Meditation

A new study provides evidence that a school-based mindfulness intervention can reduce perceived stress and modulate activity in a brain region associated with responses to fear and stress. The findings have been published in Behavioral Neuroscience. Clemens C.C. Bauer, the...

A study in Scientific Reports has helped reinforce our understanding of how meditation and mindfulness affect change in the structure and functioning of certain brain areas, and how these changes lead to increased wellness. In the study, fourteen university students...

Only 8 weeks of daily meditation can decrease negative mood and anxiety and improve attention, working memory, and recognition memory in non-experienced meditators. These findings come from a recent study published in Behavioural Brain Research. Meditation is a mental exercise...

A recent study found that practicing mindfulness, even over a short period, reduces feelings of paranoia. The study, which was published in Mindfulness, also showed which particular aspect of mindfulness is the one linked to predicting levels of paranoia. Past...

New research published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology has identified several factors that could help explain the relationship between mindfulness meditation practice and mental well-being. The study suggests that meditation is associated with improved mental health because of its...

New research suggests that the brain displays a similar pattern of chaotic activity during meditation as it does during the psychedelic experience. The findings, published in the journal Neuroscience, indicate that meditation is associated with increased brain entropy. "We are...

College students who complete an eight-week compassion meditation class tend to write more optimistic letters to a convicted murderer, according to new research published in the scientific journal Cognition and Emotion. The findings indicate the some forms of meditation can...

Active meditative techniques appear to be more effective at reducing migraine severity than distraction techniques, according to research published in the journal Complementary Therapies in Medicine. "Meditation practice has been associated with improved pain and decreased migraine headaches frequency in...

Many military veterans who receive care through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) are using mindfulness meditation, according to new research. But nearly all of them appear to be using it outside the VHA. The findings have been published in the...

New scientific research published in the journal Memory & Cognition provides evidence that a brief mindfulness meditation exercise can enhance verbal learning. "A number of studies have shown that mindfulness can improve cognitive abilities, including certain verbal abilities. However, little...

Teaching medical and psychology students to increase their awareness of habitual patterns of thought can have enduring positive effects on mental distress and coping strategies, according to new research published in the journal Mindfulness. In the study, 288 students from...

Experienced meditators and people who are more mindful tend to score higher on several measures of social cognition, such as emotional recognition, according to new research published in Frontiers in Psychology. Despite the growing interested in meditation, "little is known...

In new research published in Psychoneuroendocrinology, scientists have shown that loving-kindness meditation has a positive impact at the cellular level. The study examined how different types of meditation influenced telomere length, an indicator of physiological aging. Telomeres are the end...

Meditation and yoga practice is associated with smaller right amygdala volume, a brain region involved in emotional processing, according to research published in Brain Imaging and Behavior. For their study, the researchers analyzed data that had been collected during the...

New research indicates that psilocybin-assisted mindfulness meditation is associated with changes in functional brain connectivity -- and these changes are related to an altered state of consciousness known as ego dissolution. The findings appear in the journal NeuroImage. A team...