Rudy Tanzi - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Mon, 12 Feb 2018 22:17:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png Rudy Tanzi - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 The Best Strategy to Combat Aging https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-best-strategy-to-combat-aging/ Mon, 12 Feb 2018 22:16:52 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40750 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD When people think about growing old, they blame the passage of time—the years roll by, and the body stops looking younger year by year. But the latest science disputes this view. A person ages because the cells in their body age, and cells live only in […]

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]]> The “New Old Age” Just Got Better https://choprafoundation.org/articles/the-new-old-age-just-got-better/ Mon, 08 May 2017 21:56:19 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40521 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD   For at least two decades we’ve been living with a drastic revision of growing old. What is now dubbed the “old old age” prevailed for centuries; it was a set of beliefs that turned the aging process into inevitable decline physically and mentally. After a lifetime […]

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]]> Good News: You Aren’t a Biological Robot https://choprafoundation.org/articles/good-news-you-arent-a-biological-robot/ Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:00:34 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40312 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD We live in a golden age for neuroscience, and new findings about the brain emerge almost by the month. with huge government backing, one foresees the day, which could be quite soon, when every significant region of the brain is correlated with all the things we […]

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]]> The Health Benefits of Meditation and Vacation https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/the-health-benefits-of-meditation-and-vacation/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:11:43 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40275 The systems biology research study indicates that meditation provides a clear and quantifiable change in how the human body functions, appearing to provide relief for the immune system, and ease the daily stress of the body constantly trying to protect itself.   View the Study Systems biology research study reveals benefits of vacation and meditation […]

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]]> Why a Mental Universe Is the “Real” Reality https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/why-a-mental-universe-is-the-real-reality/ Mon, 30 Nov 2015 01:18:53 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=40024 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Menas Kafatos, PhD, Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, Rudolph Tanzi, PhD                 Science concerns itself with reality, in the form of “real particles”, “real organisms”, and the “real universe”. The tacit assumption is that science can answer the question of reality itself. If this wasn’t the […]

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]]> Mindful Evolution: Can You Guide What Your Genes Are Doing? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/mindful-evolution-can-you-guide-what-your-genes-are-doing/ Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:42:17 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39616 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD   Human beings are unique in the scenario of life on Earth–that much is obvious. We are guided by awareness, and to implement our wishes, dreams, and inventions, the higher brain (chiefly the cerebral cortex) has evolved to extraordinary proportions. Although classical Darwinism is mindless, and […]

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]]> Share Your Thoughts https://choprafoundation.org/people/share-your-thoughts/ Fri, 15 May 2015 21:20:05 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39517 Thank you for being a part of The Chopra Foundation community.  We love to learn more about you!  Would you consider taking this brief survey about Deepak Chopra and Rudy Tanzi and what you like to read. http://bit.ly/DeepakSurvey   Thank you!

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]]> TIME 100 PIONEERS – RUDY TANZI https://choprafoundation.org/other/time-100-pioneers-rudy-tanzi/ Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:19:45 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39495 Congrats to Rudy Tanzi who was recognized by TIME 100 Pioneers.  Rudy is Co Chairman of the foundation’s SBTI research study and 2012 Recipient of the Rustum Roy Spirit Award acknowledged at Sages and Scientists Symposium 2012. Alzheimer’s pioneer I’m a child of Alzheimer’s, and I know firsthand how scary it is to watch the […]

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]]> Why Does Richard Dawkins Keep Doing Me Favors? https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/why-does-richard-dawkins-keep-doing-me-favors/ Fri, 10 Apr 2015 20:04:23 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39475 By Deepak Chopra, MD In a recent article on his website, Richard Dawkins spontaneously erupted, even though he and I haven’t had contact for many months. We debated once in Mexico City, and he erupted there, too. The ideas I put forth, such as the possibility that we live in a conscious universe, bring out […]

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]]> Remember Me – Support Cure Alzheimer's Fund Research https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/remember-me-support-cure-alzheimers-fund-research/ Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:06:48 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39292 “The Voice” and the Neuroscientist Team Up to Fight Alzheimer’s.  After meeting in a television studio this unlikely pair has teamed up with Cure Alzheimer’s Fund for a worthy cause: Campaign Remember Me.  Proceeds from sales of the song and direct donations will support innovative research into the causes of the disease and the development of effective […]

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]]> Getting Real About Brain Science – A Challenge to the Current Model (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/health/getting-real-about-brain-science-a-challenge-to-the-current-model-part-2/ Mon, 08 Sep 2014 21:00:47 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39032 By Deepak Chopra, MD, Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, Menas C. Kafatos, PhD, and Rudolph E. Tanzi, Phd   Brain research could someday hit a dead end if we do not address the basic question of what the brain truly is. Assuming that we know what the brain is won’t work—not forever. In the first part of this series the assumptions of […]

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]]> Radical Well being: Where We Need to Go (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/health/radical-well-being-where-we-need-to-go-part-2/ Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:01:11 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38486   By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD     There are two reasons why radical well being hasn’t captured the imagination of the general public. As we saw in the first part, people all too often let their health go and then depend on the standard medical approach of drugs and surgery. […]

