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Helen Weng



Helen Weng, PhD, is an American researcher, neuroscientist, and clinical psychologist whose studies focus on how meditation may improve both social and physical well-being. The child of Taiwanese immigrants, she has worked to increase the diversity of meditators in mindfulness studies, designing the studies so that they are more culturally sensitive to people from different groups.

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How Meditation Impacts the Brain and Implications for Health

How does mindfulness and meditation improve health? Helen Weng, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, explains that training our internal mental lives can have positive effects on our minds, health, and relationships.

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Compassion Is Like a Muscle That Gets Stronger with Training

Loving-kindness meditation and compassion training boost empathic resilience.

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The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measures, and Interventions - Helen Weng, Ph.D. Candidate

This talk was part of panel Compassion-Building Interventions by Helen Weng, Ph.D. candidate.

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Dr Helen Weng: Intersectional Neuroscience

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Discussant Responses to Afternoon Talks: Helen Weng, PhD, Eve Ekman, PhD & David Meyer, PhD.

Short responses to the last four talks given at the 2015 UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain research summit “Perspectives on Mindfulness: the Complex Role of Scientific Research” on May 21, 2015.

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Dr. Helen Weng’s Groundbreaking Research on Compassion Meditation Published

Osher Center researcher Helen Weng, PhD, is the lead author of a promising new study, “Visual Attention to Suffering After Compassion Training Is Associated With Decreased Amygdala Responses,” which was recently published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. This study was conducted while Dr.

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Trying Compassion on Capitol Hill

Can you extend compassion toward a difficult person in your life? Congressman Tim Ryan tries a practice to help him reach across the aisle.

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Dr. Helen Weng Included in 10 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement

For Helen Weng, her work as a neuroscientist, her lived experience as the child of Taiwanese immigrants, and her mindfulness practice are inseparable. Weng has spent the last 14 years investigating the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness meditation.

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Find That Inner Calm

International megastar Daniel Wu tries a practice that brings him calm amidst the chaos.

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Helen Weng: Using Science to Spread a Message of Compassion, Equity, and Inclusion

“This is how research should be done. By including those you want to study—and by sharing resources—it’s an embodied act of social activism.”

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