The Dr. Jud Podcast
Welcome to the Dr. Jud podcast. I am an addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. My lab first at Yale and now at Brown University has been researching how our brains form negative behavior patterns, bad habits and addictions, and the specific techniques needed to create lasting change. My aim with this podcast, is to use every day issues that we all struggle with from anxiety to emotional eating to self judgment to help us understand how our minds work so that we can put them to work for us. I'll show you how you can use your brain to overcome the habits and “everyday addictions” that are holding you back. And along the way, you'll learn how helping yourself can help create a kinder and more compassionate world. Thank you for your interest in learning how to work with your mind.-Dr. Jud Brewer
Episodes
56 episodes
Mindfulness and meditation - The Mind on Love: Brain Connectivity and the Power of Kindness
BOLD Signal and Functional Connectivity Associated with Loving-Kindness MeditationIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and his team explore the neuroscience behind loving-kindness meditation (Metta) and its impact on brain function. Using fM...
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20:19
Habit Change Addiction - From Triggers to Triumph: Reducing Anxiety and Smoking with Awareness
Analyzing the Impact of Mobile App Engagement on Mental Health Outcomes: Secondary Analysis of the Unwinding Anxiety ProgramIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and colleagues explore how engagement with specific app features impacts mental ...
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11:41
Mindfulness and meditation - The Mind’s Mirror: What fMRI Reveals About Meditation
Real-Time fMRI Links Subjective Experience with Brain Activity During Focused AttentionIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer explores groundbreaking research on real-time fMRI neurofeedback, revealing how brain activity and subjective experie...
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15:31
Habbit Change Anxiety - The Future of Physician Wellness: Mindfulness in Your Pocket
Digital Mindfulness Training for Burnout Reduction in Physicians: Clinician-Driven ApproachIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and Dr. Lia Antico dive into their groundbreaking research on digital mindfulness as a tool for combating physician b...
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31:38
Habit Change Eating - Can Awareness Transform Our Eating Habits? Insights from the PASE Study
Practical Awareness-Based Strategies for Eating (PASE): A Pilot and Feasibility Randomized Trial examines the effectiveness of a mobile mindfulness-based intervention, Eat Right Now (ERN), targeting reward-related eating to promote weight loss....
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15:11
Mindfulness and meditation - Real-Time Neurofeedback: A Window Into the Meditating Mind
Effortless Awareness: Using Real-Time Neurofeedback to Investigate Correlates of Posterior Cingulate Cortex Activity in Meditators' Self-Report explores how real-time fMRI neurofeedback can link meditation experience to brain activity. In this ...
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15:36
Habit Change Anxiety - Unwinding Anxiety: The Role of Engagement in Digital Mental Health
Analyzing the Impact of Mobile App Engagement on Mental Health Outcomes: Secondary Analysis of the Unwinding Anxiety ProgramIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and colleagues explore how engagement with specific app features impacts mental ...
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15:01
Habit Change Eating - The Mindful Connection to Obesity and Central Adiposity
Associations of Dispositional Mindfulness with Obesity and Central Adiposity: The New England Family StudyIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and colleagues examine how dispositional mindfulness—the ability to nonjudgmentally attend t...
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9:37
Mindfulness and meditation - Getting Caught Up: How the Brain Processes Self and Craving
What About the "Self" Is Processed in the Posterior Cingulate Cortex? investigates the role of the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) in self-referential processing. This fascinating study by Dr. Jud Brewer, Kathleen Garrison, and Susan Whitfield...
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13:42
Habit Change Anxiety - Personalizing Anxiety Treatment: The Science of Psychological Phenotyping
Cluster-Based Psychological Phenotyping and Differences in Anxiety Treatment OutcomesIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and colleagues explore how machine learning and psychological phenotyping can optimize treatment for anxiety disorders....
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15:38
Habit Change Eating - From Shame to Self-Care: Women’s Transformations Through Mindful Eating
Women’s Experiences with a Mindful Eating Program for Binge and Emotional Eating: A Qualitative Investigation into the Process of ChangeIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and colleagues unpack the transformative power of mindfulness-based ...
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Episode 5
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12:47
Mindfulness and meditation - Breaking the Habit Cycle: How Mindfulness Transforms Attention
"Why Is It So Hard to Pay Attention, or Is It? Mindfulness, the Factors of Awakening and Reward-Based Learning" dives into the intricate connections between mindfulness, attention, and habit formation. Dr. Jud Brewer, alongside co-authors Jake ...
