Positive Health Online
Your Country
Research Updates: meditation
Below are short extracts from research updates about this subject - select more to read each item.
-
Issue 203
IVES-DELIPERI and COLLEAGUES, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. vives@mweb.co.za used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify the brain regions involved in state mindfulnes1
-
Issue 202
JACOBS and COLLEAGUES, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, Davis, CA 95618, USA. tljacobs@ucdavis.edu investigated the effects of a 3-month meditation retreat on telomerase activity and two major contributor1
-
Issue 200
ANDO and COLLEAGUES, Faculty of Nursing, St. Mary's College, Tsubukuhonmachi 422, Kurume City, Fukuoka, Japan. andou@st-mary.ac.jp examined mindfulness-based meditation therapy.
-
Issue 200
KERR and COLLEAGUES, Harvard Osher Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA. cathy.catherinekerr@gmail.com investigated whether alpha modulation can be enhanced by ‘mind1
-
Issue 197
SCHOORMANS and NYKLICEK, Department of Medical Psychology, Centre of Research on Psychology in Somatic Disease (CoRPS), Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands d.schoormans@amc.uva.nl examined whethe1
-
Issue 191
CHADWICK and COLLEAGUES, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Dept of Psychology, London, UK. paul.chadwick@kcl.ac.uk explored experiences of practising mindfulness and how this related t1
-
Issue 191
XUE and COLLEAGUES, Institution Institute of Neuroinformatics and Laboratory for Body and Mind, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China determined whether 11 h of Integrative Body-Mind Training(IBMT) alters topological properties of the an1
-
Issue 191
STONINGTON, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. scott.stonington@stanfordalumni.org describes a new form of clinical 1
-
Issue 188
YANG and COLLEAGUES, Cardinal Tien College of Healthcare and Management, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. yang@ctcn.edu.tw examineD the effects of meditation on the physical and mental health of junior college students.
-
Issue 186
MULARSKI and COLLEAGUES, The Center for Health Research , Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, OR 97227, USA. Richard.A.Mularski@kpchr.org tested the efficacy of a mindfulness-based breathing1
-
Issue 182
NIDICH and COLLEAGUES, Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention, Maharishi University of Management Research Institute, Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, USA. snidich@mum.edu conducted a randomized controlled trial (1
-
Issue 171
RAFFONE and SRINIVASAN, Department of Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy; Perceptual Dynamics Laboratory, BSI RIKEN, Japan. antonino.raffone@uniroma1 .it attempt to deve1
-
Issue 165
VESTERGAARD-POULSEN and COLLEAGUES, Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. peterv@pet.auh.dk report evidence of structural differences in the lower brainstem of parti1
-
Issue 165
OMAN and COLLEAGUES, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, USA. DougOman@post.Harvard.edu evaluated effects on health professional relational caregiving self-efficacy from an eight-w1
-
Issue 163
FREDRICKSON and COLLEAGUES, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. blf@unc.edu tested the hypothesis that meditation and positive emotions create increas1
-
Issue 151
HORTON-DEUTSCH and co-workers, Indiana University School of Nursing, 1111 Middle Drive, 403L Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA, shortond@iupui.edu, have used a mindfulness-based intervention for bone marrow 1
-
Issue 144
LANE and co-authors, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, USA, have described the benefits of a brief meditation training.
-
Issue 144
SEPHTON and others, University of Louisville and James Graham Brown Cancer Center, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, USA, sephton@louisville.edu, have used mindfulness-based meditation in the treatment of fibromyal1
-
Issue 140
ALLEN and co-authors, ORYGEN Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, nba@unimelb.edu.au, have reviewed (67 references) mindfulness-based psychotherapies.
-
Issue 125
WENK-SORMAZ, Fresh Yoga, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, has hypothesized that meditation reduces habitual responding.