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Schizophrenia Research July 1, 2011 David P Johnson, David L Penn, Barbara L. Fredrickson et al.
This pilot study examined loving-kindness meditation (LKM) with 18 participants with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and significant negative symptoms. Findings indicate that the intervention was feasible and associated with decreased negative symptoms and increased positive emotions and psychological recovery.
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine July 1, 2011 Dounya Schoormans, Ivan Nyklíček
This study examined whether practitioners of two meditation types differ on self-reported mindfulness skills and psychologic well-being. This was a cross-sectional study comparing two convenience meditation groups drawn from local meditation centers, one group practicing mindfulness meditation (MM), and the other practicing transcendental meditation (TM). The study was conducted at several...
Supportive Care in Cancer July 1, 2011 Michiyo Ando, Tatsuya Morita, Tatsuo Akechi et al.
The primary objective of the study was to examine mindfulness-based meditation therapy qualitatively. A secondary goal was to examine the differences in themes selected by Japanese and Western patients receiving this therapy. The subjects were 28 patients who were undergoing anti-cancer treatment. The subjects participated in two sessions of mindfulness-based meditation therapy, including...
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy June 28, 2011 Jason M. Lavender, Kim L Gratz, Matthew T Tull
Although researchers have examined the efficacy of acceptance- and mindfulness-based interventions in the treatment of eating disorders, few studies have explored the association between trait mindfulness and eating pathology. Therefore, the purpose of the current investigation was to examine the unique associations between multiple facets of mindfulness (acting with awareness, nonreactivity,...
Mental Health, Religion & Culture June 27, 2011 Heather A. Mastrianno 3 citations
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of Zen meditation on security and satisfaction in monogamous relationships. Levels of security and satisfaction as described by interpersonal theorist Harry Stack Sullivan, as well as meditation experience, were analysed via survey data. Data were collected via the Internet from 405 men and women who were 18 years of age or older and had...
Journal of Affective Disorders June 25, 2011
Mindfulness, response styles and dysfunctional attitudes in bipolar disorder.
Mindfulness June 18, 2011 Paul A. M. van den Hurk, Tom Wingens, Fabio Giommi et al.
Mindfulness meditation (MM) has often been suggested to induce fundamental changes in the way events in life are experienced and dealt with, presumably leading to alterations in personality. However, the relationship between the practice of MM and personality has not been systematically studied. The aim of this study was to explore this relationship and to investigate the mediating role of...
Philosophical Psychology June 17, 2011 Josh Weisberg 6 citations
Most materialist responses to the zombie argument against materialism take either a “type-A” or “type-B” approach: they either deny the conceivability of zombies or accept their conceivability while denying their possibility. However, a “type-Q” materialist approach, inspired by Quinean suspicions about a priority and modal entailment, rejects the sharp line between empirical and conceptual...
June 14, 2011 J. Kabat‐Zinn
The author recounts some of the early history of what is now known as MBSR, and its relationship to mainstream medicine and the science of the mind/body connection and health. He stresses the importance that MBSR and other mindfulness-based interventions be grounded in a universal dharma understanding that is congruent with Buddhadharma but not constrained by its historical, cultural and...
Neuroscience Research June 13, 2011
Impact of meditation on emotional processing--a visual ERP study.
Medical Hypotheses June 12, 2011
A theoretical model of efficacy of concentrative meditation for cognitive rehabilitation of dementia.
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics June 9, 2011 David J. Kearney, Kelly McDermott, Michelle E. Martinez et al. 63 citations
BACKGROUND: Stress perception and GI-specific anxiety play key roles in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a widely available stress reduction course, which has not been evaluated for IBS. AIM: To determine whether participation in MBSR is associated with improvement in bowel symptoms, GI-specific anxiety, and IBS-Quality of Life. METHODS: This is a...
Journal of Clinical Psychology June 6, 2011
Mindfulness as a moderator in expressive writing.
Neuroimage June 6, 2011 Eileen Luders, Kristi Clark, Katherine L Narr et al.
Very little is currently known about the cerebral characteristics that underlie the complex processes of meditation as only a limited number of studies have addressed this topic. Research exploring structural connectivity in meditation practitioners is particularly rare. We thus acquired diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data of high angular and spatial resolution and used atlas-based tract...
The Sport Psychologist June 1, 2011 Cian Aherne, Aidan Moran, Chris Lonsdale 262 citations
This study investigated the relationship between mindfulness training (a nonjudgmental attentional training technique) and flow experiences in athletes. Participants were 13 university athletes (M = 21 years), assigned either to a control group or an experimental group. Flow experiences were assessed before and after the intervention. ANOVA (group x time) of global scores on the Flow State...
British Journal of Occupational Therapy June 1, 2011 Graham Stew
Introduction: This article describes the experiences of occupational therapy students over the course of three mindfulness programmes, designed to support them in managing stress in their personal and professional lives. Method: Hermeneutic phenomenology was used to explore the experiences and perceptions of 20 students undertaking these introductory programmes of mindfulness. Data were...
Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice June 2011 Johannes Michalak, Anne Hölz, Tobias Teismann
In mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), it is proposed that training in mindfulness should reduce the tendency of formerly depressed patients to enter into ruminative thinking, thus reducing their risk of depressive relapse. However, data showing that rumination is associated with depressive relapse are lacking. In an uncontrolled study with 24 formerly depressed patients, rumination was...
Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy June 2011 Lobsang Rapgay, Alexander Bystritsky, Roger E Dafter et al.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) severely impacts social functioning, distress levels, and utilization of medical care compared with that of other major psychiatric disorders. Neither pharmacological nor psychotherapy interventions have adequately controlled cardinal symptoms of GAD: pervasive excessive anxiety and uncontrollable worry. Research has established cognitive behavioral therapy...
Psychotherapy June 2011 Daphne M Davis, Jeffrey A Hayes
Research suggests that mindfulness practices offer psychotherapists a way to positively affect aspects of therapy that account for successful treatment. This paper provides psychotherapists with a synthesis of the empirically supported advantages of mindfulness. Definitions of mindfulness and evidence-based interpersonal, affective, and intrapersonal benefits of mindfulness are presented....
Journal of Holistic Nursing June 2011 Cecile A Lengacher, Versie Johnson-Mallard, Michelle Barta et al.
To assess the feasibility of whether mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has a positive effect on breast cancer survivors' psychological status, psychosocial characteristics, symptoms, and quality of life (QOL) during the critical transition period from end of treatment to resumption of daily activities. Single-group, quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design. A sample of 19 women who...