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Center for Healthy Minds

What if our world were a kinder, wiser, more compassionate place? A place where we exercise our minds just like we exercise our bodies? A place where transforming your mind not only improves your own well-being, but cascades to the well-being of others in your community and around the globe?

We’re making this vision a reality at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Faced with mental and physical health challenges at a global scale, we conduct rigorous scientific research to bring new insights and tools aimed at improving the well-being of people of all backgrounds and ages.

Our research, rooted in neuroscience, comes down to one basic question: What constitutes a healthy mind?

To begin to answer this, we’ve investigated the science of emotions, contemplative practices and qualities of mind we suspect affect well-being, including attention, resilience, equanimity, savoring positive emotions, kindness, compassion, gratitude and empathy. The Center, part of one of the world’s top research institutions, benefits from cross-disciplinary collaborations in the arts and humanities, the physical and natural sciences, and the social sciences. We take pride in being a global hub for innovations in affective and contemplative neuroscience in addition to well-being across the lifespan.

Dec 04, 2024  
T32 Postdoc Opportunity Training Program in Emotion Research
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded T32 Training Program in Emotion Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will have two post-doctoral training positions starting in Fall 2025 with up to three years of support. Applications are due on Friday, February 7, 2025 . For more information, please visit emotion.wisc.edu . The following faculty all desire post-doctoral candidates: Dr. Dan Grupe  leads the  Cultivating Justice CoLaboratory  at the Center for Healthy Minds. We are a community-engaged research group that conducts basic and applied research on the well-being of people and communities impacted by incarceration. Our current research focuses on 1) the impact of mindfulness practices in supporting successful transitions from prison into the community, and 2) studying the individual, relational, and community-level impacts of restorative justice programs in community and carceral settings. Candidates with interests...
Center for Healthy Minds Madison, WI, USA Postdoc