Multiple sclerosis journal - experimental, translational and clinical
October 1, 2018
Susan Agland, Amanda Lydon, Sally Shaw et al.
Background: Despite evidence of perceived stress as a risk factor for multiple sclerosis activity, the evidence for managing stress is limited.Objective To evaluate a stress management programme on perceived stress and quality of life, over 6 months. Methods: One hundred people with multiple sclerosis were randomly assigned to either a stress management programme of mindfulness, meditation and...
The Journal of social psychology
October 1, 2018
Jared Weintraub, Murugan Pattusamy, Scott B Dust
This study seeks to disentangle the effect of polychronicity on work-home conflict, home-work conflict, and life satisfaction, by evaluating mindfulness as a moderator. We propose that mindfulness moderates the relationship between polychronicity and work-home and home-work conflict such that the relationship will be negative when mindfulness is high and positive when mindfulness is low....
Cognition
October 2018
Matthew J Voss, Meera Zukosky, Ranxiao Frances Wang
Although widely studied, the process of how mind wandering occurs and is subsequently sustained still remains unclear. Moreover, the traditional concept of mind wandering tendency/frequency based on the self- or probe-caught methods alone is incoherent and problematic. We developed a new approach to characterize the mind wandering process by combining the self-caught and probe-caught methods to...
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
October 2018
Sandi M Tenfelde, Lena Hatchett, Karen L Saban
To explore African American (AA) women's use of mind-body therapies, such as yoga and mindfulness, and factors that impact their experiences, observations and opinions. Focus groups were conducted to better understand how AA women perceive mind-body therapies and how to best bring these interventions into their community. Interviews were audiotaped and transcribed. The urban Midwest. In...
Asian Journal of Psychiatry
October 2018
Naren P. Rao, Gopikrishna Deshpande, Kalyani Bangalore Gangadhar et al.
OM chanting is an ancient technique of Indian meditation. OM chanting is associated with an experience of relaxation, changes in autonomic balance and deactivation of limbic brain regions. While functional localization is important, how brain regions interact with each other has been shown to underlie various brain functions. Therefore, in this study, we tested the hypothesis that there is...
American Journal of Psychiatry
October 1, 2018
Jill E Bormann, Steven R Thorp, Eric Smith et al.
Previous studies suggest that group "mantram" (sacred word) repetition therapy, a non-trauma-focused complementary therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), may be an effective treatment for veterans. The authors compared individually delivered mantram repetition therapy and another non-trauma-focused treatment for PTSD. The study was a two-site, open-allocation, blinded-assessment...
Substance Abuse
September 20, 2018
Cynthia J Price, Elaine A Thompson, Sheila E Crowell et al.
Background: Sensory information gained through interoceptive awareness may play an important role in affective behavior and successful inhibition of drug use. This study examined the immediate pre-post effects of the mind-body intervention Mindful Awareness in Body-oriented Therapy (MABT) as an adjunct to women's substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. MABT teaches interoceptive awareness...
Experimental Brain Research
September 2018
Tracy Brandmeyer, Arnaud Delorme
One outstanding question in the contemplative science literature relates to the direct impact of meditation experience on the monitoring of internal states and its respective correspondence with neural activity. In particular, to what extent does meditation influence the awareness, duration and frequency of the tendency of the mind to wander. To assess the relation between mind wandering and...
Explore
September 2018
Apar Avinash Saoji, B R Raghavendra, Kshamashree Madle et al.
The practice of yoga is associated with enhanced psychological wellbeing. The current study assessed the correlation between the duration of yoga practice with state mindfulness, mind-wandering and state anxiety. Also, we examined if an additional 20 min of yoga breathing with intermittent breath holding (experimental group) for 8 weeks would affect these psychological variables more than...
Evolutionary applications
September 2018
Fred W Allendorf
The Buddha taught that everything is connected and constantly changing. These fundamental observations of the world are shared by ecology and evolution. We are living in a time of unprecedented rates of extinction. Science provides us with the information that we need to address this extinction crisis. However, the problems underlying extinction generally do not result from a lack of scientific...