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Dr Judson Brewer

Director of Research at the Center for Mindfulness, Psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions
  • How mindfulness can help with addiction. The neuroscience of mindfulness. Neuroimaging of the meditating brain and we can learn from it.
Dr Judson Brewer

Dr Judson Brewer

Director of Research at the Center for Mindfulness, Psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions
  • How mindfulness can help with addiction. The neuroscience of mindfulness. Neuroimaging of the meditating brain and we can learn from it.

Biography

JUDSON BREWER MD Phd is a thought leader in the ‘science of self-mastery,” having combined nearly 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, spoken at international conferences, and his work has been featured in 60 Minutes, TEDx, Time Magazine  (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes,BBC, NPR, BusinessWeek and others. He is Director of Research at the Center of Mindfulness and an at UMass Medical School and an associate professor in medicine and psychiatry at UMass Medical School. He also is adjunct faculty at Yale University School of Medicine and research affiliate at MIT. A psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for addictions, Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for addictions, including both in-person and app-based treatments (ex. www.cravingtoquit.com). He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI.

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