The Therapeutic Neuroscience Lab builds on the foundational work of the Center for Mindfulness by bringing a new team of scientists to tackle the neurobiological underpinnings of how mindfulness affects the mind and related behaviors.

Using scientific tools including fMRI, EEG, and mobile device enabled experience sampling, our research is focused on developing and improving evidence-based mindfulness treatments grounded in biological mechanisms and optimized for personalized benefit.

"As an addiction psychiatrist, I work everyday with people who are suffering. Yet the current tools that we have to help people who are struggling with disorders related to the mind, whether depression, anxiety, addiction or everyday stress often miss the mark or fall short.

We are at a unique time in history where mental skills such as mindfulness are becoming commonplace. Mindfulness training is accessible to more and more people. And importantly, mindfulness is meeting with the modern age. We now have tools that can be used to map the mind, helping us understand how it works.

At the Therapeutic Neuroscience Lab, we now have the tools to study how mindfulness changes the brain. And we can use these to not only understand the mind, but importantly, to improve our array of treatments to decrease suffering and improve the lives of many."

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