BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
June 1, 2012
Gaelle Desbordes, Riccardo Barbieri, Luca Citi et al.
We collected electrocardiogram recordings as part of a larger randomized controlled trial of the effects of an eight-week meditation training intervention on healthy adults without prior meditation experience. Here we report data from eight subjects before and after the “mindful-attention” meditation intervention and the control intervention. The recordings were performed while the subjects...
May 30, 2012
Mendhurwar Ss, Gadkari Jv
For present study 75 volunteers between 20-40 years were selected (37 males and 38 females) Volunteers were trained for Tran- scendental meditation (TM.) After training period they practiced TM every day 20 minutes for 6 weeks. Anxiety score was measured by us- ing clinical anxiety scale (C.A.S.) as given by R.P.Sainath et al (1) before and after the TM session in each volunteer. Comparison of...
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
May 29, 2012
B Rael Cahn, Arnaud Delorme, John Polich
Long-term Vipassana meditators sat in meditation vs. a control (instructed mind wandering) states for 25 min, electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded and condition order counterbalanced. For the last 4 min, a three-stimulus auditory oddball series was presented during both meditation and control periods through headphones and no task imposed. Time-frequency analysis demonstrated that...
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
May 28, 2012
Judson A. Brewer, Hani M. Elwafi, Jake H. Davis
Humans suffer heavily from substance use disorders and other addictions. Despite much effort that has been put into understanding the mechanisms of the addictive process, treatment strategies have remained suboptimal over the past several decades. Mindfulness training, which is based on ancient Buddhist models of human suffering, has recently shown preliminary efficacy in treating addictions....
Disability and Rehabilitation
May 24, 2012
Ragupathy Sendhilkumar, Anupam Gupta, Raghuram Nagarathna et al.
39 citations
Objective: To study the add-on effects of pranayama and meditation in rehabilitation of patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Patients and Method: This randomized control pilot study was conducted in neurological rehabilitation unit of university tertiary research hospital. Twenty-two GBS patients, who consented for the study and satisfied selection criteria, were randomly assigned to...
PLoS One
May 15, 2012
A Chiesa, A Chiesa, A Chiesa et al.
217 citations
Two experiments examined the relation between mindfulness practice and cognitive rigidity by using a variation of the Einstellung water jar task. Participants were required to use three hypothetical jars to obtain a specific amount of water. Initial problems were solvable by the same complex formula, but in later problems (“critical” or “trap” problems) solving was possible by an additional...
Assessment
May 14, 2012
Tory A. Eisenlohr‐Moul, Erin C. Walsh, Richard Charnigo et al.
139 citations
Although self-report measures of dispositional mindfulness have good psychometric properties, a few studies have shown unexpected positive correlations between substance use and mindfulness scales measuring observation of present-moment experience. The current study tested the hypothesis that the relationship between present-moment observation and substance use is moderated by the tendency to...
Psychological Bulletin
May 14, 2012
Peter Sedlmeier, Juliane Eberth, Marcus Schwarz et al.
910 citations
In this meta-analysis, we give a comprehensive overview of the effects of meditation on psychological variables that can be extracted from empirical studies, concentrating on the effects of meditation on nonclinical groups of adult meditators. Mostly because of methodological problems, almost ¾ of an initially identified 595 studies had to be excluded. Most studies appear to have been conducted...
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
May 13, 2012
Philippe R. Goldin, Michal Ziv, Hooria Jazaieri et al.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is thought to reduce emotional reactivity and enhance emotion regulation in patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD). The goal of this study was to examine the neural correlates of deploying attention to regulate responses to negative self-beliefs using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants were 56 patients with generalized SAD in a...
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
May 7, 2012
Do‐hyung Kang, Hang Joon Jo, Wi Hoon Jung et al.
A convergent line of neuroscientific evidence suggests that meditation alters the functional and structural plasticity of distributed neural processes underlying attention and emotion. The purpose of this study was to examine the brain structural differences between a well-matched sample of long-term meditators and controls. We employed whole-brain cortical thickness analysis based on magnetic...