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How Mindfulness Changes the Brain
The Harvard Business Review outlines key research on the neural mechanisms underlying meditation. Read More 
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Richie Davidson is Stalking the Meditating Brain
See current studies underway at Davidson's Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. Read More
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Rewiring Your Emotions
Think you're destined to respond the same way emotionally to the same old triggers? Not necessarily so, says Sharon Begley. With a little mind training, you can chart new pathways. Read More
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Free the Mind Now Streaming on Netflix
The film chronicles groundbreaking brain research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Read More
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This is your brain on Internet
Next year, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will include "Internet Addiction Disorder." A recent Newsweek article takes an in-depth look at research surrounding our digital habits and how they effect our well being. Read More
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Study: Mindful meditation tied to healthy brain changes
Yet another study is suggesting that just a few hours of meditation training may change your brain—this time its white matter—for the better. Read More
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Meditators make more rational, less emotional business decisions
Imagine that you and a stranger are participating in a psychology study. The experimenter gives the stranger $20. “Divide this money between you and your partner,” the experimenter tells the stranger. “You can keep any amount for yourself, and give any amount to your partner. But your partner gets to… Read More
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Including both students & teachers
Social and emotional learning (SEL) involves the development of the fundamental skills required to understand and manage oneself, and one’s relationships. Supported by research and theory in a variety of fields including education, positive and developmental psychology, cognitive behavioral theory, systems theory, and neuroscience, the SEL framework can be viewed… Read More
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Violent Video Games Inhibit the Compassion Instinct
A study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology provides more evidence that violent video games desensitize players to violence, and makes them more violent in real life. This is not the first study to report such an effect; the evidence has been steadily accumulating over the last decade. But this study… Read More
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Waking Up to Mindfulness
Ten years ago last March, I decided to seek help for my mind. It was near the beginning of a third (and most crippling) episode of anxiety and depression, and I realized that whatever the outer circumstances behind my despair, the resolution had to come from within. Swamped by distressing… Read More
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