How Scientists Taught Mice to 'Meditate' and Reduced Their Fear

So, recently, we had a major breakthrough. We found a protocol by which we can

get awake mice to breathe slowly. In other words, whatever their normal breath is,

we could slow it down by a factor of 10 and they're fine doing that. We did that 30 minutes

a day for four weeks, okay? Like a breath practice. And we had control animals where we

did e- everything the same, except the manipulation we made did not slow down their

breathing. We then put them through a standard fear conditioning, which we did with

my colleague, Michael Fanzolo, who's one of the real gurus of fear. We measured a standard

test that put mice in a condition where they're concerned they'll receive a shock and their