A brief body scan mindfulness practice has no positive effect on the recovery of heart rate variability and cognitive tasks in female professional basketball players.
Frontiers in Psychology May 31, 2023 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1196066 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Observational study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | Female professional basketball players |
| Intervention | Body scan mindfulness practice |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key findings | The body scan mindfulness practice had no positive effect on recovery of heart rate variability or cognitive tasks in female professional basketball players. |
Abstract
A brief body scan mindfulness practice has no positive effect on the recovery of heart rate variability and cognitive tasks in female professional basketball players.
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| Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity Experienced meditators and matched meditation-naive controls | 2011 | Observational cohort | |
| Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice Long-term Buddhist practitioners and controls | 2004 | Observational cohort |
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