Center for Healthy Minds

Center faculty Julie Poehlmann-Tynan draws parallels between children separated from incarcerated parents and parent-child separation at the U.S.-Mexico border

Center scientists have discovered that brief meditation practices work differently in the face of stress, and not all seem to be equally helpful

Center founder Richard Davidson participated in a roundtable organized by the NIH about the future of emotional well-being

The Center for Healthy Minds welcomes new faculty member Simon Goldberg, who studies the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions and explores what works in successful therapist-patient interactions

The Center and Mexico-based non-profit AtentaMente are piloting a program to improve school cultures and educators' well-being

Hosted by the Center for Healthy Minds, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison to discuss how religious leaders could more effectively work with scientists, academics and global experts on addressing environmental and social issues

A scientist from the Center for Healthy Minds has discovered a relationship between inflammation in the blood and people’s response to a depression drug

The Center for Healthy Minds partners with former NFL players for an eight-week workshop to look at how mindfulness practices might impact their lives

Findings from the Center for Healthy Minds suggest that expectant mothers' mental health may influence the white matter development in the brain of her child

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