Jud Brewer MD PhD

Great work by Liz Hoge and her team at Georgetown showing that MBSR is as good as medication for anxiety published in @JAMAPsych .

This is a great book! And is the perfect gift for the college-bound student. It offers mindfulness habits for life and the promise of better mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional health. So needed in today's world of constant distraction!

Can mindfulness help save the planet? While the concept is often overhyped, here's an interesting article that zooms in on overconsumption and how paying attention to our needs vs. wants can help fight climate change.

Here's to getting our flow on when diving into a good book. Nice article by @EBernsteinWSJ @WSJ

Nice thread on resilience. Keep this handy as we head into the winter. @sharecareinc

Nice article on being addicted to success (at the expense of happiness) by @arthurbrooks in @TheAtlantic Funny how we've set up superficial societal reward structures for being "special" that keep our brains busy as we work for likes and retweets, yet miss out on life...

78% of psychiatrists report high levels of burnout... ...BEFORE COVID-19 HIT. YIKES. New study in The American Journal of Psychiatry @APAPubJournals

Ongoing epidemic (opioid) + new pandemic (COVID-19) = double badness Nice article in @nytimes featuring my @BrownUniversity @BrownMedicine peeps Drs. Jody Rich and Traci Green weighing in on why overdose deaths are on the rise.

Looking for a good movie to watch this weekend? Check out the @BrownUniversity premier of Shannon Harvey's newest documentary: My Year of Living Mindfully. It's streaming free until June 3rd and full of my favorite flavor: science

Nice article by @BStulberg on what we can learn from athletes so we can all make it through this pandemic marathon. My favorite: focus on process (not outcome).

Quarantine 15? “I know that it’s not normal. But while I am shoving a piece of birthday cake in my mouth, I think, it’s OK. This is not a normal time.” Can you relate? Our poor brains, going into survival mode... Nice article in the @BostonGlobe

Is kindness rewarding? It feels pretty good to me. Nice summary by @ulrichmayr of some of his studies showing reward centers of the brain getting activated with altruism