Healthcare
November 17, 2025
Tharshanah Thayabaranathan, Marina Paul, Frederick R Walker et al.
Background: Managing physiological risk factors (blood pressure, lipids, stress, blood glucose) post-stroke is essential yet challenging. In this sub-study of a feasibility randomized controlled trial, we examined changes in these parameters following a stroke-tailored mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) compared with an attention control. Methods: Participants 3-18 months post-stroke were...
Mindfulness
May 3, 2025
Shaun Hancock, Tharshanah Thayabaranathan, Rene Stolwyk et al.
Movement-based mindfulness may be beneficial for mental health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) post-stroke. We assessed changes in anxiety, depression, fatigue, and HRQoL in survivors of stroke participating in movement-based mindfulness intervention against an attention control (social group). Participants were between 3- and 18-months post-stroke and randomised 1:1 to the...
bioRxiv
September 26, 2023
Chloe Dziego, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Matthias Schlesewsky et al.
preprint
ABSTRACT: Human performance applications of mindfulness-based training have demonstrated its utility in enhancing cognitive functioning. Previous studies have illustrated how these interventions can improve performance on traditional cognitive tests, however, little investigation has explored the extent to which mindfulness-based training can optimise performance in more dynamic and complex...
Journal of Cognitive Enhancement
March 30, 2023
Sara Bitton, Alex Chatburn, Maarten A. Immink
4 citations
Previous investigations into the effect of mindfulness meditation on false memory have reported mixed findings. One potential issue is that mindfulness meditation involves different styles that establish distinct cognitive control states. The present work aimed to address this issue by comparing the effects of single-session focused attention (FAM) and open monitoring (OMM) mindfulness...
Mindfulness
September 29, 2022
L. Javier Bartos, María Jesús Funes, Marc Ouellet et al.
24 citations
Abstract Objectives Higher education student musicians face high physical, psychological, and emotional demands affecting their well-being and academic experience. This study examined the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of the so-called CRAFT program, based on mindfulness, yoga, positive psychology, and emotional intelligence, to improve psychological well-being, psychological...
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
August 23, 2022
Edward J P O’Connor, Alistair Murphy, Mark J Kohler et al.
7 citations
Single-session meditation augmentation of sport-specific skill performance was tested with elite junior tennis athletes. Athletes completed one of two styles of mindfulness meditation (focused-attention or open-monitoring) or a control listening condition prior to performing an implicitly sequenced tennis serve return task involving the goal of hitting a target area placed on the service court....
Acta Psychologica
November 2018
Russell W Chan, Kurt Lushington, Maarten A. Immink
Motor sequence learning is considered the result of the outflow of information following cognitive control processes that are shared by other goal-directed behaviours. Emerging evidence suggests that focused-attention meditation (FAM) establishes states of enhanced cognitive control, that then exert top-down control biases in subsequent unrelated tasks. With respect to sequence learning, a...
Consciousness and Cognition
October 2017
Russell W Chan, Maarten A. Immink, Kurt Lushington
Cognitive control processes influence how motor sequence information is utilised and represented. Since cognitive control processes are shared amongst goal-oriented tasks, motor sequence learning and performance might be influenced by preceding cognitive tasks such as focused-attention meditation (FAM). Prior to a serial reaction time task (SRTT), participants completed either a single-session...
Frontiers in Psychology
2016
Maarten A. Immink
Following training, motor memory consolidation is thought to involve either memory stabilization or off-line learning processes. The extent to which memory stabilization or off-line learning relies on post-training wakeful periods or sleep is not clear and thus, novel research approaches are needed to further explore the conditions that promote motor memory consolidation. The present experiment...