Why we do what we do
Dr. Richard Davidson's work at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds is leading groundbreaking, rigorous scientific inquiry in how transforming the mind can change the brain and body. Through this work we collectively embody the common purpose of improving the quality of life for everyone.
Learning to understand how positive qualities such as attention, concentration, clarity, cooperation and kindness can affect the brain will allow scientists to develop interventions to nurture these capacities in children and adults so that they can be more attentive, focused, loving, forgiving and compassionate.
The universal positive qualities we study and hope to nurture are central to both our basic research and translational research programs. Our translational research partners with health care providers, educators, and corrections officials to implement programs in medicine, education and the penal system, all of which can benefit from mental training derived from contemplative traditions. Our commitment is to use state-of-art scientific methods to rigorously study the impact of these practices so that a solid empirical foundation can be put into place and ultimately lead to significant change in these major institutions of our culture and its citizens.
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