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...
Neuropsychological rehabilitation
October 23, 2014
Elena Goodrich, Helané Wahbeh, Aimee Mooney et al.
People with severe speech and physical impairments may benefit from mindfulness meditation training because it has the potential to enhance their ability to cope with anxiety, depression and pain and improve their attentional capacity to use brain-computer interface systems. Seven adults with severe speech and physical impairments (SSPI) - defined as speech that is understood less than 25% of...
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
May 14, 2014
Asieh Ahani, Helané Wahbeh, Hooman Nezamfar et al.
165 citations
BACKGROUND: This study investigates measures of mindfulness meditation (MM) as a mental practice, in which a resting but alert state of mind is maintained. A population of older people with high stress level participated in this study, while electroencephalographic (EEG) and respiration signals were recorded during a MM intervention. The physiological signals during meditation and control...
Mindfulness
February 1, 2014
Helané Wahbeh, James B Lane, Elena Goodrich et al.
We created a standardized one-on-one mindfulness meditation intervention with six weekly 90-minute training sessions and home practice. The trainings included didactic instruction, discussion and guided meditations, and home-practice guided meditations and mindfulness exercises. Twenty-eight participants completed mindful awareness, nonjudgment, perceived stress, positive and negative affect,...
International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering
2013
Asieh Ahani, Helané Wahbeh, Meghan Miller et al.
Mindfulness meditation (MM) is an inward mental practice, in which a resting but alert state of mind is maintained. MM intervention was performed for a population of older people with high stress levels. This study assessed signal processing methodologies of electroencephalographic (EEG) and respiration signals during meditation and control condition to aid in quantification of the meditative...