Massachusetts Medical School aims to introduce Mindfulness into Medical Care

Dr. Judson Brewer, has been named as chief of the Division of Mindfulness. “The creation of a stand-alone Division of Mindfulness embedded within a Department of Medicine highlights how far the field has progressed and matured, and will create the infrastructure and support for researchers dedicated to furthering our neuroscientific knowledge of how the mind works, and for what medical conditions mindfulness is efficacious,” 

The move comes more than 30 years after the center’s Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) clinic was established at the university. Since then, more than 24,000 people have been trained in Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the clinic.

There are several studies on mindfulness meditation someones using electroencephalography. One of the major challenges is to prove scientifically functional changes in the cerebral cortex by comparing results on individuals during, at least, 8 weeks of therapy.

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