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Study to launch: Can Smartphone-based meditation training ease adolescent depression?
July 27, 2023

Can a free smartphone-based meditation app could help reduce adolescent depression?

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Center for Healthy Minds at UW–Madison to launch research on connection between asthma and Alzheimer’s disease
June 28, 2023

Chronic inflammatory diseases can compromise brain health and increase dementia risk, but why and how that happens is a lingering scientific puzzle. A multi-disciplinary team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers is set to launch a five-year investigation into this question.

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Center for Healthy Minds will research machine learning predictions of well-being
May 22, 2023

Researchers are working on one possible solution that leverages artificial intelligence to deliver personalized well-being content through a person’s mobile device when they need it most.

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Q&A: Catching Up with the McNair-Center for Healthy Minds Scholars
May 12, 2023

We recently caught up with scholars Augusta Ike and Godwill Oke, who participated in the McNair-Center for Healthy Minds Scholars Program.

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'What’s the Big Idea?' Richard Davidson Speaks at Investiture Ceremony
April 13, 2023

Center for Healthy Minds Founder and Director Richard Davidson Speaks at UW–Madison Chancellor's Investiture in April 2023.

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For Stressed-out Grad Students, Mindfulness Makes Big Difference
March 22, 2023

While recent studies and polls indicate the nation is in the midst of a mental health crisis, the situation in academia is even more grim: Within the high-stress, high-pressure, often socially isolated world of advanced education, graduate students experience depression and anxiety at six times the rate of the general population.