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How Mindfulness May Change the Brain in Depressed Patients
Harvard researchers use brain scans to explore how 8-weeks of training in present-moment awareness might break the cycle of self-rumination.
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Al Powell was born in 1961 in Hartford, Connecticut. He taught high school in rural Kenya in the early 1980s before returning to a career in journalism in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
He is currently senior science writer at Harvard University, staff writer for the Harvard Gazette, and teaches journalism at the Harvard Extension School.
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