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Henry Vyner is a physician, psychiatrist and cultural anthropologist. He studied medicine and psychiatry at the University of Maryland and anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Early in his career he researched the psychological effects of ionizing radiation on soldiers who took part in atmospheric nuclear weapons tests between 1946 and 1962, describing a delayed-onset, PTSD-like response to radiation exposure. He went on to direct medical research at the Radiation Research Institute in Berkeley. His book Invisible Trauma: The Psychosocial Effects of Invisible Environmental Contaminants (1988) is still cited in research on environmental contamination and mental health.
For nearly three decades he has studied the healthy human mind through interviews with Tibetan Buddhist lamas in the Himalayas, and he is an adjunct professor at Tribhuvan University in Nepal. His book The Healthy Mind: Mindfulness, True Self and the Stream of Consciousness was published by Routledge in 2018.
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