Psychosomatic Medicine
March 1, 1986
E M Morrell, J G Hollandsworth
The present study reexamined an investigation that found enhanced plasma norepinephrine (NE) levels during isometric handgrip after 30 days of meditation practice. Since hemodynamic activity did not show corresponding increases, it was suggested that meditation had down regulated the cardiovascular response to sympathetic stimulation. The present study assessed response to venipuncture as well...
International Journal of Neuroscience
March 1986
Michael C. Dillbeck, S A Vesely
This study assesses variation in frontal bilateral EEG coherence among normal subjects during trials of a concept learning task; the task used a concept-reversal paradigm found from prior research to distinguish frontal lobe patients from normal adults. Subjects were either participants in the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program or controls matched for age, sex, and intellectual ability, and...
Postgraduate Medical Journal
1986
B I Joffe, H C Seftel; Hormonal and biochemical responses to transcendental meditation, Postgraduate Medical Journal, Volume 62, Issue 723, 1 January 1986,
Psychophysiology
1986
Frederick J. Heide
ABSTRACTThe Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique has been reported to produce cortical states of both steady responsiveness and lack of responsiveness to external stimulation during meditation. The present study examined alpha blocking, skin conductance, and phasic heart rate response to 80dB tones in 17 TM meditators and 17 controls. There were no significant differences between groups in...
Clinical Journal of Pain
1986
Jon Kabat‐zinn, Leslie Lipworth, R. Burncy et al.
485 citations
Two hundred twenty-five chronic pain patients were studied following training in mindfulness meditation. Large and significant overall improvements were recorded post-intervention in physical and psychological status. These gains were maintained at follow-up in the majority of subjects. Follow-up times ranged from 2.5–48 months. Status on the McUill Melzack Fain Rating Index (PRI). however,...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
July 1, 1985
Michael Kahn
Theravada Buddhism and Reich's psychobiology appear at first to be polar opposites. Yet there is a Theravada school of meditation, the Vipassana of U Ba Khin, which in both theory and practice turns out to be remarkably close to Reich's worldview and his therapy. The major differences between Reich and this branch of Buddhism are the attitudes toward life and movement, Reich being strongly pro,...
British Journal of Educational Psychology
June 1, 1985
Paul Kember
S ummary . Twenty students taking the first year of an MSc course at Cranfield Institute of Technology were randomly allocated to a Transcendental Meditation or control group. There was some evidence that six months' practice of Transcendental Meditation produced an improvement in postgraduate academic performance.
Journal of Behavioral Medicine
June 1985
Jon Kabat‐zinn, Leslie Lipworth, Robert Burney
Ninety chronic pain patients were trained in mindfulness meditation in a 10-week Stress Reduction and Relaxation Program. Statistically significant reductions were observed in measures of present-moment pain, negative body image, inhibition of activity by pain, symptoms, mood disturbance, and psychological symptomatology, including anxiety and depression. Pain-related drug utilization decreased...
PSYCHOLOGIA
1985
Michael Delmonte, Vincent Kenny
9 citations
This review seeks to address the usefulness of meditation as a therapeutic intervention in the framework of conceptual models of the meditation experience.It is concluded that meditation practice may be associated with the acquisition of some useful skills (e.g., focussed attention), that practice may be physiologically relaxing, that meditation may enhance hypnotic induction and decrease...
American Journal of Psychiatry
1985
165 citations
A framework for the integration of meditation and psychotherapy is presented through a consideration of the psychobiological nature of meditation (the relaxation response) and discussion of a traditional meditation practice (mindfulness meditation) as an effective cognitive technique for the development of self-awareness. The mechanisms by which the emotional and cognitive changes of meditation...