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Research Updates: meditation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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