Context There is growing interest in the integration of meditation in higher education. Purpose Here, we review evidence bearing on the utility of meditation to facilitate the achievement of traditional educational goals and to enhance education of the “whole person.” Research Design We examine how meditation practices may help foster important cognitive skills of attention and information...
NICE guidelines indicate one in five people will suffer from depression at some point in their lives with relapse rates of 50–80% in those who have experienced one or more episodes of depression (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [NICE], 2007). By 2020, depression is predicted to be the second largest cause of death or disability and consequently there is a need to explore...
IntroductionThe measure of complex dimensionality assesses the number of independent processes that generate an observed time series.ObjectivesTo investigate whether meditation exercises are associated with fewer or more independently active brain processes, and whether different meditation traditions show different results.AimsDoes brain electric complex dimensionality differ between the state...
IntroductionDifferent meditation practices reportedly affect brain electric activity.ObjectivesTo assess common characteristics in brain electric activity during the state of meditation across different meditation traditions.AimsDo meditation traditions share commonalities in EEG spectral power changes from task-free resting to meditation?MethodsData from 71 experienced meditators of five...
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to assess the general acceptability and to assess domains of potential effect of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and at-risk urban youth. METHODS: Thirteen-to twenty-one-year-old youth were recruited from the pediatric primary care clinic of an urban tertiary care hospital to...
BACKGROUND: Approximately 20-40% of outpatients with diabetes experience elevated levels of emotional distress, varying from disease-specific distress to general symptoms of anxiety and depression. The patient's emotional well-being is related to other unfavorable outcomes, like reduced quality of life, sub-optimal self-care, impaired glycemic control, higher risk of complications, and...