Interest in mindfulness and its role in education has been fueled in recent years with important and compelling research exploring the connection between mindfulness practices and changes to the structure and function of the brain, and with it, performance and wellbeing.

Miami Law in collaboration with the Neuroscience Laboratory of Amishi Jha is contributing to this important work, helping to further our knowledge in this area of profound importance to legal education, the legal profession, and society.

A selection of recently published research. Click here for a more complete listing.

Denkova E., Barry, J., Zanesco A.P., Rooks, J., Rogers S.L. & Jha A.P., (2023) Online mindfulness training for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: a randomized controlled trial using a multi-method assessment approach. Aging and Mental Health.

Nassif, T., Adrian, A., Gutierrez, I., Dixon, A., Rogers, S., Jha, A. & Adler (2023) Optimizing performance and mental skills with mindfulness-based attention training: Two field studies with operational units, Military Medicine, Volume 188, Issue 3-4, March-April 2023, Pages e761–e770.

Jha, A. P., Zanesco, A. P., Denkova, E., MacNaulty, W., & Rogers, S. L. (2022). The effects of mindfulness training on working memory performance in high-demand cohorts: a multi- study investigation. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 6 (2), 192-204.

Denkova, E., Alessio, C., Barry, J., Zanesco, A. P., Rogers, S. L., Matusevich, K., & Jha, A. P. (2022). Mindfulness training in organizational settings: An empirical look at the research. In L. Wilkin & Y. Pathak (Eds.), De Gruyter Handbook of Organizational Conflict Management (pp. 57-68). De Gruyter.

You can learn more by visiting the University of Miami's Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, co-founded in 2010 by Program Director, Scott Rogers, and UM Psychology professor and cognitive neuroscientist, Amishi Jha. Click here.