Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att

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As a result of the bipolar disorder spectrum, two major neurological deficits have been observed: (1) there is a lack of awareness of one's own body (interoception); and (2) there is a lack of connection between the limbic system and the parietal region. The combination of talk therapy with lithium therapy, for example, would be a good treatment ap... See more