Center for Healthy Minds

Assessing how mindfulness-based training works in classrooms, Center researchers are developing programs for students and children to learn more about how an integrated approach can promote well-being in schools.

Center scientists are evaluating and comparing the effectiveness of brief trainings to buffer against the negative effects that acute stress has on behavior and cognitive abilities.

Center researchers investigated whether compassion – the feeling of caring for and wanting to help others who are suffering – could be cultivated through meditation training using an online intervention.

Can a mindfulness intervention impact engineering graduate students' creativity and well-being?

Mindfulness shows promise for improving health, but unbiased tests, led by Center researchers, are needed.

Our researchers are developing and measuring the impact of video games to help children improve attention and develop pro-social behavior.

Center researchers are evaluating a mindfulness-based Kindness Curriculum in promoting attention, emotion regulation and pro-social behavior in children.

Center experts are researching the impact of a mindful parenting program to help address stressors and demands of parenting as well as promote positive and supportive parent-child interactions.

Center scientists are exploring the bodily changes associated with a specific type of yoga in individuals on the autism spectrum.

Center researchers are exploring how to improve the lives of veterans by expanding the range of treatments available for PTSD and learning more about the brain mechanisms involved in PTSD and its treatment.