bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
February 13, 2024
Julio Rodriguez-Larios, Kian Foong Wong, Julian Lim
2 citations
preprint
Abstract Previous literature suggests that mindfulness meditation can have positive effects on mental health, however, its mechanisms of action are still unclear. In this pre-registered study, we investigate the effects of mindfulness training on lapses of attention (and their associated neural correlates) during meditation practice. For this purpose, we recorded Electroencephalogram (EEG)...
Translational Psychiatry
November 11, 2023
Wan Lin Yue, Kwun Kei Ng, Amelia Jialing Koh et al.
32 citations
Mindfulness-based interventions are showing increasing promise as a treatment for psychological disorders, with improvements in cognition and emotion regulation after intervention. Understanding the changes in functional brain activity and neural plasticity that underlie these benefits from mindfulness interventions is thus of interest in current neuroimaging research. Previous studies have...
Mindfulness
August 25, 2023
April Shi MIn Ching, Julian Lim
11 citations
Abstract Objectives The assessment of mindfulness has relied predominantly on self-report questionnaires, indicating a need for alternative methods based on objective data. The Breath-Counting Task (BCT) has been proposed as a viable candidate by several mindfulness researchers, but has been subject to relatively little scientific scrutiny. Method We conducted a mega-analysis using combined...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
March 23, 2018
Julian Lim, James Teng, Amiya Patanaik et al.
5 citations
preprint
Abstract While mindfulness is commonly viewed as a skill to be cultivated through practice, untrained individuals can also vary widely in dispositional mindfulness. Prior research has identified static neural connectivity correlates of this trait. Here, we use dynamic functional connectivity (DFC) analysis of resting-state fMRI to study time-varying connectivity patterns associated with...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2018
Kian F Wong, James Teng, Michael W.L. Chee et al.
Mindfulness based training (MBT) is becoming increasingly popular as a means to improve general wellbeing through developing enhanced control over metacognitive processes. In this preliminary study, we tested a cohort of 36 nurses (mean age = 30.3, SD = 8.52; 2 male) who participated in an 8-week MBT intervention to examine the improvements in sustained attention and its energetic costs that...
Mindfulness
2018
Kian F Wong, Stijn A. A. Massar, Michael W.L. Chee et al.
Despite calls for objective measures of mindfulness to be adopted in the field, such practices have not yet become established. Recently, a breath-counting task (BCT) was proposed as a reliable and valid candidate for such an instrument. In this study, we show that the psychometric properties of the BCT are reproducible in a sample of 127 Asian undergraduates. Specifically, accuracy on the BCT...