Frontline Medical News, 2014 Aug 07, NS Miller NEWS Story Source ORLANDO (FRONTLINE MEDICAL NEWS) – They weren’t asked to sit in the lotus pose or study with the monks. Rather, a small group of older veterans were introduced to simple mindfulness meditation, and in a short period, they began doing a better job of […]
Rebecca Erwin Wells MD, MPH Headache. 2014 Jul 18. doi: 10.1111/head.12420. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to assess the safety, feasibility, and effects of the standardized 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course in adults with migraines. BACKGROUND: Stress is a well-known trigger for headaches. Research supports the general benefits of mind/body […]
By FIONA MACRAE FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 11:07 EDT, 4 June 2014 | UPDATED: 13:44 EDT, 4 June 2014 Practice doesn’t make perfect – but meditation might. Researchers say that however hard some people try, they won’t excel at their chosen job, sport or hobby. This is because the key to perfection lies in […]
blogs.scientificamerican.com By Tom Ireland | June 12, 2014 Story Source Scientific American As you read this, wiggle your toes. Feel the way they push against your shoes, and the weight of your feet on the floor. Really think about what your feet feel like right now – their heaviness. If you’ve never heard of mindfulness meditation, […]
Practice Update Research · June 04, 2014 Story Source PubMed Reference TAKE-HOME MESSAGE This randomized, controlled trial of patients with diabetes and depression demonstrated that treatment with mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) or individual cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) resulted in a significant decrease in depressive symptoms compared with a waiting-list control. The effect was similar among […]
PracticeUpdate Editorial Team NEW YORK – Data from a study presented at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual conference held in New York from May 3 to 7, 2014, suggests that mindfulness training may be useful in treating symptoms of anxiety. A total of 89 participants with generalized anxiety disorder were randomly assigned to receive either […]
A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials To cite this article: Orme-JohnsonDavid W. and BarnesVernon A.. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. May 2014, 20(5): 330-341. doi:10.1089/acm.2013.0204. Published in Volume: 20 Issue 5: May 7, 2014 Online Ahead of Print: October 9, 2013 ABSTRACT Objective: This meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on the Transcendental […]
Subjects were taught to suppress their immune responses using physical conditioning May 6, 2014 |By Heidi Ledford and Nature magazine Dutch celebrity daredevil Wim Hof has endured lengthy ice-water baths, hiked to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in shorts and made his mark in Guinness World Records with his ability to withstand cold. Now he […]
Elizabeth Renter Infowars.com January 30, 2014 Full Story Journal Reference If you are a practitioner of meditation, the results of a new study published in Psychoneuroendocrinology will likely come as no surprise. But for some scientists, the revelation that meditating can actually trigger molecular changes is groundbreaking. The researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Institute of […]
Deborah Brauser November 26, 2013 Full Story Meditation in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) may slow progression to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), new research suggests. A small, randomized pilot study of adult patients with MCI showed that those who received mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) therapy for 8 weeks had a greater increase in functional connectivity […]
Nisha Lilia Diu, The Daily Telegraph, National Post Wire Services | January 13, 2014 2:45 PM ET Oh, no. Incense. There’s a juice bar in the lobby and bhangra music playing, too. It feels like I’ve stepped into some kind of space warp. Outside, London. Inside … well, it’s hard to describe. Because, as I […]
Dae-Keun Kim Front. Integr. Neurosci., 13 January 2014 | doi: 10.3389/fnint.2013.00109 Full Text Article The underlying changes in heart coherence that are associated with reported EEG changes in response to meditation have been explored. We measured EEG and heart rate variability (HRV) before and during autogenic meditation. Fourteen subjects participated in the study. Heart coherence […]
JAMA Intern Med 2014 Jan 06;[EPub Ahead of Print], M Goyal, S Singh, EM Sibinga, NF Gould, A Rowland-Seymour, R Sharma, Z Berger, D Sleicher, DD Maron, HM Shihab, PD Ranasinghe, S Linn, S Saha, EB Bass, JA Haythornthwaite Research · January 22, 2014 Full Story Journal Reference TAKE-HOME MESSAGE This review of 47 RCTs enrolling […]
Ritu Bhatnagar, MD, MPH THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE Volume 19, Number 11, 2013, pp. 860–861 ª Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089/acm.2012.0602 Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be a chronic and disabling condition with detrimental effects on an individual’s psychological, medical, social, and occupational functioning.1 PTSD has been conceptualized as a dysregulated […]
December 5, 2013 With evidence growing that training the mind or inducing specific modes of consciousness can have beneficial health effects, scientists have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body. A new study by researchers in Wisconsin, Spain, and France reports the first evidence of specific molecular changes in the body following […]
Deborah Brauser December 24, 2013 An integrative treatment approach using meditation may be more beneficial for treating nicotine addiction than current, standard interventions, preliminary research suggests. The investigators used a computational model of addiction that combined a literature review of human and animal studies with experiments using virtual subjects. Overall results suggested that higher cessation […]
IMNG Medical Media, 2013 Nov 12, S Worcester Full Story: http://www.practiceupdate.com/news/3696 ATLANTA (IMNG) – Mindfulness meditation may improve blood pressure in hypertensive patients with chronic kidney disease, according to findings from a small randomized study. This study involved 15 patients who had stage 3 chronic kidney disease and hypertension. Compared with a control condition involving […]
February 2, 2006 By William J. Cromie , Harvard News Office People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don’t. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans they conducted reveal that experienced meditators boasted […]