Groundless Ground Podcast

Judson Brewer On Mastering the Addictive Mind

Episode Summary

Judson Brewer, MD, is an addiction psychiatrist, researcher, and developer of novel habit-change apps for healing addiction and anxiety. Our dialogue is devoid of hype and full of innovative insights into addiction, its causes and how to end it.

Episode Notes

This is a very special episode featuring Judson Brewer, MD, PhD, addiction psychiatrist, author, app developer, and associate professor of psychiatry at Brown University School of Medicine. Jud is a seasoned researcher of mindfulness interventions for addiction and developer of novel habit-change apps for abating anxiety and craving. A longtime Buddhist meditation practitioner Jud is a relentless data hound not an evangelist. He was among the first to use real-time neurofeedback and fMRI to study meditation and its effects. Our dialogue is devoid of hype and chockfull of useful insights on addiction, its true causes, and empirically-based self-applied applications for cessating craving, urges, unwanted substance use.

Jud's website https://judsonbrewer.com

Jud's lab Brown University School of Public Health Mindfulness Center

Jud's habit-change Apps

Craving to Quit 

Unwinding Anxiety 

Eat Right Now 

Jud's book The Craving Mind

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