OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
October 14, 2018
Ethan G. Lester, Amy R. Murrell, Dickson E. Dickson
8 citations
Background: Mindfulness meditation (MM) is an increasing area of interest for health professionals and the general public alike. Beneficial outcomes are associated with this practice; however, definitions of mindfulness and meditation are varied, and anecdotal accounts suggest that people hold conceptions about the constructs. Furthermore, mindfulness has been incorporated into therapeutic...
bioRxiv
October 13, 2018
Neil W. Bailey, Kavya Raj, Gabrielle Freedman et al.
preprint
Mindfulness meditation may improve attention and self-regulation. One component of attention and self-regulation that may allow these improvements is performance monitoring. Neural correlates of performance monitoring can be objectively measured with electroencephalogram (EEG) via the error related negativity (ERN) and error positivity (Pe). Previous research assessing the ERN and Pe in...
Frontiers in Psychology
October 12, 2018
Michail Mantzios
4 citations
EDITORIAL article Front. Psychol., 12 October 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01986
Current Opinion in Psychology
October 11, 2018
Amanda J Shallcross, Pallavi Visvanathan, Sarah H Sperber et al.
The high incidence of poor sleep and associated negative health consequences substantiates the need for effective behavioral sleep interventions. We offer an integrative model of sleep disturbance whereby key risk factors for compromised sleep quality and quantity are targeted through mindfulness practice-namely, experiential awareness, attentional control, and acceptance. Theoretical...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
October 11, 2018
Jesús de la Fuente, Israel Mañas Mañas, Clemente Franco et al.
42 citations
The purpose of this research was to verify, in a group of psychology students, whether mindfulness training in conjunction with the individual's level of self-regulation behavior would produce a change in the use of coping strategies. A total of 38 students participated in this study, with one experimental group and one control group, in a randomized controlled trial. Observation of the...
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
October 11, 2018
Kim E Innes, Terry Kit Selfe, K. Brundage et al.
Background: Telomere length (TL), telomerase activity (TA), and plasma amyloid-β (Aβ) levels have emerged as possible predictors of cognitive decline and dementia. Objective: To assess the: 1) effects of two 12-week relaxation programs on TL, TA, and Aβ levels in adults with subjective cognitive decline; and 2) relationship of biomarker changes to those in cognitive function, psychosocial...
Journal of Happiness Studies
October 9, 2018
Richard E. Whitehead, G. Bates, Brad Elphinstone et al.
The Buddhist construct of nonattachment is a related, yet distinct construct to mindfulness. Whereas mindfulness refers to an individual’s open, present-centred awareness of what is happening in their field of consciousness, nonattachment denotes an absence of attempts to control what is happening in their field of consciousness. The aim of the present research was to determine whether...
Current Opinion in Psychology
October 9, 2018
Martine Batchelor
This essay explores the relevance of the practice of mindfulness of feeling tones as a useful framework for research. First it presents three common types of feeling tones: pleasant/unpleasant and neutral. Then it looks at the matrix in which they could be usefully considered for research, that is the nāma factors (contact, feeling tone, perception, attention and intention). It explains that...
Current Opinion in Psychology
October 9, 2018
Rebecca S. Crane, Willem Kuyken
The Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Teaching Assessment Criteria (MBI:TAC) is a tool for supporting good practice in mindfulness-based teaching, training supervision and research contexts. It has been taken up in practice in teacher training organizations worldwide. The MBI:TAC sits within the wider consideration within research contexts of building methodological rigor by developing robust...
Current Opinion in Psychology
October 9, 2018
Bhikkhu Anālayo
Research on Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBI) is hampered by semantic ambiguity surrounding the term 'mindfulness'. Understanding the core quality involved in such research could be improved by adding historical depth to definitions of mindfulness, based on more detailed information on mindfulness from text-historical and doctrinal sources in the Buddhist traditions. Particular applications...