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...
Psicooncología
June 1, 2011
Angela Palao, Beatriz Rodríguez, Amador Priede et al.
9 citations
The population of cancer survivors is increasing due to advances in medicine. Achieving an increase in survival is not enough and the focus is on improving the quality of life in all its dimensions, including psychological and spiritual. New psychosocial needs arise in this population. In general, major mental disorders such as major depression or PTSD are rare among survivors, while less...
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...