Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
May 22, 2014
Marieke Karlijn van Vugt, Peter eHitchcock, Ben eShahar et al.
Objectives: Converging research suggests that mindfulness training exerts its therapeutic effectson depression by reducing rumination. Theoretically, rumination is a multifaceted construct thataggregates multiple neurocognitive aspects of depression, including poor executive control,negative and overgeneral memory bias, and persistence or stickiness of negative mind states.Current measures of...
Frontiers in Psychology
May 22, 2014
Aviva Eberkovich-Ohana, Yair Edor-Ziderman, Joseph Eglicksohn et al.
170 citations
Meditation practice can lead to what have been referred to as 'altered states of consciousness'. One of the phenomenological characteristics of these states is a joint alteration in the sense of time, space and body. Here, we set out to study the unique experiences of alteration in the sense of time and space by collaborating with a select group of 12 long-term Mindfulness meditation...
Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy
May 20, 2014
Eric L Garland
Prescription opioid misuse and addiction among chronic pain patients are problems of growing medical and social significance. Chronic pain patients often require intervention to improve their well-being and functioning, and yet, the most commonly available form of pharmacotherapy for chronic pain is centered on opioid analgesics--drugs that have high abuse liability. Consequently, health care...
Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation
May 14, 2014
Asieh Ahani, Helané Wahbeh, Hooman Nezamfar et al.
165 citations
BACKGROUND: This study investigates measures of mindfulness meditation (MM) as a mental practice, in which a resting but alert state of mind is maintained. A population of older people with high stress level participated in this study, while electroencephalographic (EEG) and respiration signals were recorded during a MM intervention. The physiological signals during meditation and control...
Journal of Psychosomatic Research
May 1, 2014
Rebecca Abbott, R. Whear, Lauren R. Rodgers et al.
OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on psychological and physical outcomes for people with vascular disease. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. DATA SOURCES AMED, CINAHL, EMBASE, British Nursing Index, Medline, Web of Science, PsycINFO, Cochrane Database of...
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May 1, 2014
F. Bottaccioli, A. Carosella, R. Cardone et al.
CONTEXT Meditation is proposed as an anti-stress practice lowering allostatic load and promoting well-being, with brief formats providing some of the benefits of longer interventions. OBJECTIVES PsychoNeuroEndocrinoImmunology-based meditation (PNEIMED) combines the teaching of philosophy and practice of Buddhist meditation with a grounding in human physiology from a systemic and integrative...
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
May 1, 2014
Susaree Prakhinkit, Siriluck Suppapitiporn, Hirofumi Tanaka et al.
The objectives of this study were to determine the effects of the novel Buddhism-based walking meditation (BWM) and the traditional walking exercise (TWE) on depression, functional fitness, and vascular reactivity. This was a randomized exercise intervention study. The study was conducted in a university hospital setting. Forty-five elderly participants aged 60-90 years with mild-to-moderate...
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
April 26, 2014
Eric L Garland, Elizabeth A. Thomas, Matthew O Howard
Context: Chronic pain impacts one-third of the U.S. population, and its effects are debilitating for individuals and costly to the medical system. Although opioids are commonly prescribed to address chronic pain, they confer risk for misuse and addiction in some patients and may not fully restore life function-particularly with regard to psychosocial factors. Because of the multiplicity of...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
April 23, 2014
Kim E Innes, Terry Kit Selfe
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic, progressive, brain disorder that affects at least 5.3 million Americans at an estimated cost of $148 billion, figures that are expected to rise steeply in coming years. Despite decades of research, there is still no cure for AD, and effective therapies for preventing or slowing progression of cognitive decline in at-risk populations remain elusive....
April 22, 2014
Laurențiu Mitrofan, M. Chraif, F. Golu et al.
Abstract There are many ways of improving driving, but recently the researchers revealed that lower anxiety and aggression correlated with high skills seems to be the key of an efficient safety driving. In this study we are trying to prove the effect of the UCM technique on reducing the drivers anxiety and to reveal a link between reducing anxiety and improving performance. The participants...