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Clinical Implication of Meditation in Psychiatry : Focused on Mindfulness Meditation

신경정신의학 2015 Hyu Jung Huh, Sangbin Han, Ye Na Park et al. 2 citations

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DOI: 10.4306/jknpa.2015.54.4.406 Full text

Mindfulness training promotes upward spirals of positive affect and cognition: multilevel and autoregressive latent trajectory modeling analyses.

Frontiers in Psychology 2015 Eric L Garland, Nicole Geschwind, Frenk Peeters et al.

Recent theory suggests that positive psychological processes integral to health may be energized through the self-reinforcing dynamics of an upward spiral to counter emotion dysregulation. The present study examined positive emotion-cognition interactions among individuals in partial remission from depression who had been randomly assigned to treatment with mindfulness-based cognitive therapy...

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00015 Full text Broaden-and-build Emotion regulation Mindfulness training Positive emotion

Study protocol of a multicenter randomized controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of group and individual internet-based Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with treatment as usual in reducing psychological distress in cancer patients: the BeMind study.

BMC Psychology 2015 Felix R. Compen, Else Bisseling, Marije L. van der Lee et al.

Mindfulness-based interventions have shown to reduce psychological distress in cancer patients. The accessibility of mindfulness-based interventions for cancer patients could be further improved by providing mindfulness using an individual internet-based format. The aim of this study is to test the effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) group intervention for cancer...

DOI: 10.1186/s40359-015-0084-1 Full text Cancer Distress E-health Internet-based +2

Disciplined Improvisation: Characteristics of Inquiry in Mindfulness-Based Teaching.

Mindfulness 2015 Rebecca S. Crane, Steven M. Stanley, Michael Rooney et al.

Evidence for the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is rapidly growing as interest in this field expands. By contrast, there are few empirical analyses of the pedagogy of MBSR and MBCT. Development of the evidence base concerning the teaching of MBCT or MBSR would support the integrity of the approach in the context of rapid...

DOI: 10.1007/s12671-014-0361-8 Full text Conversation analysis Inquiry Integrity Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy +2

Mindfulness meditation modulates reward prediction errors in a passive conditioning task.

Frontiers in Psychology 2015 Ulrich Kirk, P Read Montague

Reinforcement learning models have demonstrated that phasic activity of dopamine neurons during reward expectation encodes information about the predictability of reward and cues that predict reward. Self-control strategies such as those practiced in mindfulness-based approaches is claimed to reduce negative and positive reactions to stimuli suggesting the hypothesis that such training may...

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00090 Full text Mindfulness Classical Conditioning FMRI Bold +2

Larger hippocampal dimensions in meditation practitioners: differential effects in women and men.

Frontiers in Psychology 2015 Eileen Luders, Paul M Thompson, Florian Kurth

On average, the human hippocampus shows structural differences between meditators and non-meditators as well as between men and women. However, there is a lack of research exploring possible sex effects on hippocampal anatomy in the framework of meditation. Thus, we obtained high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging data from 30 long-term meditation practitioners (15 men/15 women) and 30...

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00186 Full text Mindfulness MRI Brain Gender +3

Mindfulness Trait Predicts Neurophysiological Reactivity Associated with Negativity Bias: An ERP Study.

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2015 Nerissa S P Ho, Delin Sun, Kin-Hung Ting et al.

This study explored the relationship of mindfulness trait with the early and late stages of affective processing, by examining the two corresponding ERP components, P2 and LPP, collected from twenty-two male Chinese participants with a wide range of meditation experiences. Multiple regression analyses was performed on the mindfulness scores, as measured by CAMS-R, with the subjective affective...

DOI: 10.1155/2015/212368 Full text

Effortless Attention as a Biomarker for Experienced Mindfulness Practitioners.

PLoS One 2015 Guaraci Ken Tanaka, Tolou Maslahati, Mariana Gongora et al.

The present study aimed at comparing frontal beta power between long-term (LTM) and first-time meditators (FTM), before, during and after a meditation session. We hypothesized that LTM would present lower beta power than FTM due to lower effort of attention and awareness. Twenty one participants were recruited, eleven of whom were long-term meditators. The subjects were asked to rest for 4...

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138561 Full text

The Influence of Buddhist Meditation Traditions on the Autonomic System and Attention

BioMed Research International 2015 Ido Amihai, Maria Kozhevnikov 73 citations

Cognitive and neuroscience research from the past several years has shed new light on the influences that meditative traditions have on the meditation practice. Here we review new evidence that shows that types of meditation that developed out of certain traditions such as Vajrayana and Hindu Tantric lead to heightened sympathetic activation and phasic alertness, while types of meditation from...

DOI: 10.1155/2015/731579 Full text

A Phenomenological Meditation on Shinya Tsukamoto’s Vital

Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis 2015 George Berguno

The present paper pays tribute to Shinya Tsukamoto, one of Japan's best known, albeit controversial, filmmakers. To begin with, the author identifies a form of writing called the phenomenological meditation; and claims this unique form of writing as an act of rebellion against intellectual constraints. The author then proceeds to illustrate the phenomenological meditation by means of a...

DOI: 10.65828/99ta3553