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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
First edition
AuthorDaniel Goleman and Richard Davidson
LanguageEnglish
SubjectResearch on meditation
PublisherAvery Publishing
Publication date
September 5, 2017
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages336 (hardcover)
ISBN978-0399184383 (hardcover)

Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body, published in Great Britain as 'The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body',[1] is a 2017 book by science journalist Daniel Goleman and neuroscientist Richard Davidson. The book discusses research on meditation. For the book, the authors conducted a literature review of over 6,000 scientific studies on meditation, and selected the 60 that they believed met the highest methodological standards.[2]

  1. ^ Goleman, Daniel; Davidson, Richard J. (2017). The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body. Great Britain: Penguin Life. ISBN 978-0241975688.
  2. ^ Falvo, Perla Gianni; Manera, Giovanni Valeri; Zoss, Joel (2018). "Studies in Digital Heritage, Vol. 2, No. 2 , Publication date: December 2018 C onversation with Daniel Goleman about the relationship between the person viewing art and the art itself". Studies in Digital Heritage. 2 (1): 6–11. Retrieved 2 November 2019.