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Marc Heidmann

2 papers in the library · 48 citations · publishing 2022-2024

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Decoding meditation mechanisms underlying brain preservation and psycho-affective health in older expert meditators and older meditation-naive participants.

Scientific Reports November 27, 2024 Sacha Haudry, Anne-Laure Turpin, Brigitte Landeau et al. 3 citations

Meditation is a mental training approach that can improve mental health and well-being in aging. Yet the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. The Medit-Ageing model stipulates that three mechanisms - attentional, constructive, and deconstructive - upregulate positive psycho-affective factors and downregulate negative ones. To test this hypothesis, we measured brain structural MRI and...

Effect of an 18-Month Meditation Training on Regional Brain Volume and Perfusion in Older Adults

JAMA Neurology October 10, 2022 Gaël Chételat, Antoine Lutz, Olga Klimecki et al. 45 citations

Importance: No lifestyle-based randomized clinical trial directly targets psychoaffective risk factors of dementia. Meditation practices recently emerged as a promising mental training exercise to foster brain health and reduce dementia risk. Objective: To investigate the effects of meditation training on brain integrity in older adults. Design, Setting, and Participants: Age-Well was a...