Wendy Suzuki

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628 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Particles of Thought · Neuroscience of Exercise · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Area 10 of the brain, right kind of behind the forehead, is enhanced in these monks.

And that makes sense because the practice of meditation is really a practice of.

Focusing and shifting your attention at will.

And that is dependent on the prefrontal cortex.

So that anatomical change makes absolute sense.

Yes.

It's both and it is powerful and it's positive and negative and that is, you know, the agency that you talked about.

That is the learning from this conversation.

You and I have agency to choose how we give our brains either the Disney World of Environments or the shoebox of environments.

Wow.

Then you get the benefits of both.

You get you get what it feels like in that impoverished area.

Yeah, exactly.

And you get that um um

that struggle to say, you know, and that realization this is not good.

This is not what is helping.

And you have this contrast now.

You get to talk to so many interesting people and such a very different and and all the perspective that you bring is a unique perspective.

Right.

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