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Mario Beauregard

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Mario Beauregard's groundbreaking work on the neurobiology of mystical experience at the University of Montreal has received international media coverage. Before becoming a faculty member there, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Texas and the Montreal Neurological Institute (McGill University). Because he researched the neuroscience of consciousness, he was selected by the World Media Net to be among the "One Hundred Pioneers of the 21st Century." He lives in Montreal, Canada.

While working at the University of Montreal, Beauregard and his graduate student, Vincent Paquette, conducted a study using fMRI to examine the brains of nuns reliving mystical experiences. They found that no single spot was involved in mediating these experiences but that multiple brain regions and systems were involved. 

He has also studied the brain activity of people who are reliving near-death experiences they have previously had. He has said that this research indicates that these experiences have "triggered something at a neural level in the brain."

He has also written multiple books, including The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul, which he co-authored with Denyse O'Leary and was published in 2007.[10] He also published another book, Brain Wars: The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives, in 2012. 

In this book, he contends that the mind and brain are fundamentally distinct from one another. Among the lines of evidence he cites to support this view are the effects one's thoughts and beliefs can have on the course of diseases like cancer and Parkinson's disease.

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The Spiritual Brain

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