Center for Healthy Minds

Lying, fighting with others and acting disobediently are behaviors sometimes seen in preschool classrooms, but what sets the brains of children who behave this way apart from those who don’t?

Empathy with both positive and negative emotions may be equally effective in inspiring altruism

Over the course of 12 weeks, twice a week, prekindergarten students learned their ABCs - attention, breath and body and caring practice

Research suggests breath counting may be one route to improving attention and well-being

Scientists at the Center are exploring how stressors like poverty, neglect and physical abuse experienced in early life may alter critical areas of the brain later in life

Research suggests people who experience chronic marital stress are less able to savor positive experiences – a hallmark of depression