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]]> Radical Well-Being: Where We Need to Go https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/radical-well-being-where-we-need-to-go/ Mon, 17 Feb 2014 18:38:22 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38462 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD As far as our health goes, America is about a little of this and a lot of that. The little is self-care, the lot is drugs and surgery. Thirty years after a mind-body revolution took place in medicine and fifty years after the Surgeon General launched […]

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]]> The Best New Year’s Resolution: Be Good To Your Genes https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-best-new-years-resolution-be-good-to-your-genes/ https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-best-new-years-resolution-be-good-to-your-genes/#respond Sun, 05 Jan 2014 06:00:31 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38141 By Deepak Chopra, MD and Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D. Image: hiddenlighthouse The New Year occasions all kinds of resolutions (which only 8% of people keep, according to Forbes magazine), but almost no one, I imagine, resolves to improve the function of their genes. The fact that this is even possible sounds mystifying, since the specific genes […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/health/the-best-new-years-resolution-be-good-to-your-genes/feed/ 0 “What Is Consciousness & Where Is It?” – a panel conversation recorded at Science and Nonduality Conference 2013 with Rudolph Tanzi, Menas Kafatos and Lothar Schäfer facilitated by Deepak Chopra https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/what-is-consciousness-where-is-it-a-panel-conversation-recorded-at-science-and-nonduality-conference-2013-with-rudolph-tanzi-menas-kafatos-and-lothar-schafer-facilitated-by-deepak-chopra/ https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/what-is-consciousness-where-is-it-a-panel-conversation-recorded-at-science-and-nonduality-conference-2013-with-rudolph-tanzi-menas-kafatos-and-lothar-schafer-facilitated-by-deepak-chopra/#respond Thu, 14 Nov 2013 18:30:22 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37991   [youtube]http://youtu.be/scI9ZFImN8o[/youtube] What is the fundamental activity in the universe? Although neuroscience has made enormous progress in looking at the brain correlates of subjective and objective experience, there is still no theory on how we experience mental or perceptual reality. Where our memories are stored? Is there a scientifically viable way to explain consciousness? Does […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/what-is-consciousness-where-is-it-a-panel-conversation-recorded-at-science-and-nonduality-conference-2013-with-rudolph-tanzi-menas-kafatos-and-lothar-schafer-facilitated-by-deepak-chopra/feed/ 0 Thinking Outside the (Skull) Box – Part 7 https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-7/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-7/#respond Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:26:13 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37888 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-7/feed/ 0 Thinking Outside the (Skull) Box – Part 6 https://choprafoundation.org/sagesscientists/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-6/ https://choprafoundation.org/sagesscientists/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-6/#respond Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:05:28 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37829 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/sagesscientists/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-6/feed/ 0 Thinking Outside the (Skull) Box – Part 5 https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-5/ https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-5/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:59:56 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37816 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-5/feed/ 0 Thinking Outside the (Skull) Box – Part Four https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-four/ https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-four/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:30:46 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37767 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-four/feed/ 0 Thinking Outside the (Skull) Box – Part Three https://choprafoundation.org/sagesscientists/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-three/ https://choprafoundation.org/sagesscientists/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-three/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2013 00:01:59 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37758 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/sagesscientists/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-three/feed/ 0 Thinking Outside the (Skull) Box, Part 2 https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-2/ https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-2/#respond Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:27:34 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37753 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-2/feed/ 0 Thinking Outside the (Skull) Box, Part 1 https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-1/ https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-1/#respond Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:23:10 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37750   By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/thinking-outside-the-skull-box-part-1/feed/ 0 Can the Truth Come Back With a Capital “T”? (Part 4) https://choprafoundation.org/articles/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t-part-4/ https://choprafoundation.org/articles/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t-part-4/#respond Mon, 05 Aug 2013 20:05:09 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37483 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/articles/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t-part-4/feed/ 0 Can the Truth Come Back with a Capital “T”? – Part 2 https://choprafoundation.org/articles/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t-part-2/ https://choprafoundation.org/articles/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t-part-2/#respond Mon, 22 Jul 2013 20:50:49 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37450 Can the Truth Come Back With a Capital “T”? (Part 2) By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/articles/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t-part-2/feed/ 0 Can the Truth Come Back With a Capital “T”? https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t/ https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2013 20:48:25 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=37445 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor in Computational Physics, Chapman University, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) The modern world was created with […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/science-consciousness/can-the-truth-come-back-with-a-capital-t/feed/ 0 Super Brain with Rudy Tanzi https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/super-brain-with-rudy-tanzi/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/super-brain-with-rudy-tanzi/#respond Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:27:02 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=36146 PBS hosts Rudy Tanzi, recipient of the 2012 Chopra Foundation’s Rustum Roy Spirit Award.  The program explores new discoveries in neuroscience that maximize the potential of the human brain in practical and actional ways and discusses Rudy and Deepak’s new book, Super Brain. Check your local listings. New York Times’ Bestseller: Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/super-brain-with-rudy-tanzi/feed/ 0 Five Myths to Dispel About Your Brain https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/five-myths-to-dispel-about-your-brain/ https://choprafoundation.org/consciousness/five-myths-to-dispel-about-your-brain/#respond Wed, 07 Nov 2012 02:42:37 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=35953 By Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., is the Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).  How many of us grew up believing that the brain we are born with is the brain we get for the rest […]

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