Ancient Wisdom Practices Can Help You Thrive This Semester
September 9, 2026
Research shows ancient wisdom practices teach balance during student life. Learn More
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Center for Healthy Minds Shares Crucial Findings of No Symptom Worsening Following Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
August 20, 2026
Researchers have released findings of no evidence that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) increased a risk of symptom worsening, in a... Learn More >
Latest CHM Study Aims to End the Trial and Error of Mental Health Care
August 19, 2026
What if there were a more timely, nimble and accurate way to measure people’s mental wellbeing to understand when treatment starts working and for... Learn More >
Community Wisdom is Transforming Wellbeing Initiatives and Research
June 24, 2026
Collaborations between Wisconsin community members and Center for Healthy Minds highlight the power of initiatives and research grounded in trust,... Learn More >
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The beginnings and evolution of brain imaging at the Waisman Center
August 11, 2023
Did you know Richard Davidson was instrumental in starting a brain imaging lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison? ? Learn about the history now. Learn More
How mental health disintegrates during extreme heat
August 9, 2023
Psychiatrist Dr. Charles Raison, Affiliated Faculty at the Center for Healthy Minds, weighs in how depression and extreme heat may be connected. ? Learn More
Protracted hot weather can make people depressed
August 9, 2023
The correlation between heat and mental health is only beginning to be measured. [Photo credit: Dreamstime/TNS] Learn More
Study to launch: Can Smartphone-based meditation training ease adolescent depression?
July 27, 2023
Can a free smartphone-based meditation app could help reduce adolescent depression? Learn More >
Well-being can be learned
July 27, 2023
Did you know Richard J. Davidson meditates "every single day" for about 45 minutes? Dig into this Q&A with Richie, Founder and Director of The... Learn More
Center for Healthy Minds at UW–Madison to launch research on connection between asthma and Alzheimer’s disease
June 29, 2023
Chronic inflammatory diseases can compromise brain health and increase dementia risk, but why and how that happens is a lingering scientific... Learn More >
A Slight Change of Plans: “A Meditation Scientist Changes My Mind”
June 19, 2023
After a life-changing experience in India, Dr. Richard Davidson tried to convince his Harvard professors to let him study the science of... Learn More
Spirituality, global warming, and grief: How clergy can help tackle climate anxiety
June 16, 2023
A growing number of spiritual leaders believe they have a vital role to play shepherding people toward action. (Photo credit: Clive Gee/ PA Images... Learn More
Blue Sky Podcast: Richard Davidson on the Neuroscience of Well-Being and Human Flourishing
June 15, 2023
Like most neuroscientists, until a little more than thirty years ago, Dr. Richard “Richie'' researched and studied things that go wrong with the... Learn More
Can Mindfulness Help with Injury Recovery? We Asked the Experts.
June 15, 2023
We know meditation and visualization exercises benefit our mental health. Could they also support our physical bodies? As @Outside Magazine... Learn More
Hidden Brain Podcast: Seeking Serenity Part 2
June 8, 2023
In the second part of the series on the science of meditation, Richard Davidson continues his endeavor to unite seemingly opposite ways of... Learn More
University of the Air: "Education and Well-Being"
June 6, 2023
What are the keys to well-being, and what is the difference between well-being and happiness? Richard Davidson, professor of psychology and... Learn More