News: Well-Being In Children

Youth with bipolar depression responded better to an antipsychotic medicine if they had increased markers of inflammation in their blood

A research team at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of California, Irvine, designed a video game to improve mindfulness and found that playing the game leads to changes in the brain areas underlying attention.

The 25th Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion was held in April 2019. We review the past 25 years of advances in the field of affective neuroscience

New research points to evidence of increased cognitive complexity as children grow up that effects prosocial behavior

Faculty member Julie Poehlmann-Tynan explores the impacts of parent-child separation

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