Clifford is an Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Mind
and Brain and M.I.N.D. Institute at the University of California at
Davis. He received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine in 1999 studying the
electrophysiology of interhemispheric visuomotor integration. Dr.
Saron has had a long-standing interest in behavioral and brain
effects of meditation practice. He has been a frequent faculty
member at the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute and is
currently a member of the Mind and Life Institute's Program and
Research Council. In the early 1990's he was centrally involved,
along with Francisco Varela, Alan Wallace and Richard Davidson
among others in a field research project investigating Tibetan
Buddhist mind training under the auspices of the Private Office of
H.H. the Dalai Lama and Mind and Life.
Currently, in collaboration with a large consortium of scientists
and researchers at UC Davis and elsewhere he is Principal
Investigator of the Shamatha Project, conceived with and taught
by Alan Wallace.
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