Meditative practices and their application to the treatment of anxiety and depression - literature review
Akvilė Gečaitė, Algirdas Musneckis
Medical Sciences May 11, 2023 DOI: 10.53453/ms.2023.5.3 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Peer reviewed |
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| Topics | Anxiety Depression |
| Key points | The authors frame meditation practices as falling into two main techniques in the scientific literature, mindfulness (open monitoring) and concentrative (transcendental) meditation, and state that these aim to improve psychological capacity for self-regulation. The excerpt is truncated and reports no results. |
Abstract
Akvilė Gečaitė1, Algirdas Musneckis2 1Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania 2The Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Science, Kaunas, Lithuania Abstract Background. In the scientific literature, meditation practices are usually divided into two main techniques: mindfulness (open monitoring) and concentrative (transcendental). They are aiming to improve the psychological capacity of self-regulation […]