Sasha Mallya
Approximately 14.9% of Canadians aged 65 and older are living with cognitive impairment, including dementia, which means that there is likely an equal or even greater number of Canadians involved in their care. Relative to non-caregivers, caregivers of persons with dementia typically show more cognitive difficulties (e.g., executive function, memory), and report increased perceived stress,...
Aidan Smyth, Marina Milyavskaya
preprint
Recent research suggests that mindfulness meditation may impair motivation towards traditional laboratory tasks. The present research explored the effects of meditation on motivation towards personal goals and an anagram task. In Study 1 (n = 200), participants in the mindfulness condition reported greater goal motivation than those in a comparison podcast condition (due to a decrease in the...
Magnus Liebher, Yi-Yuan Tang
BACKGROUND: Since the 1970s, psychological and neuroscientific research has had an increasing interest in mindfulness meditation. The resulting findings were followed by various programs which are based on the same idea: mindfulness meditation is a process of openly attending, with awareness to one’s present moment experience. In recent years the traditional programs have been turned more and...
Vasco Brazão, Andrew Hafenbrack, Joao Pedro Niza Braga et al.
preprint
This is the final version of the scoping review protocol, published as a preprint to create full transparency about the scoping review process. This scoping review aims to map the methods used to study brief (< 30 min) mindfulness meditation inductions.
Cancer Nursing
Sheeja Perumbil Pathrose, Bronwyn Everett, Pandora Patterson et al.
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have demonstrated benefits for adults with chronic illness and are becoming increasingly popular among children and young people. Mindfulness-based interventions could have benefits for young people with cancer throughout the treatment journey, through to survivorship. The aim was to review intervention studies about MBI used with young people with cancer...
Lucas Galdino, Gabriella Medeiros Silva, Thiago A. S. Bonifácio et al.
preprint
Abstract: The main purpose of this pilot study was to investigate the immediate effects of Automatic Self-Transcending (AST) meditation on the cognitive function, EEG activity and autonomic arousal (Study 1) and characterize the frontal EEG synchrony during resting state, cognitive activity and AST mental states in traditional and wireless EEG’s (Study 2). We report the results of three healthy...
Takuma Miyoshi, Kensuke Tanioka, Shoko Yamamoto et al.
preprint
Abstract: This study examines the short-term effects of focused-attention meditation on functional brain state in novice meditators. There are a number of feature metrics for functional brain states, such as functional connectivity, graph theoretical metrics, and amplitude of low frequency fluctuation (ALFF). It is necessary to choose appropriate metrics and also to specify the region of...
Julio Rodriguez-Larios, Pascal L Faber, Peter Achermann et al.
preprint
Abstract: Neural activity is known to oscillate within discrete frequency bands and the synchronization between these rhythms is hypothesized to underlie information integration in the brain. Since strict synchronization is only possible for harmonic frequencies, a recent theory proposes that the interaction between different brain rhythms is facilitated by transient harmonic frequency...
Micah Cearns, Scott R Clark
BACKGROUND: The efficacy of digital meditation is well established. However, the extent to which the benefits remain after 12 weeks in real-world settings remains unknown. Additionally, findings related to dosage and practice habits have been mixed, and the studies were conducted on small and homogeneous samples and used a limited range of analytical procedures and meditation techniques....
Holistic Nursing Practice
Pingting Zhu, Xinyi Liu, Xingchen Shang et al.
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been receiving growing attention in cancer care. This study evaluated the impact of the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on quality of life, psychological distress (anxiety and depression), and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in patients with breast cancer under early chemotherapy. A total of 101 patients with breast cancer under...