Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
December 11, 2018
Joseph Wielgosz, Simon B. Goldberg, Tammi R. A. Kral et al.
441 citations
Mindfulness meditation is increasingly incorporated into mental health interventions, and theoretical concepts associated with it have influenced basic research on psychopathology. Here, we review the current understanding of mindfulness meditation through the lens of clinical neuroscience, outlining the core capacities targeted by mindfulness meditation and mapping them onto cognitive and...
Journal of Cognitive Enhancement
December 9, 2018
R. Prakash, S. Fountain-Zaragoza, A. Kramer et al.
This review examines longitudinal studies of changes in components of attention following mindfulness training. A total of 57 retreat studies, non-randomized trials, and randomized controlled trials were identified. Employing the classical taxonomy proposed by Posner and Petersen (Annual Review of Neuroscience, 13(1), 25–42, 1990), outcome measures were broadly categorized based on whether they...
International Journal of Engineering & Technology
December 9, 2018
S. Saravanan, S. Govindarajan
Internet, e-mail and other social networks like Myspace, Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn are the indispensable components in today's world. These social networking makes the human to addict into the digital world. Digital world has become the integral part of our society. Addiction to the digital world slowly develops the negative symptoms in the area of physical, physiological, emotional and...
arXiv Preprint Archive
December 7, 2018
Liane Gabora, Mike Unrau
preprint
As both our external world and inner worlds become more complex, we are faced with more novel challenges, hardships, and duress. Creative thinking is needed to provide fresh perspectives and solve new problems.Because creativity can be conducive to accessing and reliving traumatic memories, emotional scars may be exacerbated by creative practices before these are transformed and released....
Acta bio-medica
December 7, 2018
Alejandro Camacho Alpuente, Francisca Anaya Cintas, Chiara Foà et al.
7 citations
BACKGROUND: Thousands of caregivers around the world take care of impaired people, with negative repercussions on their physical, psychological, social and economic resources. The need to promote caregivers' wellbeing is internationally recognized, thus reducing health inequalities. Mindfulness is a powerful tool, directly related to the reduction of stress, able to increase skills and...
Journal of Cardiology & Current Research
December 6, 2018
Charunayan Kamath
Found in cultures, spiritual traditions, and healing practices throughout the world, meditation is a mind-body practice with different approaches and variations, which began probably more than five thousand years ago. Since then it has developed and practiced to understand consciousness and improve health conditions. All these meditation techniques can be broadly classified under two...
December 5, 2018
L. Oblitas, José Anicama, Raymundo Calderón et al.
Mindfulness or full attention traces its origins to Tibetan Buddhism, and constitutes a form of meditation focused on breathing and a form of body scan which significantly impacts on the strengthening of health and the decreasing of disease symptoms. Qigong is an ancient Chinese system of Taoist origin that promotes health maintenance, healing and increase in vitality, based on respiration,...
December 5, 2018
Enrico Fucci
1 citation
Régulation de l'apprentissage perceptuel par la méditation de pleine conscience : mesures qualitatives et neurophysiologiques De part sa mise en pratique considérable dans des conditions cliniques, l’étude neuroscientifique de la méditation de pleine conscience a vu un développement rapide ces deux dernières décennies. Malgré des preuves de modifications de l’activité et de la structure du...
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
December 4, 2018
Chenyi Chen, Yu-Chun Chen, Kuan-Ling Chen et al.
While meditation has drawn much attention in cognitive neuroscience, the neural mechanisms underlying its emotional processing remains elusive. Sant Mat meditators were recruited, who adopt a loving-kindness mode of meditation along with a vegetarian diet and an alcohol-restricted lifestyle and novices. We assessed their State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and scanned their amygdala reactivity...
Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice
December 2018
Michael Proeve, Rebekah Anton, Maura Kenny
The tendency to experience shame or guilt is associated differentially with anxiety and depression, with shame being associated with greater psychopathology. Correlational studies have shown self-compassion to be related to lower shame and rumination, and mindfulness-based interventions increase self-compassion. Therefore, mindfulness-based interventions may decrease shame. This pilot study...