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Finding calm amid chaos: Brown mindfulness expert offers advice for election-related stress

October 23, 2024
Dr. Judson Brewer, director of research and innovation at the Mindfulness Center at the Brown University School of Public Health, shares strategies for staying calm during contentious times.
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Why should insurers cover Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction?

June 28, 2024
Brown University researchers take a deep dive into the barriers that are disincentivizing health insurers from covering the mindfulness–based health program.
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Outside the Mainstream: Applying rigor to complementary & integrative approaches to health care

April 16, 2024
NCCIH funding will allow Brown researchers to evaluate complementary and integrative health interventions and produce a public-facing database to support rigorous systematic reviews.
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Bridging health and heritage

November 22, 2023
Summit led by Mindfulness researcher Jeffrey Proulx makes shared space between mindfulness training and Indigenous cultural practice
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Humans in Public Health Podcast

Humans in Public Health: Moving the needle with mindfulness

November 16, 2023
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.
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Practicing mindfulness can help people make heart-healthy eating choices

November 2, 2023
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.
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CNBC

How to deal with anxiety during the job search, according to a psychiatrist: ‘Our brains don’t like uncertainty’

January 6, 2023
“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 ...
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U.S. News & World Report

Take the Mindful Way to Lower Blood Pressure

November 8, 2022
"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.
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For young adults, mindfulness habits for life and the promise of better mental, physical health

April 12, 2022
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.
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Announcing the Launch of The Mindful College Student Book & Online Course

March 17, 2022
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.
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NPR

The Scientific Method: How We Understand Anxiety

February 21, 2022
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.
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The New York Times

Cookies? Chips? Pizza? Here’s How to Own Your Cravings

January 10, 2022
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 ...
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New Year’s Message from Eric Loucks, Director

January 7, 2022
A video message from Mindfulness Center Director Eric B. Loucks.
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Profile: Abraham Dejene

December 1, 2021
MBSR Instructor Abraham Dejene decided to give it all up, quit his job, sell his belongings, and backpack through Southeast Asia.
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Diversity and Equity at the Mindfulness Center at Brown

November 12, 2021
The Mindfulness Center at Brown initiatives to advance diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion.
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Making mindfulness meditation more helpful starts with understanding how it can be harmful

May 18, 2021
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.
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For mindfulness programs, ‘with whom’ may be more important than ‘how’

February 16, 2021
A pair of Brown University studies on the effect of mindfulness-based meditation programs highlight the importance of the instructor and the group.
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Welcome, Dr. Shufang Sun

November 8, 2020
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.
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Welcome, Professor Patricia Holland

August 17, 2020
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.
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A Time to Reflect

June 4, 2020
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The Reversibility Network Application for Pilot Funding

June 3, 2020
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.
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Welcome, Professor Lynn Koerbel

May 13, 2020
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.
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Welcome, Professor Florence Meleo-Meyer

May 11, 2020
Florence Meleo-Meyer has received an appointment as Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
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News from SPH

It really is in your head— but how does it work?

April 24, 2020
The Mindfulness Center at Brown is working to explain why mindfulness makes us healthier.
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