Pilot controlled trial of mindfulness meditation and education for dementia caregivers.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine October 7, 2010
Pilot controlled trial of mindfulness meditation and education for dementia caregivers.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
ISSN 1557-7708, 1075-5535
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Introducing qigong meditation into residential addiction treatment: a pilot study where gender makes a difference.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine August 1, 2010
Introducing qigong meditation into residential addiction treatment: a pilot study where gender makes a difference.
Effects of Brief and Sham Mindfulness Meditation on Mood and Cardiovascular Variables
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine July 28, 2010 Fadel Zeidan, Susan K. Johnson, Nakia S Gordon et al. 323 citations
OBJECTIVES: Although long-term meditation has been found to reduce negative mood and cardiovascular variables, the effects of a brief mindfulness meditation intervention when compared to a sham mindfulness meditation intervention are relatively unknown. This experiment examined whether a 3-day (1-hour total) mindfulness or sham mindfulness meditation intervention would improve mood and...
Intensive meditation for refractory pain and symptoms.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine June 1, 2010
Intensive meditation for refractory pain and symptoms.
Brain Activation During Compassion Meditation: A Case Study
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine May 1, 2010 Maria Engström, Birgitta Söderfeldt 66 citations
OBJECTIVES: B.L. is a Tibetan Buddhist with many years of compassion meditation practice. During meditation B.L. uses a technique to generate a feeling of love and compassion while reciting a mantra. The aim of the present study was to investigate the neural correlates of compassion meditation in 1 experienced meditator. METHODS: B.L. was examined by functional magnetic resonance imaging during...
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2009.0309 (opens in new tab)
Meditation
Insula
Feeling
Empathy
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Enhanced psychosocial well-being following participation in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program is associated with increased natural killer cell activity.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine May 2010 Carolyn Y. Fang, Diane K. Reibel, Margaret L Longacre et al.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programs have consistently been shown to enhance the psychosocial well-being of participants. Given the well-established association between psychosocial factors and immunologic functioning, it has been hypothesized that enhanced psychosocial well-being among MBSR participants would be associated with corresponding changes in markers of immune activity....
Vipassana meditation: systematic review of current evidence.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2010 Alberto Chiesa
Vipassana meditation (VM) is one of the most ancient and diffused types of meditative practices belonging to the pole of mindfulness. Despite the growing interest toward the neurobiological and clinical correlates of many meditative practices, no review has specifically focused on current evidence on neuro-imaging and clinical evidence about VM. A literature search was undertaken using...
Increased theta and alpha EEG activity during nondirective meditation.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine November 2009 Jim Lagopoulos, Jian Xu, Inge Rasmussen et al.
In recent years, there has been significant uptake of meditation and related relaxation techniques, as a means of alleviating stress and maintaining good health. Despite its popularity, little is known about the neural mechanisms by which meditation works, and there is a need for more rigorous investigations of the underlying neurobiology. Several electroencephalogram (EEG) studies have...
Randomized controlled trial of mindfulness-based therapy for dyspnea in chronic obstructive lung disease.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine October 2009 Richard A Mularski, Brett A Munjas, Karl A Lorenz et al.
Patients with chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) suffer from significant dyspnea and may benefit from complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies aimed at mitigating symptoms. The objective of this study was to test the efficacy of a mindfulness-based breathing therapy (MBBT) on improving symptoms and health-related quality of life in those with COPD. We conducted a randomized...
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Stress Management in Healthy People: A Review and Meta-Analysis
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine May 1, 2009 Alberto Chiesa, Alessandro Serretti 1,707 citations
BACKGROUND: Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a clinically standardized meditation that has shown consistent efficacy for many mental and physical disorders. Less attention has been given to the possible benefits that it may have in healthy subjects. The aim of the present review and meta-analysis is to better investigate current evidence about the efficacy of MBSR in healthy...
Zen Meditation: An Integration of Current Evidence
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine May 1, 2009 Alberto Chiesa 83 citations
OBJECTIVE: Despite the growing interest in the neurobiological and clinical correlates of many meditative practices, in particular mindfulness meditations, no review has specifically focused on current evidence on electroencephalographic, neuroimaging, biological, and clinical evidence about an important traditional practice, Zen meditation. METHODS: A literature search was conducted using...
Mindful exercise, quality of life, and survival: a mindfulness-based exercise program for women with breast cancer.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine January 2009 Anna M. Tacón, Jacalyn McComb
The purpose of this article is to describe the rationale and protocol for a pilot study in women with breast cancer that integrates the two complementary therapies of mindfulness and exercise. A sample of 30 women diagnosed with breast cancer within the previous 12 months who have completed initial treatment for their disease will be recruited from oncology physicians' offices. The pilot will...
Cerebral blood flow effects of yoga training: preliminary evaluation of 4 cases.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine January 2009 Debbie L Cohen, Nancy Wintering, Victoria Tolles et al.
Experienced practitioners of yoga have been shown to alter brain function, but this case series measured cerebral blood flow before and after a 12-week training program in Iyengar yoga (IY) for naïve subjects. On the first day, each of the 4 subjects listened to the teacher speaking on the history and background of the yoga program while they were injected with 250 MBq of (99m)Tc-bicisate and...
Clinical Trials of Meditation Practices in Health Care: Characteristics and Quality
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine December 1, 2008 Maria B. Ospina, Kenneth Bond, Mohammad Karkhaneh et al. 140 citations
OBJECTIVE: To provide a descriptive overview of the clinical trials assessing meditation practices for health care. DESIGN: Systematic review of the literature. Comprehensive searches were conducted in 17 electronic bibliographic databases through September 2005. Other sources of potentially relevant studies included hand searches, reference tracking, contacting experts, and gray literature...
