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Judson Brewer



Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, is a renowned American professor and addiction psychiatrist whose work centers on “habit change,” or using mindfulness to break the brain’s feedback loops. Brewer combines twenty years of scientific research and mindfulness training to help people overcome anxiety, overeating, smoking, and other addictive behaviors.

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Dr. Jud Brewer on “Everyday Addictions”

We all have habits, but our habits can come to control us. Learn how habits become addictions and how to overcome them with Dr. Jud Brewer.

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Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind

We are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic or as personal as having kids at home and fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night, we are feeling overwhelmed and out of control.

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Do We Need Anxiety?

For many of my patients, and even myself, the recognition that anxiety can be its own toxic comfort has been a lightbulb moment. It can be unsettling to examine our thoughts and our behaviors closely.

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The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love—Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

In The Craving Mind Dr. Judson Brewer, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has studied the science of addictions for twenty years, reveals how we can tap into the very processes that encourage addictive behaviors in order to step out of them.

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Addicted to Twitter? Here's Why

Why we get hooked and what we can do to break the habit.

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Why Is It So Hard to Pay Attention? Or Is It? Curiosity May Be Key to Concentrating

Here are two ways we can pay attention: force ourselves to concentrate, or be interested. The first way is what I did when I was first learning mindfulness.

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Can Mindfulness Address Maladaptive Eating Behaviors? Why Traditional Diet Plans Fail and How New Mechanistic Insights May Lead to Novel Interventions

Emotional and other maladaptive eating behaviors develop in response to a diversity of triggers, from psychological stress to the endless external cues in our modern food environment.

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How to Face Fear

So, if fear helps motivate us, what's wrong with injecting a bit of fear into our lives, so that we improve them? First, we can examine how well fear works as a motivator, and then see how it trips us up.

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Dr. Judson Brewer: Life Worth Living and the Buddhist Tradition

Dr. Matthew Croasmun interviews Dr. Judson Brewer regarding his participation in the Buddhist tradition and his related research at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Brewer was a guest in Yale College's 2015 Life Worth Living course.

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Hacking Your Brain’s “Reward System” to Change Habits

How often do you feel like it is a struggle to fight your brain to break bad habits and start healthy ones? Here’s a short video that shows you the neuroscience behind why this is the case and how to hack your brain’s reward centers to get it to do the work for you.

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