[audio mp3="https://www.christianmeditationcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/20240416-colloquy-with-richie-davidson-v4.mp3"][/audio] Paul Massari interviews Neuroscientist, Richard Davidson, PhD. If you're one of the 32 percent of US adults who experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression last year, your doctor or mental health care provider may have recommended you learn meditation to help manage your stress. But how exactly does this age-old practice change the brain? Neuroscientist Richard Davidson, PhD '76, the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, discusses his decades of research on meditation—enabled in part by a collaboration with the Dalai Lama—and dispels myths about how it works and when, where, and how it can be done.