Neuroimage
July 1, 2016
Eileen Luders, Nicolas Cherbuin, Christian Gaser
Normal aging is known to be accompanied by loss of brain substance. The present study was designed to examine whether the practice of meditation is associated with a reduced brain age. Specific focus was directed at age fifty and beyond, as mid-life is a time when aging processes are known to become more prominent. We applied a recently developed machine learning algorithm trained to identify...
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
July 2016
Ana Costa, Thorsten Barnhofer
Disengaging from maladaptive thinking is an important imperative in the treatment of depression. Mindfulness training is aimed at helping patients acquire relevant skills for this purpose. It remains unclear, however, whether this practice is helpful when patients are acutely depressed. In order to investigate effects of mindfulness on symptoms and self-regulatory capacities in this group, the...
Nursing Science Quarterly
July 2016
Sun Ju Chang, Eun Young Kwak, Bong-Jin Hahm et al.
This study evaluated the effects of meditation programs on nurses' power and quality of life. In this study, Barrett's power theory derived from Rogers' unitary human being science was used as a theoretical framework. A randomized controlled design with 50 recruited and randomly allocated participants was used. The results demonstrated that the eight-week meditation program significantly...
Biological Psychiatry
July 1, 2016
J David Creswell, Adrienne A. Taren, Emily K. Lindsay et al.
Mindfulness meditation training interventions have been shown to improve markers of health, but the underlying neurobiological mechanisms are not known. Building on initial cross-sectional research showing that mindfulness meditation may increase default mode network (DMN) resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) with regions important in top-down executive control (dorsolateral prefrontal...
Psychoneuroendocrinology
July 1, 2016
Joanna J Arch, Lauren N Landy, Kirk Warren Brown
Arch et al. (2014) demonstrated that brief self-compassion meditation training (SCT) dampened sympathetic (salivary alpha-amylase) and subjective anxiety responses to the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), relative to attention and no-instruction control conditions. The present study examined baseline predictors and moderators of these SCT intervention effects. Baseline characteristics included...
Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics
July 1, 2016
Eric L Garland, Matthew O. Howard, Sarah E. Priddy et al.
12 citations
Abstract: Dual-process models from neuroscience suggest that addiction is driven by dysregulated interactions between bottom-up neural processes underpinning reward learning and top-down neural functions subserving executive function. Over time, drug use causes atrophy in prefrontally mediated cognitive control networks and hijacks striatal circuits devoted to processing natural rewards in...
Indian Journal of Psychiatry
July 1, 2016
Sravanti L. Sanivarapu
4 citations
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불교학보
June 30, 2016
Byeong-Soo Kim, Seong‐Sik Park, Ji-Hwan Kim
본 연구는 체질에 맞는 명상프로그램을 구안하기 위해서 2014년 3월 20일~2014년 6월 18일 OO대학 OO학과 재학생 83명을 대상으로 명상프로그램 α-버전의 심리적ㆍ신체적 만족도에 영향을 미치는 명상 방법적 요인을 탐색하였다. 연구 결과를 바탕으로 명상프로그램 β-버전을 구안 할 경우 제안할 점은 다음과 같다.BR 먼저, 심리적 변화 측면을 목적으로 한다면, 소음인의 경우 명상방법 관련 요인이 명상프로그램 α-버전의 심리적 반응에 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났기 때문에, 명상프로그램 β-버전을 구안 시 기존 명상프로그램 α-버전이 반영하지 못한 소음인의 특성을 파악하여 새롭게 구성해야 할 것이다. 소양인의 경우 호흡명상의 효과를 극대화 하는 차원에서 동작명상과 이완명상을 추가한 호흡명상...
June 30, 2016
A. Kieszkowska-Grudny
Pain, which accompanies almost every third Pole, is an ever greater medical, psychological and social challenge. Relieving pain, and chronic one in particular, is now becoming one of the most important tasks for contemporary health care systems. It involves searching for efficacious therapeutic methods, not only with respect to pharmacotherapy, but also psychotherapy, physiotherapy, surgery,...
Kultura i Edukacja
June 30, 2016
Anita Pacholik-Żuromska
6 citations
The aim of this paper is a short overview of the book of Evan Thompson Wak ing, Dreaming, Being.Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy, with some polemic remarks.Thompson presents an interest ing approach to the problem of cognition, knowledge and selfknowledge -the problems considered in philosophy, psychology, neurosciences, which -if they interact -create an...