NCCIH funding will allow Brown researchers to evaluate complementary and integrative health interventions and produce a public-facing database to support rigorous systematic reviews.

Summit led by Mindfulness researcher Jeffrey Proulx makes shared space between mindfulness training and Indigenous cultural practice

Director of the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, Eric Loucks' work in the areas of mindfulness-based stress reduction and heart health are demonstrating how mindfulness can improve people’s lives and change their perceptions. Megan Hall chats with Professor Loucks about his journey into this area of study and what the future holds for mindfulness.

“Our brains don’t like uncertainty,” says Judson Brewer, psychiatrist and Director of Research and Innovation at the Brown University Mindfulness Center. And the job search process is nothing if not uncertain. In his book, “Unwinding Anxiety,” Brewer outlines three steps for dealing with anxiety ― during the work search or at any other time. For anyone tackling their own anxiety, here they are ...

"If we can train people in mindfulness skills and then apply those skills to people's relationships with the things that we know influence blood pressure -- like physical activity or diet or antihypertensive medication adherence or alcohol consumption -- we might be able to boost the effects" of their prescribed blood pressure control plan, said researcher Eric Loucks, director of the Mindfulness Center at Brown University.

Based on the popular Mindfulness-Based College (MBC) program at Brown University, this book offers powerful skills to increase academic success and boost mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional health—now and for a lifetime.

In this month's installment of the Scientific Method, NPR talks about anxiety and the science behind it with Jud Brewer of the Brown University School of Public Health.