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News: Neuroscience
Research Findings
Study: Eye Contact Triggers Threat Signals in Autistic Children’s Brains
March 7, 2005
Center Founder Richard Davidson is senior author of a study revealing the over-activation of the brain's emotion processing center associated with negative feelings in children with autism
Mind, Brain and Emotion
Study: Meditation Changes the Brain’s Electrical Pattern
October 16, 2004
Study led by Center Founder Richard Davidson comparing brain-oscillation patterns shows higher frequency in brains of long-term Buddhist meditation practitioners than novice students in both meditative and resting states.
Funding Announcements
$10.7 Million Grant to Help Unlock What Regulates Emotion
February 19, 2004
Center for Healthy Minds Founder Richard Davidson to direct research on emotional resiliency under 5-year National Institutes of Mental Health grant awarded to group of UW–Madison researchers
Research Findings
Brain Images Reveal Effects of Antidepressants
February 6, 2003
Center Founder Richard Davidson is co-author of a study on brain activity in clinically depressed individuals that could be used to predetermine the effectiveness of antideppressants
Research Findings
Meditation Produces Positive Changes in the Brain
February 6, 2003
Center Founder Richard Davidson leads study that finds lasting changes in brain, immune system due to participation in short mindfulness meditation program
Neuroscience
Reading the Mind: New Lab Sharpens Brain Imagery
March 30, 2001
Richard Davidson to direct W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison