Rael Cahn, MD, PhD

Dr. Rael Cahn completed his PhD in Neurosciences in 2007 and received his medical degree in 2008 from UC San Diego in La Jolla, CA. He completed his residency with the UC Irvine Medical Center Psychiatry Residency Program in 2014 and joined the USC faculty. Dr. Cahn has been researching and publishing on the clinical and brain effects of mindfulness and meditative practices throughout his medical and scientific career as well as teaching mindfulness meditation in group settings for medical professionals as well as patients. He is currently affiliated with the USC Brain and Creativity Institute where he is conducting psychological and brain research in the domains of behavioral and psychological interventions including mindfulness and meditative practices in healthy populations dealing with everyday stressors as well as those with psychiatric illness including substance use disorders, depression, and anxiety.

• Alliant University: Early Career Award for Contributions in Integrative Psychology, 2010
• Council on Spiritual Practices: William James Award, 2004

• UCSD, La Jolla, CA — MD — 2008 — Medicine
• UCSD, La Jolla, CA — PhD — 2007 — Neuroscience

• mindfulness
• meditation
• psychophysiology
• embodied cognition
• self awareness
• self narrative
• well-being
• depression
• yoga
• cognitive neuroscience
• bipolar disorder
• affective neuroscience
• EEG
• neurophenomenology
• narrative-free awareness
• psychedelic therapy

• Leventhal, Adam
• Black, David
• Thompson, Paul
• Unger, Jennifer
• Toga, Arthur
• Barrington-Trimis, Jessica