Exploring the Power of Suggestion: An Interview with Amir Raz

Interview with Amir Raz at the 2017 Summer Institute on Buddhism and Science, Putting the Buddhism/Science Dialogue on a New Footing, hosted by the Mangalam Research Center from July 17-26, 2017.

Professor Amir Raz, Canada Research Chair in the Faculty of
Medicine at McGill University, Canada, is a world leader in
unlocking the brain substrates of attention and consciousness. Dr.
Raz is Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology & Neurosurgery, and
Psychology; Senior Investigator in the Lady Davis Institute for
Medical Research of the Jewish General Hospital; and a member of the Montreal Neurological Institute. He heads both the Cognitive
Neuroscience Laboratory at McGill University and the Clinical
Neuroscience and Applied Cognition Laboratory at the Institute for
Community and Family Psychiatry.

In this interview, he discusses neuroscience, the power of suggestion and suggestibility, placebos, and the brain.

This project was made possible through the generous support of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.