Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
April 3, 2025
David W. Orme-Johnson, Vernon A Barnes, Brian Rees et al.
1 citation
Background and Objectives. Our recent systematic review and meta-analysis of all studies on meditation as treatment for PTSD (61 studies) found a moderate effect size of Hedges's g = -0.67 for post-minus-pre change in symptom scores. Separate tests of the four meditation categories found a large effect size of g = -1.13 for the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique that is significantly...
Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
December 12, 2024
David W. Orme-Johnson, Vernon A Barnes, Brian Rees et al.
5 citations
Background and Objectives: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition worldwide. The limited effectiveness of current psychological and pharmacological treatments has motivated studies on meditation techniques. This study is a comprehensive, multiple-treatments meta-analysis comparing the effectiveness of different categories of meditation in treating PTSD. Methods and...
Military Medicine
2018
Robert E Herron, Brian Rees
Current treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are only partially effective. This study evaluated whether an extensively researched stress reduction method, the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique, can reduce the PTSD symptoms of veterans. Previous research suggested that TM practice can decrease veterans' PTSD symptoms. A one-group pretest-posttest design was used to...
Journal of Traumatic Stress
February 1, 2014
Brian Rees, Fred Travis, David Shapiro et al.
This follow-up pilot study tested whether Transcendental Meditation® (TM) practice would significantly reduce symptoms of posttraumatic stress in Congolese refugees within 10 days after instruction. The Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian (PCL-C) was administered to nonmatched waitlist controls from a previous study 3 times over a 90-day period. Within 8 days of the third baseline...
Journal of Traumatic Stress
April 1, 2013
Brian Rees, Fred Travis, David Shapiro et al.
This matched single-blind pilot study tested the effect of Transcendental Meditation® (TM) practice on symptoms of posttraumatic stress (PTS) in Congolese refugees. Urban refugees (N = 102) staying around Kampala, Uganda attended introductory meetings. After initial random assignment to the TM group, 30 refugees who revealed that they were unable to attend all meetings and were eliminated from...
JAMA
November 17, 1989
Brian Rees
1 citation
To the Editor. — I read with great interest the article by Dr Wagner 1 proposing that peace through mind/brain science may be an idea whose time has come. An obvious stumbling block is that the perpetrators of violence and belligerent behavior may not be available to be treated medically and/or that the numbers of those treated may not be sufficient to change societal trends. Recent data point...