Long-term Vihangam Yoga meditation and scores on tests of attention.
Perceptual and Motor Skills June 1, 2010
Long-term Vihangam Yoga meditation and scores on tests of attention.
Meditation research published in 2010
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Studies
Meditation as Medicine: A Critique
CrossCurrents June 1, 2010 Wakoh Shannon Hickey 6 citations
Meditation as Medicine: A Critique Wakoh Shannon Hickey Twenty‐seven adults are arrayed at the front of a large, sloping lecture hall: some lying on their backs, some upright in free‐standing chairs, some in the tiers of seats bolted to the floor. Most appear to range in age from mid‐forties to mid‐fifties. The lights are dim, most eyes are closed, and except for occasional fidgeting, everyone...
Depression, craving, and substance use following a randomized trial of mindfulness-based relapse prevention.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology June 1, 2010
Depression, craving, and substance use following a randomized trial of mindfulness-based relapse prevention.
Mindfulness training modifies cognitive, affective, and physiological mechanisms implicated in alcohol dependence: results of a randomized controlled pilot trial.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs June 1, 2010
Mindfulness training modifies cognitive, affective, and physiological mechanisms implicated in alcohol dependence: results of a randomized controlled pilot trial.
Producing intersubjectivity in silence: An ethnographic study of meditation practice
Ethnography June 1, 2010 Michal Pagis 118 citations
The ‘problem of other minds’ is central to sociological theory and of immediate importance to contemporary research on subjectivity and interiority. How do we cultivate and maintain an intersubjective space during silent, private, experiences? Drawing on Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology, this study challenges the common view which regards silence as an obstacle to social relations. The data...
The psychometric properties of the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills in clinical populations.
Assessment June 2010 Corinna Baum, Willem Kuyken, Martin Bohus et al.
The Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS) is a well-validated multidimensional questionnaire measuring dimensions of mindfulness on four scales: Observing, Describing, Act With Awareness, and Accept Without Judgment. Even though the KIMS has been used in several clinical studies no information is available about the psychometric properties in different clinical samples. The present...
Intensive meditation for refractory pain and symptoms.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine June 1, 2010
Intensive meditation for refractory pain and symptoms.
Intensive meditation training improves perceptual discrimination and sustained attention.
Psychological Science June 1, 2010 Katherine A Maclean, Emilio Ferrer, Stephen R Aichele et al. 625 citations
The ability to focus one's attention underlies success in many everyday tasks, but voluntary attention cannot be sustained for extended periods of time. In the laboratory, sustained-attention failure is manifest as a decline in perceptual sensitivity with increasing time on task, known as the vigilance decrement. We investigated improvements in sustained attention with training (approximately 5...
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610371339 (opens in new tab)
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Using Mindfulness Meditation to Teach Beginning Therapists Therapeutic Presence: A Qualitative Study
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy May 27, 2010 Eric E. McCollum, Diane R. Gehart 158 citations
Some of the more difficult to define aspects of the therapeutic process (empathy, compassion, presence) remain some of the most important. Teaching them presents a challenge for therapist trainees and educators alike. In this study, we examine our beginning practicum students' experience of learning mindfulness meditation as a way to help them develop therapeutic presence. Through thematic...
[Acceptance- and mindfulness-based group intervention in advanced type 2 diabetes patients: therapeutic concept and practical experiences].
Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, medizinische Psychologie May 2010 Verena Faude-Lang, Mechthild Hartmann, Eva-Maria Schmidt et al.
Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and early diabetic nephropathy have a poor disease-related prognosis; furthermore these patients are often also mentally stressed. We investigated an acceptance- and mindfulness-based group intervention for these patients in addition to regular medical therapy. Both intervention program and descriptive outcomes of patients' evaluation are presented. A...
Self-report mindfulness as a mediator of psychological well-being in a stress reduction intervention for cancer patients--a randomized study.
Annals of Behavioral Medicine May 2010 Richard Bränström, Pia Kvillemo, Yvonne Brandberg et al.
There is increasing recognition of mindfulness and mindfulness training as a way to decrease stress and increase psychological functioning. The aims of this study were to examine the effects of mindfulness stress reduction training on perceived stress and psychological well-being and to examine if changes in mindfulness mediate intervention effects on these outcomes. Seventy women and one man...
PROTOCOL: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for improving health and social functioning in adults
Campbell Systematic Reviews May 1, 2010 Michael De Vibe, Karianne Thune Hammerstrøm, Krystyna Kowalski et al. 5 citations
Psychological well-being is important for our health and our ability to function well in society. We will, however, all encounter challenging situations in the course of our life, whether it is bereavement, poverty, divorce or other life events that upset our balance. When such situations of psychological distress prevail over time, it may affect our health. The mechanism whereby psychological...
Effects of mindfulness based stress reduction program on depression, anxiety and stress in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society May 2010 Hye Myung Joo, Sung Jae Lee, Yong Gu Chung et al.
In this study, the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program was applied to patients presenting with depression and anxiety after surgery from spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and the effects were assessed. The subjects were patients admitted for cerebral aneurysm rupture and treated by means of surgery from March to December, 2007. More than 6 months had passed after surgery,...
DOI: 10.3340/jkns.2010.47.5.345 (opens in new tab)
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Subarachnoid hemorrhage
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....
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: a low intensity group program to prevent depressive relapse
Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions May 1, 2010 Mark A. Lau
Chapter 43 is concerned with preventing the recurrence of depression. This intervention coincides with the maintenance phase in the IOM spectrum of care. This chapter describes the use of a LI group program based on Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and provides the rationale behind MCBT, the session structure and content of an MCBT program, and the evidence of its effectiveness,...
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)
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Neural correlates of focused attention and cognitive monitoring in meditation.
Brain Research Bulletin April 29, 2010 Antonietta Manna, Antonino Raffone, Mauro Gianni Perrucci et al.
Meditation refers to a family of complex emotional and attentional regulatory practices, which can be classified into two main styles - focused attention (FA) and open monitoring (OM) - involving different attentional, cognitive monitoring and awareness processes. In a functional magnetic resonance study we originally characterized and contrasted FA and OM meditation forms within the same...
Attentional processes and meditation.
Consciousness and Cognition April 28, 2010 Holley S Hodgins, Kathryn C Adair
Visual attentional processing was examined in adult meditators and non-meditators on behavioral measures of change blindness, concentration, perspective-shifting, selective attention, and sustained inattentional blindness. Results showed that meditators (1) noticed more changes in flickering scenes and noticed them more quickly, (2) counted more accurately in a challenging concentration task,...
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.04.002 (opens in new tab)
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Flicker fusion
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Training Teachers to Deliver Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Learning from the UK Experience
Mindfulness April 26, 2010 Rebecca S. Crane, Willem Kuyken, Richard P. Hastings et al. 205 citations
Several randomised controlled trials suggest that mindfulness-based approaches are helpful in preventing depressive relapse and recurrence, and the UK Government's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has recommended these interventions for use in the National Health Service. There are good grounds to suggest that mindfulness-based approaches are also helpful with anxiety...
The effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on recurrence of depressive episodes, mental health and quality of life: A randomized controlled study.
Behaviour Research and Therapy April 18, 2010
The effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on recurrence of depressive episodes, mental health and quality of life: A randomized controlled study.