Center for Healthy Minds

Can video games teach prosocial skills such as empathy? A new study from the Center for Healthy Minds suggests that it's possible.

In one of the largest studies to date on the topic, research from the Center for Healthy Minds suggests that meditation affects the brains of long-term meditators and novices differently

Two weeks of compassion meditation training may reduce distress and improve a person’s ability to look at others who are suffering

Center for Healthy Minds professor Julie Poehlmann-Tynan has received funding to improve outcomes for children's visits with their incarcerated parents

A new research project will address what experiences affect brain development during the first two years of life for disadvantaged children.

A new course, piloted in conjunction with the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Virginia and Pennsylvania State University, aims to integrate extracurricular learning experiences with intellectual topics in the classroom

New research suggests that expectant mothers' mental health symptoms during pregnancy may affect their infants' brain development

Richard Davidson shares the latest research on why experience matters at the 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Austin, Texas

Center researchers are investigating cross-talk between the brain and lungs of people with asthma to understand how psychological stress can make asthma worse

A new study will bring a better scientific understanding of the unique stressors facing police officers