Grunnkurs i Acem-meditasjon
- Dato
- torsdag 10. september 2026, 18:30
- Sted
- Sporveisgata 37, Oslo
Lege og hjerneforsker. Professor i medisin ved Universitetet i Oslo. Redaktør for et kommende temanummer av tidsskriftet Dyade om psykedelika. Han har tidligere engasjert seg i offentlig debatt om cannabis. Han har også lang erfaring med å praktisere og undervise i Acem-meditasjon.
Svend Davanger, Erik Ekker Solberg and Vilde Haakensen look at what recent meditation research says when it moves from laboratory experiments to everyday stress.
Marcus Raichle interviewed by Svend Davanger
Mind-wandering, brain and meditation
There are three main meditation-related areas in the brain, according to a new meta-analysis study: Insula, the prefrontal cortex, and the anterior cingulate cortex. All of these are located in the front half of the brain, and they seem to be involved irrespective of the type of meditation used.
The prefrontal cortex has expanded rapidly in the later stages of human development.
A small but growing field of research at the junctions between biology, psychology and medicine focuses on what happens in the brain during meditation.