Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
2026
Uğur Doğan, Hung Jen Kuo
Veterans with physical disabilities may experience substantial psychological burden (e.g., PTSD symptoms) and practical barriers to accessing conventional mental health services. VR-assisted meditation could offer a low-threshold alternative, but evidence in this population remains limited. The objective of this study was to examine the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a...
PLoS One
2026
Young Im Cho, Hyo Jin Kim, Dong Hee Kim
Nursing students experience stress that negatively affects their mental well-being and academic performance. Conventional mindfulness-based interventions are too long to fit the students' demanding schedules. This study aimed to examine the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of an adapted Meditation-Mindfulness-Positive Psychology Training (MMPT) program tailored to nursing students'...
Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria
2026
Eduardo Aliende Perin, Nelson Carvas, Vinicius Tassoni Civile et al.
To evaluate the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions for adults with obsessivecompulsive disorder. A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted according to Cochrane Handbook guidelines. Two independent reviewers selected randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing mindfulness-based interventions with active control interventions, including cognitive/behavioral techniques and...
Heart & Lung
2026
Tania T Von Visger, Yu-Ping Chang
Adults with pulmonary hypertension (PH) live with a high symptom burden, psychological distress, and poor quality of life. Mindfulness-based interventions delivered in person or virtually have shown clinical benefits for chronic conditions and PH. Pilot testing of the Mindfulness Meditation for Pulmonary Hypertension (MMPH), an 8-week, web-based, multimodal program, shows improvement in...
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
2026
Bassam Abomoelak, Nidhi Kapoor, Mary Schreck et al.
The impact of various meditation interventions on modifying human health outcomes has been demonstrated at both cognitive and cellular levels. Preksha Dhyana (PD) meditation has previously shown effects on cognitive skills, transcriptome, and the DNA methylome in healthy, novice college students. In this study, we performed a cross-platform metabolomic and lipidomic analysis of serum samples...
Frontiers in Public Health
2026
Neelam Oswal, Pranita Jagtap, Pradnya Dasarwar
The present study was designed to evaluate the effect of regular ānāpāna practice, a beginning step of vipassanā meditation, in the framework of the MITRA program, over one academic year, on attention and mental well-being among secondary school students. Two classes of 8th-grade students from a single school were treated either as experimental group (EG: n = 44) or control group (CG: n = 45),...
The National medical journal of India
2026
Ozlem Ecem Ograk, Merve Eksioglu, Tuba Cimilli Ozturk et al.
Background We aimed to evaluate the effects of yoga and guided meditation on stress, anxiety, and well-being in emergency medicine residents. Methods We randomly assigned 81 participants to yoga, guided meditation, or control using a single-level block randomization design. The yoga group attended Hatha yoga classes twice a week, the meditation group learned the technique with audio recordings...
Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
2026
Anna Rumjahn
In K-12 environments where teacher burnout and attrition are increasingly prevalent, where can educational professionals seek sustainable approaches to reduce exhaustion, emotional demands, and uncertainty? In this paper, I extend Christopher McCaw’s research on the direct and dynamic relationship between contemplative practices and who teachers are and are becoming. By examining the current...
Frontiers in cognition
2026
Lorne Schussel
Over the past century, research on meditation and mindfulness has aimed to characterize the behavioral phenomenology and the neurophysiology of the contemplative mind. In recent years, investigators have extended this work beyond single participants to dyads and larger groups using hyperscanning (the simultaneous recording of neural activity from two or more individuals). This narrative review...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
2026
Kiana Ward
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Non-dual awareness (NDA) refers to a shift in consciousness in which the usual distinction between subject and object dissolves, and experience is no longer structured by conceptual mediation or goal-directed regulation. Meling enactivist model describes NDA as a meditative disclosure of groundlessness-the recognition of emptiness (śūnyatā), that all phenomena lack intrinsic nature. While...
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
2026
Seth Zuihō Segall
Western Buddhist scholarship and scientific psychology both emerged during the late Victorian era. Buddhism and scientific psychology have exerted mutual influences on each other since psychology’s inception. The Background and Context section of this entry explores how and why psychologists became interested in Buddhism, Buddhism’s history and core tenets, and Buddhism’s influence on...
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
2026
Nicola De Pisapia
Mindfulness refers to a family of contemplative practices and states related to the cultivation of awareness, presence, and equanimity. Originally rooted in Buddhist traditions, mindfulness has undergone a significant transformation as it entered Western psychological discourse, particularly within cognitive, neuroscientific, educational, and clinical frameworks. This chapter explores the...
Human Brain Mapping
2026
Henrik Röhr, Daniel A Atad, Fynn-Mathis Trautwein et al.
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The sense of self is a multidimensional feature of human experience. Different dimensions of self-experience can change drastically during altered states of consciousness induced through meditation or psychedelic drugs, as well as in a variety of mental disorders. Some experienced meditation practitioners are able to modulate their sense of self deliberately, which allows for a direct...
Imaging Neuroscience
2026
Hagar Tal, Winson F.z. Yang, Matthew D. Sacchet
Neurofeedback (NF) has been proposed as a tool to support and expand access to meditation practice. Despite growing interest, no comprehensive review has examined neurofeedback for meditation-based interventions (NF-MED) across the full spectrum of practices. Here, we conducted a scoping systematic review according to PRISMA guidelines, mapping the NF-MED field across both clinical and...
Handbook of Transformative Philosophy
2026
Rick Repetti
This chapter explores the concept of awareness: what it is, why it is philosophically problematic, and how it is presupposed in almost everything that matters to people. This chapter has three parts. The first part explores the history of the transformative power of awareness in the West. The second part employs analytic philosophy to explore meanings and problems of defining awareness and...
PLoS One
2026
Aliya Islam, Javeria Rehman, Sumbul Mujeeb et al.
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The transition from dental student to practicing dentist is often accompanied by high level of stress and risk of burnout. This shift from academic to professional roles can overwhelm students and compromise their well-being. Addressing burnout early is essential to maintain academic performance, resilience, and quality patient care. Mindfulness interventions have shown increasing empirical...
Frontiers in Psychology
2026
James Meaden
Burnout among knowledge workers presents a puzzle: many workers report persistent burnout despite relatively favorable conditions, and interventions show limited lasting effects. Dominant resource models assume rest restores function, yet cannot fully explain why recovery fails despite adequate time, why burnout remains stable despite accumulating resources, or why mindfulness intervention...