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Yacila I. Deza‐Araujo

2 papers in the library · 47 citations · publishing 2021-2022

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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...

Measuring psychological mechanisms in meditation practice: Using a phenomenologically grounded classification system to develop theory-based composite scores

April 13, 2021 Marco Schlosser, Thorsten Barnhofer, Florence Requier et al. 2 citations

Objectives: Deepening our understanding of the mechanisms by which meditation practices impact well-being and human flourishing is essential for advancing the science of meditation. The phenomenologically grounded classification system introduced by Dahl, Lutz, and Davidson (2015) distinguishes attentional, constructive, and deconstructive forms of meditation based on the psychological...