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News: Mind, Brain And Emotion
Research Findings
Early Stress May Sensitize Girls’ Brains for Later Anxiety
November 11, 2012
High levels of family stress in infancy are linked to differences in everyday brain function and anxiety in teenage girls
Research Findings
A Wandering Mind Reveals Mental Processes and Priorities
March 15, 2012
What are the costs when our minds wander?
Research Findings
Stress, Anxiety Both Boon and Bane to Brain
January 18, 2011
Stress from immediate threats may negatively affect our ability for more complex thinking
Contemplative Studies
Can Love Change Your Mind? New Project Explores Neuroscience of ‘Positive Qualities’
September 10, 2008
Grant from Fetzer Institute allows Davidson's lab to explore the impact of love, other positive qualities on the brain
Learning Well-Being
Study Shows Compassion Meditation Changes the Brain
March 25, 2008
Brain scans of practicing monks reveal impact on circuits used to detect emotions and feelings and others
Mind, Brain and Emotion
Clinical Depression Linked to Abnormal Emotional Brain Circuits
August 15, 2007
Center Founder Richard Davidson is senior author on a study examining differences in the neural circuits responsible for emotional regulation in depressed individuals