Written by Svetlana Kim.
James R. Doty, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University and the Founder and Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University School of Medicine of which the Dalai Lama is the founding benefactor. As Director of CCARE, he has collaborated on a number of research projects focused on compassion and altruism including the use of neuro-economic models to asses altruism, use of the CCARE developed compassion cultivation training in individuals and its effect, assessment of compassionate and altruistic judgement utilizing implanted brain electrodes and the use of optogenetic techniques to assess nurturing pathways in rodents.
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