NCCIH funding will allow Brown researchers to evaluate complementary and integrative health interventions and produce a public-facing database to support rigorous systematic reviews.
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.
A study led by Brown University researchers found that participants in a mindfulness-based blood pressure reduction program improved health behaviors that lower blood pressure.
“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.
In ‘The Mindful College Student,’ Eric Loucks, director of Brown’s Mindfulness Center, teaches essential mindfulness skills to help young adults flourish during this transition period and throughout their lifetime.
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.
Dr. Judson Brewer, an associate professor at the Brown University School of Public Health, who created a mindfulness app called Eat Right Now, told the story of a patient who routinely ate a full bag of potato chips while watching a favorite TV show with her daughter ...
A study led by Willoughby Britton, an associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown, shows the importance of defining and measuring the adverse effects of mindfulness.
I am delighted to announce that Dr. Shufang Sun has joined the Mindfulness Center and the International Health Institute as an Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
It is a great pleasure to share that Patricia Holland, BSW, MS, has been promoted to Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
The Mindfulness Center at Brown recently received an National Institutes on Aging (NIA) grant (R24AG065174) designed to foster research to reverse/remediate the effects of early life adversity (e.g. abuse, neglect, poverty, racial discrimination, etc.) in mid- and later-life, and welcome scientists to apply for pilot funding through the Reversibility Network program.
I am delighted to share that Lynn Koerbel has been appointed Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the School of Public Health.
A study led by Professor Eric Loucks, Ph.D., finds that mindfulness could reduce blood pressure by enhancing attention control, emotion regulation and self-awareness of both healthy and unhealthy habits.
Watch an excerpt, on “Mindful Politics”, from the Watson Institute Master of Public Affairs Speaker Series titled “Election Debrief with Congressman Tim Ryan.” The talk by Congressman Ryan was cosponsored by the Mindfulness Center at Brown University.
Many physicians live with significant anxiety — now more than ever — but a new study from Brown researchers suggests that app-based mindfulness training can help.
In November, Eric Loucks, director of the Mindfulness Center at the Brown University School of Public Health, and colleagues published a study in Plos One, a science journal, that put forward a possible solution to high blood pressure: an eight-week mindfulness-based program.
Eric Loucks, director of the Mindfulness Center at the Brown University School of Public Health, and colleagues published a study in Plos One, a science journal, that put forward a possible solution: an eight-week mindfulness-based program.
Mindfulness Center Director Eric Loucks spoke at the United Kingdom All-Party Parliamentary Group event "Mindfulness, Ageing Well and Older People." The event raised awareness and supporting policy for how mindfulness fosters healthy aging.
Free and open to the public, these weekly drop-in sessions are intended to support anyone interested in developing and sustaining a regular mindfulness meditation practice. This opportunity is for the anyone including the curious, former students, and seasoned practitioners.
Because mindfulness-based interventions blend multiple practices, researchers can’t always figure out how each one works, so they created a rigorously controlled study to isolate each of them and confirm that they do what is claimed.
A group of 15 researchers has published a ‘critical evaluation and prescriptive agenda’ to improve research, clinical practice and neuroscience studies of mindfulness and meditation.
With a dual mission of research and public service, the Mindfulness Center at Brown University will conduct and promote rigorous research on the health effects of interventions and work to disseminate and promote evidence-based practices.
Though it has gained popularity in the West as medically and psychologically beneficial, meditation can produce a much wider variety of outcomes, not all of them calm and relaxing, according to a new study that analyzes meditation-related challenges.