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Research Updates: meditation
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Issue 123
WALTON and colleagues, Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention, Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, kwalton@mum.edu, have written about stress, cardiovascular disease and transcendental meditation. Abstra1
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Issue 118
TAKAHASHI and colleagues, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Matsuoka-cho, Fukui 910-1193, Japan, have studied changes in the nervous system during meditation.
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Issue 116
WENK-SORMAZ, Fresh Yoga, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, reports that meditation can reduce habitual responding.
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Issue 108
OTT, Pain and Palliative Care Program and Pediatric Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA02115, USA, maryjane_ott@dfci.harvard.edu, has reviewed (21 references) mindfulness meditation. Abstract:1
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Issue 102
CARLSON and co-workers, Department of Psychological Resources, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, lcarlson@ucalgary.ca, have evaluated the efficacy of mindfulness-based meditation for stress reduction in prostat1
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Issue 102
DAVIDSON and others, Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA, rjdavids@facstaff.wisc.edu, have measured alterations in brain and immune funct1
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Issue 102
FALKENSTROEM, Young Adults Counseling Center, Repslagaregatan 5a, S-611 30 Nykoeping, Sweden, frederik.falkenstrom@nln.dll.se, has written a Buddhist contribution to the psychoanalytic psychology of self. Abstract: The article attempts to integrate 1
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Issue 99
LO and co-workers, Department of Electrical and Control Engineering National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, pclo@faculty.nctu.edu.tw, have found that EEG alpha blocking is correlated with seeing an inner light1
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Issue 99
NEWBERG and colleagues, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA, newberg@oasis.rad.upenn.edu, have studied the blood flow in the brain during meditative prayer.
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Issue 97
HOLROYD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, holroyd@ucla.edu, writes about the science of meditation and the state of hypnosis. Abstract: Mindfulness, an aspect of Buddhist meditation, facilitates the i1
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Issue 97
OTANI, University of Maryland Counselling Center, USA, aotani@wam.umd.edu, describes a new synthesis between Eastern meditation techniques and hypnosis. Abstract: The major ancient Buddhist meditation techniqu1