Grand Rounds: Amit Bernstein, Ph.D.

Amit Bernstein is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Observing Minds Lab, in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Haifa. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Center for Healthy Minds and the Department of Psychology, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Amit is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Vermont, the Stanford School of Medicine and the Palo Alto VA, and the Israel Young Academy of the Israel National Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Amit’s group has studied internally-directed cognition in mental health, and the (mal)adaptive ways that people process, relate to, and respond to their internal states. His group’s translational research has focused on mindfulness- and compassion-based therapeutics targeting internally-directed cognition, in order to promote mental health and buffer the toxicity of adversity and trauma, particularly among forcibly displaced communities (e.g. refugees).