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Meditation in Stressed Older Adults: Improvements in self-rated mental health not paralleled by improvements in cognitive function or physiological measures.

Mindfulness June 2017 Barry Oken, Helané Wahbeh, Elena Goodrich et al.

To determine if mindfulness meditation (MM) in older adults improves cognition and, secondarily, if MM improves mental health and physiology, 134 at least mildly stressed 50-85 year olds were randomized to a six-week MM intervention or a waitlist control. Outcome measures were assessed at baseline and two months later at Visit 2. The primary outcome measure was an executive function/attentional...