News archive - 2010
December 7: CIHM Newsletter
The inaugural issue of the CIHM newsletter is here! To read about what's happening here at the CIHM, click here.
December 6: UW Foundation
Aaron Heller, the first recipient of the James L. Davis Memorial Graduate Support Fund, studies the neurobiology of depression to develop new therapies. Regina Lapate, the second recipient, explores how emotional awareness might help overcome negative experiences.
November 18: Big Ten Network
Office Hours, a half hour weekly talk show on the Big Ten Network, hosted by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Ken Goldstein, interviewed Richie Davidson in early November for an episode called Happy, Healthy Minds.
November 10: NBC15.com
ADHD Research Begins - CIHM Researchers will soon begin testing and developing a drug-free alternative for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and high functioning autism in children.
November 3: University of Wisconsin Foundation
A Dream Takes Shape - Center for Investigating Healthy Minds moves into its home. A dream inspired by the Dalai Lama and nurtured by philanthropist Ulco Visser found its home Monday night when Professor Richard Davidson invited guests into the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds in the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
October 26: CNN
Can meditation change your brain? Contemplative neuroscientists believe it can. Can people strengthen the brain circuits associated with happiness and positive behavior, just as we’re able to strengthen muscles with exercise?
October 2: Los Angeles Times
Fully experiencing the present: a practice for everyone, religious or not. Mindfulness, the heart of Buddhist meditation, is at the core of being able to live life as if it really matters. It has nothing to do with Buddhism. It has to do with freedom.
September 28: The New York Times
Dalai Lama Donates to Center in Wisconsin. They say money can’t buy happiness — but it can finance the research.
September 8: UW-News
Dalai Lama Trust to fund UW-Madison research on healthy minds. The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM) at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a grant from the Dalai Lama's personal trust to further its research mission. See also USA Today, UW Badger Herald and WisBusiness.com
June 22: The Diane Rehm Show
The Power of Meditation: Richard Davidson was one of three guests on The Diane Rehm Show based in Washington, DC.
May 22: Wisconsin State Journal
Dalai Lama brings out the child in us. The irony of the intellectually curious coming to the Overture Center to hear the wisdom of a spiritual elder is that the Dalai Lama remains so child-like.
May 17: Madison.com
Dalai Lama warns of being distorted by ignorance. The Dalai Lama brought his message of compassion, empathy and oneness to Madison on Sunday afternoon, mixing it with levity and tales of sibling rivalry with his brother, all while sitting crosslegged in his chair and wearing a red Wisconsin baseball cap. See the UW News and Dalai Lama website slide shows of the weekend events.
May 15: Associated Press
Scientist inspired by Dalai Lama studies happiness. After hearing about his cutting-edge research on the brain and emotions through mutual friends, the Dalai Lama invited Richard Davidson to his home in India in 1992 to pose a question.
May 14: Journal Sentinal
UW to study effects of meditation, yoga on veterans' stress. Beginning this fall, the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds will apply the tools of neuroscience - including brain imaging - in studies to determine what if any effect such contemplative practices have on veterans with symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.
April 19: UW News
Recent sightings: Yoga on Bascom: CIHM's Emma Seppala teaches yoga on Bascom Hill to UW students.
April 14: U.S. News & World Report
The Science of Workplace Happiness. Over the past several years, Richard Davidson has peered into the minds of monks, pored over brain scans, analyzed neural processes, and maybe—just maybe—discovered some of the keys to manufacturing happiness.
April 12: UW News
Public tickets for Dalai Lama event available April 17. The public is invited to attend a dialogue between His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and Richard J. Davidson, director of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conversation, "Investigating Healthy Minds," will take place at 2:15 p.m. Sunday, May 16, in the Overture Center's Capitol Theater.
March 3: UW News
The science of healthy minds brings Dalai Lama to UW-Madison. The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center will welcome His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to its public grand-opening celebration Saturday-Sunday, May 15-16.
February 26: Shrink Rap Radio
Richard J Davidson was a recent guest on www.shrinkrapradio.com where he discusses The Meditating Brain. See also transcripts from this show here.
January 4: UW News
UW-Madison happiness research featured in NOVA documentary. A PBS/NOVA documentary, This Emotional Life, on the nature of human happiness, premiering this week, featured UW-Madison professor Richard J Davidson. Davidson appears in the third episode, "Rethinking Happiness," which aired in Wisconsin on Monday, Jan. 18. The show highlights his research into the neural basis of happiness, studying patterns of brain activation in people who describe themselves as happy.
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