Mario Beauregard, Ph.D.

Mario Beauregard is an associate professor in the Departments of Radiology and Psychology at the Université de Montréal (Canada), where he earned his PhD in neuroscience. He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Texas Medical School and McGill University. Beauregard's research concerns the neural substrate underlying self-consciousness, volition, and emotion regulation with the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and multichannel EEG. Other major research interests involve the mind-brain question and the neurobiology of spiritual transformation.