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Research Updates: meditation
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Issue 265
RAHL and COLLEAGUES, 1. Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University evaluated competing accounts for how mindfulness training reduces mind wandering.
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Issue 263
MEIZE-GROCHOWSKI and COLLEAGUES, 1. University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center, College of Nursing, USA. Electronic address: Rmeize@salud.unm.edu ; 2. University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center, 1
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Issue 261
LA COUR and PETERSEN, 1. Center for Functional Diseases, Mental Health Center, Copenhagen Multidisciplinary Pain Center, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark conducted a randomized controlled clinical trial to study the effects of mindfulness meditat1
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Issue 257
CHAN AND LEHTO, 1. College of Nursing, Michigan State University, 1355 Bogue Street, C242, East Lansing, MI 48824. roxane.chan@hc.msu.edu; 2. College of Nursing, Michigan State University, 1355 Bogue Stree1
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Issue 256
VAN GORDON and COLLEAGUES, 1. Psychology Department, Nottingham Trent University, UK; 2. Psychology Division, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK; 3. Miguel Servet University Hospital, University of Zaragoza, Spain conducted the first randomized controlled tr1
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Issue 256
CHAN, 1. The Buddhist Institute of Enlightenment (Hk) Ltd., 270 Sha Tsui Road 2/F, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. drchankapo@gmail.com explored using a randomized control study the effects of prenatal meditation on infant behaviours.1
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Issue 252
FENNELL and COLLEAGUES, 1. Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States; 2. Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States. Electronic address: 1
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Issue 250
BURGER and LOCKHART Hawaii Pacific University, and Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA conducted a randomized-control trial with nursing students to explore meditation as an educational strategy for enhancing nursing students' attentio1
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Issue 249
CHAN and COLLEAGUES, 1. College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA; 2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 3. School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA conducted a rando1
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Issue 234
BIRX, School of Nursing, Radford University, VA, USA. ebirx@radford.edu analyzed and compared the concepts of centring and opening meditation processes in health care.
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Issue 233
REINER and COLLEAGUES, (1)Department of Psychology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel conduct a literature review to investigate the specific effect of Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) upon pain intensity.
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Issue 214
JACOBS and COLLEAGUES, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis investigate the link between mindfulness meditation and stress reduction.
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Issue 211
CHIESA and COLLEAGUES, Institute of Psychiatry, University of Bologna, Viale Carlo Pepoli 5, Bologna, Italy. albertopnl@yahoo.it reviewed current evidence regarding the effects of Mindfulne1
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Issue 210
CUTSHALL and COLLEAGUES, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA studied whether a self-directed, computer-guided meditation training program is useful for stress reduction in hospital nurses.
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Issue 210
MOHAN and COLLEAGUES, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India studied the effects of meditation on stress-induced changes in cognitive
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Issue 209
GROSS and COLLEAGUES, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. gross002@umn.edu set out to investigate the potential of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) as a treatment for chr1
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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
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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
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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.
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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