David Yaden
Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
David B. Yaden, PhD is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focus is on the psychology and psychopharmacology of life-changing experiences. Specifically, he is interested in understanding how some inner experiences, or altered states of consciousness, can result in long-term changes to well-being.
He wrote an article "The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-Transcendent Experience in Space Flight," that grounds the overview effect in contemporary scientific research and he recently wrote a book on the past, present, and future of the scientific study of altered states of consciousness, The Varieties of Spiritual Experience.
David’s scientific and scholarly work has been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, and NPR.