{"id":508,"date":"2010-04-14T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T19:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2012-05-11T17:54:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T21:54:24","slug":"a-neurologist-first-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/research\/a-neurologist-first-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"A neurologist\u2019s first blog post"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Though blog etiquette might not demand it, I think it best to start with a brief introduction to the blogger.\u00a0 I did my undergraduate work at Cornell University<\/a> in the early 1970s, and this is where I first discovered my interest in the nervous system, after attending a lecture by the famous neuroanatomist Walle Nauta<\/a> from M.I.T.\u00a0 It was also at Cornell where I was first introduced to the Transcendental Meditation technique, and got a glimpse of the research of Dr. Robert Keith Wallace. His pioneering research showed just how distinctly and profoundly the physiology changes when a person experiences transcending.\u00a0 I remember how different I felt during my first meditation, and how friends in my dorm noticed within a few days that something was different, and better, about me.<\/p>\n

In 1976, I had my first glimpse of a meditating community at Maharishi International University in Iowa at a summer educators\u2019 workshop, and then it was on to graduate school at Washington University<\/a> in St. Louis, where I received my PhD in neural science in 1980.\u00a0 After receiving my MD and going through an internship, I went to Yale New Haven Hospital for a neurology residency, and then took a position at the medical school at the State University of New York at Stony Brook as an assistant professor of Neurology. \u00a0In 1992, I moved to North Shore University Hospital as the Director of Clinical Neurophysiology, and currently I see patients with neurologic problems at ProHealth, a large multi-specialty practice here on Long Island.<\/p>\n

All along the way I\u2019ve been avidly following the research on the TM technique<\/a> and health, and I\u2019d like to use this blog to highlight some of the latest studies.\u00a0 I used to think there were a couple of good reasons to meditate, namely promotion of physical and mental health.\u00a0 Now I realize there are as many reasons to meditate as there are meditators.\u00a0 It will be fun to explore a few with you!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though blog etiquette might not demand it, I think it best to start with a brief introduction to the blogger. I did my undergraduate work at Cornell University in the early 1970s, and this is where I first discovered… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}