This video comes from the Arizona Meditation Research Interest Group (AMRIG) at the University of Arizona. Dr. Charles Raison (CNN health’s mental health expert) is new to the U of A, having previously been at Emory University, where he was part of a team that developed Cognitive-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), along with Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Ph.D. (founder and director of Drepung Loseling Monastery, in Atlanta), Brooke Dodson-Lavelle, M.A., and Brendan Ozawa-de Silva, Ph.D. At the U of A he is part of both the medical school and the department of psychiatry (Barry and Janet Lang Associate Professor of Integrative Mental Health).
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