Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy
2021
Marcia J Ash, Elizabeth Reisinger Walker, Ralph J DiClemente et al.
This study examines the effectiveness of incorporating compassion meditation training into a clinical pastoral education (CPE) curriculum to enhance compassion satisfaction and reduce burnout among hospital chaplain residents. Specifically, a longitudinal, quasi-experimental design was used to examine the impact of Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), a group-delivered compassion...
Trials
April 29, 2019
Thaddeus W W Pace, Sally E Dodds, Alla Sikorskii et al.
Cancer survivors and their informal caregivers (family members, close friends) often experience significant impairments in health-related quality of life (HRQOL), including disruptions in psychological, physical, social, and spiritual well-being both during and after primary cancer treatment. The purpose of this in-progress pilot trial is to determine acceptability and preliminary efficacy (as...
BMJ Open
October 4, 2018
Corina Aguilar-Raab, Marc N Jarczok, Marco Warth et al.
Introduction: Positive social interactions (PSIs) and stable relationships can exert substantial benefits on health. However, patients suffering from depression benefit less from these health-promoting effects. Moreover, relationship quality and even partners' health has been found to be negatively affected by depressive symptomatology, which may result in overall impairments in social...
Integrative Cancer Therapies
April 22, 2018
Edgar Gonzalez-Hernandez, Rocío Romero, Daniel Campos et al.
Context: Breast cancer (BC) requires a significant psychological adaptation once treatment is finished. There is growing evidence of how compassion training enhances psychological and physical well-being, however, there are very few studies analyzing the efficacy of compassion-based Interventions on BC survivors. Objective: To study the efficacy of the Cognitively-Based Compassion Training...
Frontiers in Psychology
July 4, 2016
Jennifer Streiffer Mascaro, Alana eDarcher, Lobsang Tenzin Negi et al.
Although kindness-based contemplative practices are increasingly employed by clinicians and cognitive researchers to enhance prosocial emotions, social cognitive skills, and well-being, and as a tool to understand the basic workings of the social mind, we lack a coherent theoretical model with which to test the mechanisms by which kindness-based meditation may alter the brain and body. Here we...
Neuroimage
April 1, 2013
Jennifer S Mascaro, James K. Rilling, Lobsang Tenzin Negi et al.
While a variety of meditation techniques are increasingly employed as health interventions, the fact that meditation requires a significant commitment of time and effort may limit its potential widespread utility. In the current study, we ask whether baseline subjective reports or brain activity in response to a "Pain for Self and Others" paradigm predicts subsequent engagement in mindfulness...
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
September 5, 2012
Jennifer S Mascaro, James K. Rilling, Lobsang Tenzin Negi et al.
225 citations
The ability to accurately infer others' mental states from facial expressions is important for optimal social functioning and is fundamentally impaired in social cognitive disorders such as autism. While pharmacologic interventions have shown promise for enhancing empathic accuracy, little is known about the effects of behavioral interventions on empathic accuracy and related brain activity....
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
June 1, 2012
Gaelle Desbordes, Riccardo Barbieri, Luca Citi et al.
We collected electrocardiogram recordings as part of a larger randomized controlled trial of the effects of an eight-week meditation training intervention on healthy adults without prior meditation experience. Here we report data from eight subjects before and after the “mindful-attention” meditation intervention and the control intervention. The recordings were performed while the subjects...
Psychoneuroendocrinology
February 1, 2010
Thaddeus W W Pace, Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Teresa I Sivilli et al.
Increasing data suggest that meditation impacts stress-related physiological processes relevant to health and disease. For example, our group recently reported that the practice of compassion meditation was associated with reduced innate immune (plasma interleukin [IL]-6) and subjective distress responses to a standardized laboratory psychosocial stressor (Trier Social Stress Test [TSST])....
Psychoneuroendocrinology
2009
Thaddeus W W Pace, Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Daniel D Adame et al.
Meditation practices may impact physiological pathways that are modulated by stress and relevant to disease. While much attention has been paid to meditation practices that emphasize calming the mind, improving focused attention, or developing mindfulness, less is known about meditation practices that foster compassion. Accordingly, the current study examined the effect of compassion meditation...