Host Michael Taft talks with neuroscientist and Govt Director of the Alembic, Kati Devaney about meditation, the neuroscience of meditation, predictive processing, the surprise of journey, psychedelics, and extra.
Kathryn Devaney, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and meditation practitioner, with over 20 years of meditation expertise. Kati earned her PhD in 2018, utilizing fMRI to look at consideration and default mode community perform in skilled Vipassana meditators. After finishing her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical College, Kati moved to Berkeley CA to start out The Berkeley Alembic Basis with Michael Taft and Erik Davis. Kati is at present the Govt Director of The Alembic, the Chief Science Officer of Jhourney.io, and a researcher on the UC Berkeley Heart for the Science of Psychedelics.
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