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A cluster randomized controlled trial examining the effects of a four-week mindfulness-based practice on primary school students’ interpersonal mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and attentional focus

Frontiers in Psychology
BackgroundAlthough mindfulness benefits are well-established across diverse populations, its impact on primary school children’s interpersonal mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and attentional focus remains underexplored.
Li-Jen Lin, Li-Jen Lin, Yu-Hsun Lin, Yu-Hsun Lin, Su-Ping Yu, Su-Ping Yu, Thu-Hua Liu, Thu-Hua Liu, Yi-Lang Chen, Yi-Lang Chen   +9 more
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Unpleasant meditation-related experiences in regular meditators: Prevalence, predictors, and conceptual considerations.

PLoS ONE, 2019
So far, the large and expanding body of research on meditation has mostly focussed on the putative benefits of meditation on health and well-being. However, a growing number of reports indicate that psychologically unpleasant experiences can occur in the
Marco Schlosser, Terje Sparby, Sebastjan Vörös, Rebecca Jones, Natalie L Marchant   +4 more
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Future directions in meditation research: Recommendations for expanding the field of contemplative science. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
The science of meditation has grown tremendously in the last two decades. Most studies have focused on evaluating the clinical effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions, neural and other physiological correlates of meditation, and individual ...
Cassandra Vieten, Helané Wahbeh, B Rael Cahn, Katherine MacLean, Mica Estrada, Paul Mills, Michael Murphy, Shauna Shapiro, Dean Radin, Zoran Josipovic, David E Presti, Michael Sapiro, Jan Chozen Bays, Peter Russell, David Vago, Fred Travis, Roger Walsh, Arnaud Delorme   +17 more
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The 'Meditational' Genre of Descartes 'Meditations

Forum Philosophicum, 1970
In this paper, I reflect on Descartes' employment of the meditational genre in the weaving of the text of the Meditations. In the first part, the possible influences behind Descartes' choice of the meditational genre are examined. The second part of the paper attempts to spell out the significance of Descartes' use of the meditational form.
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The impact of meditation as a cognitive-behavioral practice for alternative high school students [PDF]

, 2008
textThe number of students dropping out of school is reaching crisis proportions. Compensatory alternative high schools are successful intervention programs for dropout prevention and school social workers offer services in these schools to support ...
Wisner, Betsy L., 1955-
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Defining Meditation: Foundations for an Activity-Based Phenomenological Classification System

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Classifying different meditation techniques is essential for the progress of meditation research, as this will enable discerning which effects are associated with which techniques, in addition to supporting the development of increasingly effective and ...
Terje Sparby, Terje Sparby, Terje Sparby, Matthew D. Sacchet   +3 more
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Attention and meditative development: A review and synthesis of long-term meditators and outlook for the study of advanced meditation

NeuroImage
Attention regulation is a core mechanism of mindfulness meditation and has been proposed to underlie many of its health-related benefits. Here, we review and synthesize behavioral findings on attentional outcomes in long-term meditators, integrating ...
Sebastian Ehmann, Idil Sezer, Arielle S. Keller, Isaac N. Treves, Matthew D. Sacchet   +4 more
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Individualized functional brain mapping machine learning prediction of symptom-change resulting from selective kappa-opioid antagonism in an anhedonic sample from a Fast-Fail trial

Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Background: Anhedonia remains a difficult-to-treat symptom and has been associated with poor clinical course transdiagnostically. Here, we applied machine learning models to individualized neural patches derived from fMRI data during the Monetary ...
Matthew D. Sacchet, Joseph L. Valenti, Poorvi Keshava, Shane W. Walsh, Moria J. Smoski, Andrew D. Krystal, Diego A. Pizzagalli   +6 more
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The Association Between a History of Prior Experience with Meditation and the Prevalence of Chronic Health Conditions: Evidence from the 2012 NHIS. [PDF]

, 2017
The use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) has grown in popularity since the 1990’s. One possible explanation is the Western medicine’s inability to adequately treat pain and chronic diseases.
Smith, Morgan
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How static and kinetic meditation, with or without guidance, affect autonomic nervous system activity in novice meditators

Frontiers in Psychology
ObjectiveThis study explored the autonomic nervous system responses and perceived experiences of novice meditators during kinetic and static meditation.MethodsThirty-five participants completed both meditation types in randomized order.
Jinwoo Han, Jinwoo Han, Myungji Lee, Teri Kim   +3 more
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