"The Science of Addiction and the Power of Curiosity" with Jud Brewer, MD, PhD

Dr. Jud is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, as well as a research affiliate at MIT. Before that, he held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Mindfulness. Read more about his research here. He is passionate about understanding how our brains work, and how to use that knowledge to help people make deep, permanent change in their lives — with the goal of reducing suffering in the world at large.As an addiction psychiatrist and internationally known expert in mindfulness training for treating addictions, Dr. Jud has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for habit change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety (Eat Right Now, Unwinding Anxiety and Craving to Quit).Based on the success of these programs in the lab, he co-founded MindSciences, Inc. to create app-based digital therapeutic versions of these programs for a wider audience, working with individuals, corporations, and hospital systems to put effective, evidence-based behavior change guidance in the hands of people struggling with unwanted behaviors and “everyday addictions.”In this conversation Dr. Jud explains the habit loop and how addiction is formed. He gets into the science of addiction, willpower and mindfulness, and how a shift in perspective can help address bad habits and break addiction. Tune in to learn more!Learn more at drjud.com .See articles featuring Dr. Jud.Review Dr. Jud’s research on Google Scholar.Check out Dr. Jud’s upcoming appearances & trainings.Learn more about the app-based behavior change programs from DrJud and MindSciences for eating, anxiety, and smoking cessation.This podcast is brought to you by Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness. To learn more about our work, please visithttps://bit.ly/EmoryLM