International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
April 12, 2021
Hao Chen, Chao Liu, Xinyi Cao et al.
55 citations
BACKGROUND: In the context of increasing doctor-patient tensions in China, the objective of this study was to explore and examine the effects of loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on doctors' mindfulness, empathy, and communication skills. METHODS: A total of 106 doctors were recruited from a hospital in China, and randomly divided into an LKM training group (n = 53) and waiting control group (n...
Journal of Palliative Medicine
April 5, 2021
Jordan A Carver, Katharine L. Cheung
Kidney failure, or end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), is a life-altering condition, with a one-year mortality rate of 20%–25%, 1 and the incidence is expected to rise 11%–18% by 2030, compared with 2015 levels. 2 Patients with kidney failure experience a high burden of symptoms that are often unaddressed during their dialysis treatments. The COVID-19 pandemic
Applied Cognitive Psychology
April 4, 2021
Kyriaki Giannou, Charlie D. Frowd, Jason R. Taylor et al.
8 citations
Summary Meditative mindfulness practices, promoting sustained attention and reducing mind‐wandering, have been associated with improvements in cognitive abilities and memory. The present study explored whether a non‐meditative practice could be successfully applied in a forensic application; specifically, whether mindfulness instructions can be embedded in the face‐composite construction...
PAIN Reports
April 2, 2021
Jennifer S Mascaro, Vinita Singh, Kathryn Wehrmeyer et al.
App-delivered mindfulness improved social functioning and pain catastrophizing among patients with chronic pain. Patient characteristics predicted app engagement, highlighting important considerations for clinical settings.
European Journal of Pain
April 2, 2021
Stefano Poletti, Oussama Abdoun, Jelle Zorn et al.
25 citations
BACKGROUND: The way people respond to pain is based on psychological mechanisms, beliefs and expectations. Mindfulness meditation (MM) has been shown to regulate pain and mental suffering through different mechanisms such as positive reappraisal, attentional and emotional regulation. Yet, subjective experience and meaning of pain in connection with MM are still largely unexplored. METHODS: The...
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
April 2021
D R Gunjawate, R Ravi
The present systematic review aimed to explore the published literature on the application of yoga and meditation for tinnitus. A systematic search was carried out to identify the eligible studies exploring the effect of yoga and meditation on tinnitus in PubMed, Scopus and Cochrane Library electronic databases. Studies on the application of yoga and meditation on tinnitus were identified...
Biological Psychiatry
April 1, 2021
Heather J. Brooks, H. Oughli, Lojine Y. Kamel et al.
Introduction Low-burden and accessible interventions are needed to prevent cognitive decline in individuals at high-risk for decline. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) are two interventions which can be delivered remotely, improving their reach and scalability. This aim of this study is to assess the feasibility, safety and tolerability...
Sententiae
April 1, 2021
Dmytro Sepetyi
The article analyses recent English publications in Cartesian studies that deal with two problems: (1) the problem of the intrinsic coherence of Descartes’s doctrine of the real distinction and interaction between mind and body and (2) the problem of the consistency of this doctrine with the causal principle formulated in the Third Meditation. The principle at issue is alternatively interpreted...
Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute
April 1, 2021
Lee Fergusson, Javier Ortiz Cabrejos, Anna Bonshek
Practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique has been well-documented in the published literature since the 1970s. However, the significance of the practice in South America generally and Perú specifically has been unrecorded, except for the recently published study on parent and teacher perceptions of Aymara children who meditate in Puno, despite its widespread use in schools,...
Mindfulness
April 1, 2021
Imke Hanssen, Marieke Boele, Nicole Van der Horst et al.
Abstract: Objectives: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is an emerging psychological treatment that might be beneficial for people with bipolar disorder (BD). Neurocognitive studies suggest that MBCT may have important effects on mood regulation and broad attentional and frontal-executive control in BD. In this qualitative study, the process of change of MBCT in people with BD is...