Jiahe Zhang, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of the paper published in Nature Neuroscience, "Cortical and subcortical mapping of the human ...

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Researchers at the University of California San Diego have found that an intensive retreat combining multiple mind-body ...

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