Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
October 7, 2025
David Saunders, Shosuke Suzuki, Nilofar Vafaie et al.
Introduction: Mindfulness has been shown to benefit children and adolescents. However, predictors of treatment effects of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are less well known. The purpose of the study was to test the treatment effect of MBIs in children/adolescents, test for moderation by meditation practice history (MPH) of the investigator(s), and compare moderation by MPH to other...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
July 1, 2020
James Phillips, Fayez El-Gabalawi, Brian A Fallon et al.
In recent decades, an evolving conversation among religion, psychiatry, and neuroscience has been taking place, transforming how we conceptualize religion and how that conceptualization affects its relation to psychiatry. In this article, we review several dimensions of the dialogue, beginning with its history and the phenomenology of religious experience. We then turn to neuroscientific...
Dreaming
March 1, 2017
David Saunders, Helen Clegg, Chris A Roe et al.
11 citations
This article reports an investigation of two proposed theories, the predispositional and experiential, regarding the association of personality variables to lucid dreaming incidence during a 12-week lucid dreaming induction programme. The study found no differences between those who did and did not report lucid dreams during the programme on baseline measures of Field Independence, Locus of...
Consciousness and Cognition
June 20, 2016
David Saunders, Chris A Roe, Graham Smith et al.
93 citations
We report a quality effects meta-analysis on studies from the period 1966-2016 measuring either (a) lucid dreaming prevalence (one or more lucid dreams in a lifetime); (b) frequent lucid dreaming (one or more lucid dreams in a month) or both. A quality effects meta-analysis allows for the minimisation of the influence of study methodological quality on overall model estimates. Following...