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2008.0307 (opens in new tab)
Meditation
Mindfulness
Alternative medicine
Clinical trial
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Commentary on the AHRQ report on research on meditation practices in health.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine December 1, 2008 David W. Orme-Johnson
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) report is a major reference point for establishing where the research on meditation stands and where it should go from here. This commentary argues that double blinding, a major component of the report's evaluation criteria, is not an appropriate control for placebo in meditation research. A viable alternative is to make the treatment and...
Psychoneuroimmunologic effects of Ayurvedic oil-dripping treatment.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine December 2008 Kazuo Uebaba, Feng-Hao Xu, Hiroko Ogawa et al.
This study assessed the psychoneuroimmunologic changes achieved by Shirodhara, an Ayurvedic treatment, characterized by dripping oil on the forehead, in a randomized, controlled protocol involving a novel approach using a robotic system. In the first experiment for the determination of the most appropriate conditions of Shirodhara, 16 healthy females (33 +/- 9 years old) underwent a 30-minute...
Pharmaco-physio-psychologic effect of Ayurvedic oil-dripping treatment using an essential oil from Lavendula angustifolia.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine October 2008 Fenghao Xu, Kazuo Uebaba, Hiroko Ogawa et al.
Ayurvedic oil-dripping treatment, Shirodhara, involves the use of medicated herbal sesame oils. In our previous reports, we found that Shirodhara with plain sesame oil induced anxiolysis and an altered state of consciousness (ASC) in healthy subjects. We studied the pharmaco-physio-psychologic effect of Shirodhara with medicated sesame oil including an essential oil from Lavendula angustifolia...
A pilot study comparing the effects of mindfulness-based and cognitive-behavioral stress reduction.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine April 2008 Bruce W Smith, Brian M Shelley, Jeanne Dalen et al.
The objective of this pilot study was to compare the effects of two mind-body interventions: mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and cognitive-behavioral stress reduction (CBSR). Fifty (50) subjects were recruited from the community and took part in MBSR (n = 36) and CBSR (n = 14) courses. Participants self-selected into MBSR or CBSR courses taught at different times. There were no...
Differential effects of relaxation techniques on ultraweak photon emission.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine April 1, 2008 Eduard P A Van Wijk, Rainer Lüdtke, Roeland Van Wijk
Evidence has accumulated favoring the possible role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of many chronic diseases. Meditation is utilized as an adjunct to conventional medical treatment for several clinical conditions. A few studies suggest a role of long-term meditation in the control of the free-radical metabolism. Many techniques for recording reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been made...
Holotropic Breathwork: The Potential Role of a Prolonged, Voluntary Hyperventilation Procedure as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine September 1, 2007 Joseph P. Rhinewine, Oliver J. Williams 37 citations
OBJECTIVES: To pose the question of whether Holotropic Breathwork (HB), a prolonged, voluntary hyperventilation procedure, might be useful in treatment of common psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depressive disorders. DESIGN: This is a hypothesis-posing paper pertaining to a potential novel treatment. SUMMARY: The neurophysiology and psychology of hyperventilation are reviewed,...
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2006.6203 (opens in new tab)
Adjunct
Hyperventilation
Psychotherapist
Intensive care medicine
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Cortical dynamics as a therapeutic mechanism for touch healing.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2007 Catherine E. Kerr, Rachel H. Wasserman, Christopher I. Moore
Touch Healing (TH) therapies, defined here as treatments whose primary route of administration is tactile contact and/or active guiding of somatic attention, are ubiquitous across cultures. Despite increasing integration of TH into mainstream medicine through therapies such as Reiki, Therapeutic Touch,(TM) and somatically focused meditation practices such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction,...
Binaural beat technology in humans: a pilot study to assess psychologic and physiologic effects.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2007 Helané Wahbeh, Carlo Calabrese, Heather Zwickey
Binaural beat technology (BBT) products are sold internationally as personal development and health improvement tools. Producers suggest benefit from regular listening to binaural beats including reduced stress and anxiety, and increased focus, concentration, motivation, confidence, and depth in meditation. Binaural beats are auditory brainstem responses that originate in the superior olivary...
Systematic review of the efficacy of meditation techniques as treatments for medical illness.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine October 2006 Albert J Arias, Karen Steinberg, Alok Banga et al.
Meditative techniques are sought frequently by patients coping with medical and psychological problems. Because of their increasingly widespread appeal and use, and the potential for use as medical therapies, a concise and thorough review of the current state of scientific knowledge of these practices as medical interventions was conducted. To systematically review the evidence supporting...
Anatomic characterization of human ultra-weak photon emission in practitioners of transcendental meditation(TM) and control subjects.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2006 Eduard P A Van Wijk, Heike Koch, Saskia Bosman et al.
Research on human ultra-weak photon emission (UPE, biophoton emission) has raised the question whether a typical human emission anatomic percentage distribution pattern exists in addition to individual subject overall anatomic summation intensity differences. The lowest UPE intensities were observed in two subjects who regularly meditate. Spectral analysis of human UPE has suggested that...
"Spooky actions at a distance": physics, psi, and distant healing.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine October 2005 Drew Leder
Over decades, consciousness research has accumulated evidence of the real and measureable existence of "spooky actions at a distance"--modes of telepathy, telekinesis, clairvoyance, and the like. More recently scientists have begun rigorous study of the effects of distant healing intention and prayer vis-a-vis nonhuman living systems and patients in clinical trials. A barrier to taking such...