An estimated 280 million people globally experience depression, with more than 75 percent of people in low- and middle-income countries receiving no treatment at all. What role can mindfulness play in cultivating mental health and wellness? And how can researchers help ensure equitable access to mindfulness-based approaches? Clinical psychological scientist Sona Dimidjian has spent over …
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Rui Afonso
he/him – Rui Afonso is a Brazilian researcher interested in the effects of contemplative practices and altered states of consciousness (self-induced and substance-induced) on mental health. His background is in psychobiology and neuroscience. For decades he has been a teacher and practitioner of Yoga and meditation.
My Ngoc To
My Ngoc has a background in neuroscience from Harvard University and clinical social work from Simmons University. She has taught mindfulness for over five years in community, healthcare, university, and virtual settings, as well as in English and Vietnamese. Complementing this are several years of coordinating a federally-funded research study on incorporating mindfulness into healthcare …
Gabriela Torres Platas
Gabriela Torres Platas, holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from McGill University where she studied the implication of glial cells and their inflammatory contribution in depressed suicides. After her doctoral studies, she pursued clinical research training and Co-lead a laboratory at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal where she conducted several clinical trials to study the …
Joseph Diehl
Joe is a clinical psychology PhD student in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. He is mentored by Dr. Moria Smoski. He is interested in translational approaches to studying the effects of mindfulness-based interventions. His other interests include advanced statistical approaches to enhance the measurement of psychopathology and transdiagnostic processes, psychedelic science, …
Anne Baker
Dr. Baker is a postdoctoral scholar in the Human Affect and Pain Neuroscience Laboratory at Duke University, where she is focused on using brain and spine fMRI to examine neurobiological mechanisms of chronic pain. As a doctoral student, she conducted biobehavioral research on mindfulness as a treatment for chronic pain. Now, she aims to combine …
Investigating the practices, benefits and neural correlates of Tibetan Dream Yoga
The proposed research combines the thorough behavioral investigation of Tibetan dreaming practices with a neuroscience perspective. Buddhist traditions have cultivated techniques to induce, enhance, and refine lucid dreaming—the ability to understand that one is dreaming amid a dream. Building on the ability to experience a lucid dream, one can then volitionally engage is specific practices …
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Ryan Herringa
Ryan Herringa, MD, PhD is the Director of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and the UW Health Professor in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He is a pediatric psychiatrist and neuroscientist whose work explores the neurobehavioral substrates of childhood traumatic stress and PTSD. …
Interdependence, Ethics, and Social Networks
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Looking Ahead
As we strive to navigate an uncertain future, could it be that the root causes of some of our most intractable challenges lie in the human mind? And could solutions be found there, too? Such an audacious proposition lies at the heart of the Insights project, with its evolving collection of essays from leading scholars, …
