European journal of preventive cardiology
November 2015
John O. Younge, Rinske A. Gotink, Cristina P Baena et al.
Due to new treatment modalities in the last decades, a decline in cardiovascular deaths has been observed. There is an emerging field of secondary prevention and behavioural programmes with increased interest in the use of mind-body practices. Until now, these have not been established in cardiovascular disease treatment programmes. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
September 11, 2015
Dav eClark, Frank eSchumann, Stewart H. Mostofsky
Bodily movement has long been employed as a foundation for cultivating mental skills such as attention, self-control or mindfulness, with recent studies documenting the positive impacts of mindful movement training, such as yoga and tai chi. A parallel mind-body connection has also been observed in many developmental disorders. We elaborate a spectrum of mindfulness by considering ADHD, in...
Europe’s Journal of Psychology
August 19, 2015
Håkan Nilsson, Pia H. Bülow, Ali Kazemi
40 citations
The primary aim of this article is to present a new concept called mindful sustainable aging (MSA), which is informed by mindfulness practices that support the physical, the mental, and especially, the social and the existential dimensions of old life. The concept of MSA is discussed and compared with four influential psychosocial theories in the field of gerontology, i.e., activity theory,...
Brain and Behavior
July 1, 2015
Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, Meytal Wilf, Roni Kahana et al.
Mantra (prolonged repetitive verbal utterance) is one of the most universal mental practices in human culture. However, the underlying neuronal mechanisms that may explain its powerful emotional and cognitive impact are unknown. In order to try to isolate the effect of silent repetitive speech, which is used in most commonly practiced Mantra meditative practices, on brain activity, we studied...
Psychiatry Research
June 30, 2015
Florian Kurth, Nicolas Cherbuin, Eileen Luders
Normal aging is known to result in a reduction of gray matter within the hippocampal complex, particularly in the subiculum. The present study was designed to address the question whether the practice of meditation can amend this age-related subicular atrophy. For this purpose, we established the correlations between subicular volume and chronological age within 50 long-term meditators and 50...
Neuropsychologia
June 22, 2015
Lauren A M Lebois, Esther K. Papies, Kaundinya Gopinath et al.
Ruminative thoughts about a stressful event can seem subjectively real, as if the imagined event were happening in the moment. One possibility is that this subjective realism results from simulating the self as engaged in the stressful event (immersion). If so, then the process of decentering--disengaging the self from the event--should reduce the subjective realism associated with immersion,...
Frontiers in Psychology
June 17, 2015
Claire M. Zedelius, Jonathan W. Schooler
124 citations
Based on mixed results linking both mindfulness and its opposing construct mind wandering to enhanced creativity, we predicted that the relationship between mindfulness and creativity might depend on whether creative problems are approached through analytic strategy or through "insight" (i.e., sudden awareness of a solution). Study 1 investigated the relationship between trait mindfulness and...
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
May 1, 2015
Radhika Desai, Anisha Tailor, Tanvi Bhatt
Previous research has shown the vast mental and physical health benefits associated with yoga. Yoga practice can be divided into subcategories that include posture-holding exercise (asana), breathing (pranayama, Kriya), and meditation (Sahaj) practice. Studies measuring mental health outcomes have shown decreases in anxiety, and increases in cognitive performance after yoga interventions....
Journal of Philosophy of Education
May 1, 2015
Sharon Todd
64 citations
Levinas and Theravada Buddhism across and through their differences in order to rethink an education that is committed to 'negative capability' and the sensibility to uncertainty that this entails. In fleshing this out, I first explore Buddhist ideas of impermanence, suffering and non-self (anicca, dukkha, and anatta, respectively), known as the three marks of existence, from the perspective of...
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
April 7, 2015
Ruth A. Lanius, Paul Frewen, Mischa Tursich et al.
Background: Three intrinsic connectivity networks in the brain, namely the central executive, salience, and default mode networks, have been identified as crucial to the understanding of higher cognitive functioning, and the functioning of these networks has been suggested to be impaired in psychopathology, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Objective: 1) To describe three main...