December 16, 2005

In the Lab With the Dalai Lama

By LEIGH E. SCHMIDT

Even the Dalai Lama's harshest critics at the Society for Neuroscience meeting last month, in Washington, would have to concede this much: Choosing the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader to inaugurate the professional association's series on neuroscience and society certainly got people talking. Who would have thought that an announced lecture on "The Neuroscience of Meditation" would set off a protest petition gathering about 1,000 signatures, a counterpetition of support boasting nearly as many

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