News: Well-Being In Children
![Mother and Center staff with infant for Baby Brain and Behavior Project](/assets/images-general/_horizontalHalf/baby_brain_fMRI-WEB.jpg)
Center scientists examine how brain develops in first two years of life
![Photo of the Education Building at UW-Madison by Jeff Miller via University Communications at UW-Madison](/assets/images-news/_horizontalHalf/Education-Building-WEB.jpg)
A generous gift will enable the Center for Healthy Minds and UW–Madison School of Education to study child development and well-being
![Young kids participate in mindful movement as part of Kindness Curriculum](/assets/images-general/_horizontalHalf/Kindness-Curriculum-Classroom-web.jpg)
Over the course of 12 weeks, twice a week, prekindergarten students learned their ABCs - attention, breath and body and caring practice
![Photo of child's eye by David Gabriel Fischer via Flickr](/assets/images-news/_horizontalHalf/Eye-WEB.jpg)
The Center received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, in partnership with the Madison Metropolitan School District, to study well-being and mindfulness-based skills in the classroom
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Scientists at the Center are exploring how stressors like poverty, neglect and physical abuse experienced in early life may alter critical areas of the brain later in life
![Photo of child playing a video game by Chapendra from Flickr](/assets/images-news/_horizontalHalf/Child-playing-video-game-WEB.jpg)
Can we teach positive qualities of mind through video games?