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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (2017) – Robert M. Sapolsky
Stumbling on Happiness (2006) – Daniel Gilbert

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Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state (2012) – Gaëlle Desbordes and others
Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, and Self-Transcendence (S-ART): A Framework for Understanding the Neurobiological Mechanisms of Mindfulness (2012) – David R. Vago and David Silbersweig
Case Study of Ecstatic Meditation: fMRI and EEG Evidence of Self-Stimulating a Reward System (2013) – Michael R. Hagerty, Julian Isaacs, Leigh Brasington and others
The Human Default Consciousness and Its Disruption: Insights From an EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation (2019) – Paul Dennison
Speaker–listener Neural Coupling Underlies Successful Communication (2010) – Greg J. Stephens, Lauren J. Silbert, and Uri Hasson
Impact of meditation training on the default mode network during a restful state (2013) – Véronique A. Taylor and others
Mind Wandering and Attention During Focused Meditation: A Fine-Grained Temporal Analysis of Fluctuating Cognitive States (2012) – Wendy Hasenkamp, Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, Erica Duncan, and Lawrence W. Barsalou
Attending to the Present: Mindfulness Meditation Reveals Distinct Neural Modes of Self-Reference (2007) – Norman A. S. Farb, Zindel V. Segal, Helen S. Mayberg, Jim Bean, Deborah McKeon and others
Inter-Brain Synchronization in the Practice of Tibetan Monastic Debate (2018) – Marieke K. van Vugt, Joshua Pollock, Bryce Johnson, Kalden Gyatso, Ngawang Norbu and others
Brain Mechanisms Supporting the Modulation of Pain by Mindfulness Meditation (2011) – Fadel Zeidan, Katherine T. Martucci, Robert A. Kraft, Nakia S. Gordon, John G. McHaffie and others
Mindfulness Practice Leads to Increases in Regional Brain Gray Matter Density (2011) – Britta K. Hölzel, James Carmody, Mark Vangel, Christina Congleton, Sita M. Yerramsetti and others
BrainAGE and Regional Volumetric Analysis of a Buddhist Monk: A Longitudinal MRI Case Study (2020) – Nagesh Adluru, Cole Korponay, Derek Norton, Robin I. Goldman, and Richard J. Davidson
The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Adult Personality: Evidence From the United States, Europe, and a Large-Scale Natural Experiment (2021) – Ted Schwaba, Wiebke Bleidorn, Christopher J. Hopwood, Jochen E. Gebauer, Peter J. Rentfrow and others
Picturing Our Thoughts (2008) – Jonah Lehrer
Symbolic Gestures and Spoken Language Are Processed by a Common Neural System (2009) – Jian Xu, Patrick J. Gannon, Karen Emmorey, Jason F. Smith, and Allen R. Braun
He Handles Gold and Silver (2016)

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Audio/Video (13)

Conscious Ants and Human Hives (2017) – Peter Watts
We don’t just feel emotions. We make them. (2019) – Lisa Feldman Barrett and Ezra Klein
Why Adults Lose the ‘Beginner’s Mind’ (2021) – Alison Gopnik and Ezra Klein
Passing As Myself (2013) – Amy Cuddy
Depression (2009) – Robert M. Sapolsky
In Conversation With Associate Professor Judson Brewer (2020) – Shannon Harvey
How I Think About Love (2019) – Alison Gopnik and Ezra Klein
Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy (2015) – Evan Thompson
Time Is Way Weirder Than You Think (2022) – Dean Buonomano
This is Your Brain on Pollution (2021) – Stephen J. Dubner
Burden of Proof (2018) – Malcolm Gladwell
How Meditation Can Reshape Our Brains (2011) – Sara Lazar
How the Mind Stops (2018) – Ajahn Brahm

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