Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
March 24, 2022
Hojung Kang, Seung Chan An, Byeongkwan Kim et al.
Meditation and acupressure-like stimulations have been shown to relieve pain. The aim of this study was to determine whether a short bout of mind-body intervention combined with meditation and acupressure-like stimulation was able to alleviate shoulder pain and improve its function in a short time window. Sixty-five adults with shoulder pain were recruited and randomly classified into two...
Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience
November 1, 2018
Soo-Hee Choi, Seung Chan An, Ul Soon Lee et al.
Objective: Meditation can elicit trait-like changes in psychological and social styles, as well as enhancement of emotional regulatory capacity. We investigated the relation between personality traits and emotional intelligence in meditation practitioners. Methods: Seventy-two long-term practitioners of mind-body training (MBT) and 62 healthy comparative individuals participated in the study....
Mindfulness
March 19, 2018
Joon Hwan Jang, Jae‐Hun Kim, Je-Yeon Yun et al.
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The majority of meditation involves focusing attention on internal events or sensations and becoming aware of emotions. The insula cortex, through a functional connection with the prefrontal cortex and other brain regions, plays a key role in integrating external sensory information with internal bodily state signals and emotional awareness. The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine...
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
May 7, 2012
Do‐hyung Kang, Hang Joon Jo, Wi Hoon Jung et al.
A convergent line of neuroscientific evidence suggests that meditation alters the functional and structural plasticity of distributed neural processes underlying attention and emotion. The purpose of this study was to examine the brain structural differences between a well-matched sample of long-term meditators and controls. We employed whole-brain cortical thickness analysis based on magnetic...
Stress
January 2012
Ye-Ha Jung, Do‐hyung Kang, Min Soo Byun et al.
Meditation may show differential effects on stress and plasma catecholamines based on genetic polymorphisms in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and catechol O-methyl transferase (COMT). Eighty adults (40 men, 40 women; mean age 26 years) who practiced meditation regularly and 57 healthy control adults (35 men, 22 women; mean age 26 years) participated. Plasma catecholamines...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
December 15, 2011
Deborah Bowden, Claire Gaudry, Seung Chan An et al.
This randomised trial compared the effects of Brain Wave Vibration (BWV) training, which involves rhythmic yoga-like meditative exercises, with Iyengar yoga and Mindfulness. Iyengar provided a contrast for the physical components and mindfulness for the "mental" components of BWV. 35 healthy adults completed 10 75-minute classes of BWV, Iyengar, or Mindfulness over five weeks. Participants were...
Neuroscience Letters
July 26, 2010
Ye-Ha Jung, Do‐hyung Kang, Joon Hwan Jang et al.
This study was designed to assess the association between stress, positive affect and catecholamine levels in meditation and control groups. The meditation group consisted of 67 subjects who regularly engaged in mind-body training of "Brain-Wave Vibration" and the control group consisted of 57 healthy subjects. Plasma catecholamine (norepinephrine (NE), epinephrine (E), and dopamine (DA))...