Affiliated organizations
The field of contemplative neuroscience gains momentum not only through the research conducted at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, but also through the collaborative and combined research of esteemed programs based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as at other institutions and organizations located across the country and around the world.
- UW Integrative Medicine
- UW Health Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program
- UMass Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society
- Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
- UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
- Emory University Contemplative Studies
- Brown University Department of Religious Studies
- University of Pennsylvania -The Mind-Body Research Consortium
- Mind and Life Institute
UW Integrative Medicine
Integrative Medicine is healing-oriented. It honors the whole person – body, mind, spirit, and lifestyle – and takes into account a person’s interconnections with other people, communities, and the environment. Integrative Medicine emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and makes use of appropriate therapies, both conventional and alternative.
UW Health Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program
The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program is designed to introduce mindfulness meditation practice as a way of reducing stress and developing greater balance, control and fuller participation in your life. Mindfulness is a way of learning to relate directly to whatever is happening in your life, including the challenges of stress, pain, illness and everyday demands.
UMass Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society
The Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (CFM) was established in 1995 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. The Center is a natural outgrowth of the acclaimed Stress Reduction Clinic founded in 1979 at the UMass Medical School. Under the leadership of Saki Santorelli, EdD, the Center serves a broad international constituency and resides within the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Medicine.
Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, is an innovative initiative of the Stanford School of Medicine within the Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences that will employ the highest standards of scientific inquiry to investigate compassion and altruism.
UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center
The MARC mission is to foster mindful awareness across the lifespan through education and research to promote well-being and a more compassionate society.
Emory University Contemplative Studies
Contemplative Studies initiative combines scientific and humanistic research to measure and assess contemplative practices in relation to preventive healthcare
Brown University Department of Religious Studies
The Department of Religious Studies at Brown University provides students with an understanding of diverse religious traditions, an exposure to a variety of approaches employed within the academic study of religion, as well as an opportunity to explore diverse intellectual, social-theoretical, and ethical issues that arise when one considers the various manifestation of religion in human affairs. While the graduate program in religious studies, with select areas of concentrated strength, is one of the finest in the world, the undergraduate program is broad and creative, serving a large number of students both inside and outside the concentration.
University of Pennsylvania - The Mind-Body Research Consortium
The Mind-Body Research Consortium is a multi-institution, multi-investigator, collaborative group of psychologists, medical professionals, neuroscientists, clinicians, contemplative practitioners and teachers, and 'contemplative practices-inspired' intervention specialists who aim to better understand the basic cognitive and affective changes that occur during contemplative mind-body interventions.
Mind and Life Institute
The Mind and Life Institute is dedicated to fostering dialogue and research at the highest possible level between modern science and the great living contemplative traditions, especially Buddhism. It builds on a deep commitment to the power and value of both of these ways of advancing knowledge and to their potential to alleviate suffering.
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