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13:43
Habit Change Anxiety - Better Sleep Through Mindfulness: Tackling Anxiety with Technology
Targeting Anxiety to Improve Sleep Disturbance: A Randomized Clinical Trial of App-Based Mindfulness TrainingIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and colleagues discuss a novel randomized clinical trial examining the impact of the Unwinding ...
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11:26
Habit Change Eating - Mindful Eating Tools: Using Technology to Curb Cravings and Lose Weight
Testing a Mobile Mindful Eating Intervention Targeting Craving-Related Eating: Feasibility and Proof of ConceptIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and colleagues discuss the results of a groundbreaking study testing a smartphone-based mindf...
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Episode 4
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17:33
Mindfulness and meditation - The Neuroscience of Mindfulness: Redefining the Default Mode of the Brain
Meditation Experience Is Associated with Differences in Default Mode Network Activity and Connectivity explores how mindfulness meditation impacts brain function. In this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and his colleagues reveal groundbrea...
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16:05
Habit Change Anxiety - Unwinding Anxiety: Revolutionizing Physician Wellness Through Apps
Physician Anxiety and Burnout: Symptom Correlates and a Prospective Pilot Study of App-Delivered Mindfulness TrainingIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and colleagues delve into the alarming rise of physician burnout and its strong c...
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14:00
Habit Change Eating - Rewiring Cravings: Mindfulness and the Science of Eating Behavior
Awareness Drives Changes in Reward Value Which Predict Eating Behavior Change: Probing Reinforcement Learning Using Experience Sampling from Mobile Mindfulness Training for Maladaptive EatingIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and co...
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Episode 3
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13:46
Habit Change Anxiety - Breaking the Anxiety Habit: A Digital Approach to Mental Health
Clinical Efficacy and Psychological Mechanisms of an App-Based Digital Therapeutic for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Randomized Controlled TrialIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and Alexandra Roy discuss a pioneering randomized controlled...
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14:48
Habit Change Eating - Self-Regulation Without Force: The Role of Mindfulness and Reward
Self-Regulation Without Force: Can Awareness Leverage Reward to Drive Behavior ChangeIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and colleagues introduce a groundbreaking approach to sustainable behavior change that moves beyond willpower-based str...
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Episode 2
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17:04
Habit Change Anxiety - From Habit Loops to Healing: Redefining Anxiety Treatment
Can Approaching Anxiety Like a Habit Lead to Novel Treatments?In this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and Alexandra Roy explore how anxiety, a growing mental health epidemic, may be approached through the lens of habit formation. This gro...
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20:50
Habit Change Eating - Breaking the Cycle: How Mindfulness Helps Overcome Emotional Eating
Can Mindfulness Address Maladaptive Eating Behaviors? Why Traditional Diet Plans Fail and How New Mechanistic Insights May Lead to Novel InterventionsIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and colleagues explore the limitations of tradit...
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Episode 1
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12:58
Habit change Neuroscience - The Brain on Meditation: Decoding the Posterior Cingulate Cortex
The Posterior Cingulate Cortex as a Plausible Mechanistic Target of Meditation: Findings from NeuroimagingJoin Dr. Jud Brewer and Kathleen A. Garrison as they explore the neurobiological underpinnings of mindfulness and meditation...
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Episode 3
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13:06
Habit change Neuroscience - Breaking Cravings: How Mindfulness Changes the Smoking Brain
Quitting Starts in the Brain: A Randomized Controlled Trial of App-Based Mindfulness Shows Decreases in Neural Responses to Smoking Cues That Predict Reductions in SmokingIn this episode, Dr. Jud Brewer and his team dive into grou...
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Episode 2
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9:14
Habit Change: Neuroscience - Mindfulness and Addictions: A Neuroscience Brain Hack?
Title:Mindfulness Training for Addictions: Has Neuroscience Revealed a Brain Hack by Which Awareness Subverts the Addictive Process?Description:Can mindfulness offer a revolutionary approach to over...
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Episode 1
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19:19
Healthcare provider course - Module 1. Feeling the pain: empathy and action
Being empathetic with patients is important for their recovery but it has its limits.In this podcast, you will learn:- How empathy fatigue can lead to burnout. - How to recognize coping behavior strategies employed by ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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17:30