Media/News

04/04/2024 - Yoga provides unique cognitive benefits to older women at risk of Alzheimer’s disease, study finds

04/03/2024 - Breathing not-so-easy: Can meditation and ice baths really set your mind and body free?

03/27/2024 - Practicing Yoga Can Help Prevent Alzheimer's Disease

02/28/2024 - Yoga Brings Brain Benefits to Women at Risk for Alzheimer's

02/26/2024 - Kundalini yoga bolsters cognitive health among older women at risk of Alzheimer’s disease

01/24/2024 - Breathing Matters | UCLA Neuroscience Research Theme Event

01/08/2024 - Yoga May Be Even Healthier Than You Thought. Here’s Why

12/27/2023 - Integrative Therapies for Brain Health and Aging

11/30/2023 - Dementia Untangled

11/20/2023 - Dr. Helen Lavretsky Interview - Human Kind

11/03/2023 - 2023 Annual UCLA Integrative Medicine Conference

09/26/2023 - Life-Course Brain Health as a Determinant of Late-Life Mental Health: American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Expert Panel Recommendations

09/20/2023 - Tai chi as mind-body medicine? A UCLA Health psychiatrist aims to take the practice nationwide

08/03/2023 - A new understanding of the power of yoga

08/09/2023 - Couples’ Guide to Keeping Your Heart Healthy

07/28/2023 - This yoga may benefit women with high risk of Alzheimer’s disease

07/26/2023 - Kundalini yoga may be beneficial for older women with Alzheimer's risk factors

07/20/2023 - Yoga may improve cognitive function in older adults at risk for decline

07/11/2023 - Integrative Therapies for Older Adults

03/06/2023 - NFL star Aaron Rodgers went on a darkness retreat. What’s that?

02/23/2023 - Is long COVID a neurological disease? Scientists are doing more research

02/14/2023 - Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments

01/31/2023 - Depression, poor mental health in young adults linked to higher cardiovascular risks

01/31/2023 - What COVID-19, mental health and aging have in common

10/06/2022 - The vital crosstalk between breath and brain

08/24/2022 - Patient Education Webinar: Integrative solutions for neuropsychiatric symptoms with Dr. Lavretsky

07/26/2022 - Fears of more long COVID, a ‘mass disabling event’ as variants rip through California

06/29/2022 - Life's Essential 8: Updating and Enhancing the American Heart Association's Construct of Cardiovascular Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association

02/14/2022 - Desperate Americans Are Going Abroad for Unproven Long COVID Cures

01/11/2022 - Semel Grand Rounds, 2022-01-11, Dr. Helen Lavretsky, Dr. Joann Elmore & Dr. Elyse Singer

10/28/2021 - Could Breastfeeding Help Women Keep Their Smarts as They Age?

10/23/2021 - Many Covid patients have memory problems months later, new study finds

10/23/2021 - Breastfeeding May Help Prevent Cognitive Decline - Neuroscience News

10/23/2021 - New study suggests that breastfeeding may help prevent cognitive decline -- ScienceDaily

10/14/2021 - Adele tried sound baths for stress: What are they? Do they help? Experts explain

07/23/2021 - What Will the Future of Alzheimer Disease Treatment Look Like?

07/19/2021 - Addressing the Cognition Crisis in Our COVID-19 World

06/02/2021 - Medical Research: Prerecorded - Panel 4 - Presentation 5

05/19/2021 - Integrative Mental Health in The Time of COVID

04/12/2021 - The latest interview for Forbes magazine about climate change and impact on older adults

03/24/2021 - Feeling Lucky? Convergence Mental Health as a Mechanism for Serendipitous Innovation

02/02/2021 - Mental Health Plays a Role in Treating and Preventing Heart Disease

01/07/2021 - Disaster Stress, Mental Health, and Aging: How Mind-Body Therapies Can Build Resilience

01/05/2021 - Convergence Mental Health

11/04/2020 - UCLA Integrative Psych, 2020-11-04, SARS-CoV-2 : Complementary & Integrative Treatments Update

08/31/2020 - Seniors With Depression Show Resilience in Face of Pandemic

07/08/2020 - The Upside and Downside of Religion, Spirituality, and Health

06/16/2020 - UCLA Longevity Center, 2020-05-20, Resilience in the Age of Covid-19, Dr. Small, Dr. Lavretsky

06/10/2020 - UCLA/Egoscue Interview

05/03/2020 - Yoga Scholars Pgimer

03/05/2020 - What's The Deal With Sound Baths And Do They Actually Work?

02/11/2020 - UCLA Newsroom

08/16/2019 - Memory – How Yoga Improves Cognitive Functioning

Resilience in the Context of Ageing with Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS

Dr. Richard Brown teaching healing practices to women of South Sudan who were liberated from slavery in North Sudan. July 2011

Dr. Brown teaching children refugees from the Middle East in a shelter in Berlin. Oct. 2016

Dr. Patricia Gerbang giving a lecture on breathing practices at the 2015 Breathe and Heal Conference Elimra, NY 2015.

Dr. Brown teaching a group of 400 South Sudanese men, women, and children who just crossed the border from North to South Sudan after years of brutal slavery in the North. July 2011