Consciousness and Cognition
February 10, 2018
Freddie Lymeus, Per Lindberg, Terry Hartig
Mindfulness courses conventionally use effortful, focused meditation to train attention. In contrast, natural settings can effortlessly support state mindfulness and restore depleted attention resources, which could facilitate meditation. We performed two studies that compared conventional training with restoration skills training (ReST) that taught low-effort open monitoring meditation in a...
Neuroscience
February 10, 2018
Sergio Elías Hernández, Alfonso Barrós‐loscertales, Yaqiong Xiao et al.
Some meditation techniques teach the practitioner to achieve the state of mental silence. The aim of this study was to investigate brain regions that are associated with their volume and functional connectivity (FC) with the depth of mental silence in long-term practitioners of Sahaja Yoga Meditation. Twenty-three long-term practitioners of this meditation were scanned using Magnetic Resonance...
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
February 5, 2018
Gabriel Lopez, Alejandro Chaoul, Catherine Powers-James et al.
Context: Complementary health approaches such as meditation may help improve cancer patient and caregiver symptoms, yet little research has examined the clinical application of these programs. Objectives: We explored the effects of a meditation group class, offered as part of an integrative medicine clinic at a comprehensive cancer center, on patient and caregiver self-reported symptoms....
CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics
February 5, 2018
Ting Xue, Han Li, Meiti Wang et al.
11 citations
Recently, the increased prevalence of depression largely affects people's quality life and raises social suicide rate. Meanwhile, depression has been reported associated with lipid abnormalities, one of the major risks of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. 1 Hence, the improvement of lipid metabolism is of critical for depressive patients' health care. Meditation, an ancient mind training to...
Scientific Reports
February 5, 2018
U. Kreplin, Miguel Farias, Inti A. Brazil
Many individuals believe that meditation has the capacity to not only alleviate mental-illness but to improve prosociality. This article systematically reviewed and meta-analysed the effects of meditation interventions on prosociality in randomized controlled trials of healthy adults. Five types of social behaviours were identified: compassion, empathy, aggression, connectedness and prejudice....
Annals of Clinical Psychiatry
February 1, 2018
Laura Madson, Beverly Klug, Linda Madson et al.
Background: Although numerous studies have demonstrated that mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) improves clinical and nonclinical outcomes, few studies have followed MBSR participants for >12 months, and few have analyzed post-intervention home practice. Methods: We followed a community sample of 247 self-referred adults for 2 years after completion of an 8-week MBSR program. Dependent...
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
February 2018
Michael Mikolasek, Jonas Berg, Claudia M Witt et al.
This systematic review aims to summarize eHealth studies with mindfulness- and relaxation-based interventions for medical conditions and to determine whether eHealth interventions have positive effects on health. A comprehensive search of five databases was conducted for all available studies from 1990 to 2015. Studies were included if the intervention was mainly technology delivered and...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
February 1, 2018
L. Zou, Albert Yeung, Xin-Feng Quan et al.
Objectives: we used a quantitative method to systematically synthesize the emerging literature and critically evaluate the effects of Baduanjin on depression and anxiety in people with physical or mental illnesses. Additionally, we determined if the number of total Baduanjin training sessions is associated with decreased anxiety and depression levels. Methods: both English and Chinese databases...
Journal of Youth and Adolescence
February 1, 2018
Helena Moreira, Maria João Gouveia, Maria Cristina Canavarro
There is some evidence that mindful parenting, a parenting approach that involves the practice of bringing mindful awareness to the parent-child relationship, is associated with several positive psychosocial outcomes in adolescents. However, only a few studies have investigated the mechanisms that may underlie that association. This study explores whether the link between mindful parenting and...
Aging & Mental Health
February 2018
Caroline M Williams, Frances Meeten, Susan Whiting
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has been successful in reducing depressive symptoms in people with chronic-recurrent depression. However, the research evaluating the efficacy of this approach, and other innovative treatments for mood disorders, has mainly been with people under 65 years. This paper aims to help redress this imbalance by exploring older people's own reflections of...