Tag: Center for Investigating Healthy Minds

Well-being can be an elusive thing. It comes naturally to some, and completely evades others. And trying to determine how people build and process well-being on a neurological level can be difficult, but for Dr. Richard Davidson, it’s just another day at the office.

A study conducted by the UW-Madison Center for Healthy Minds (CHM) to promote social, emotional and academic skills has found that prekindergarten students who learned their mindfulness ABCs—attention, breath and body, and caring practice—earned higher marks in academic performance measures. Known as the Kindness Curriculum, the study was designed to teach children to be more… Read more »