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The impact of virtual reality meditation on college students’ exam performance

Smart Learning Environments, 2021
Advocates of meditation claim that it can improve various aspects of life, including health, attention, thinking, and learning. The purpose of this empirical, quantitative, between-subject study was twofold.
Regina Kaplan‐Rakowski, Karen R. Johnson, Tomasz Wojdynski   +2 more
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MIND-BODY RESPONSE AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES DURING STRESS AND MEDITATION: CENTRAL ROLE OF HOMEOSTASIS [PDF]

, 2014
Stress profoundly impacts quality of life and may lead to various diseases and conditions. Understanding the underlying physiological and neurological processes that take place during stress and meditation techniques may be critical for effectively ...
Barnes, Vernon A., Crawford, Molly W., Ravinder, Jerath   +2 more
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Mindfulness interventions reduce blood pressure in patients with non-communicable diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

, 2020
Purpose Mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) are an emerging area of empirical study, not only in positive psychology, but also in clinical health care.
Abbott, Agarwal, American Heart Association, Beaglehole, Blom, Campbell, Casellas Grau, Chiesa, Ettehad, Faraone, Gotink, Gregoski, Grossman, Hartmann, Higgins, Hilton, Hughes, Hughes, Intarakamhang, Kabat-Zinn, Kabat-Zinn, Keng, Kumar, McHugh, Momeni, Nejati, Ng, Palta, Parswani, Pearson, Ponte Marquez, Ram, Rosenzweig, Shi, Solano Lopez, Sutipan, Turakitwanakan, Ukpabi, World Health Organization, Wright   +39 more
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Mindfulness Meditation for Chronic Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2016
BackgroundChronic pain patients increasingly seek treatment through mindfulness meditation.PurposeThis study aims to synthesize evidence on efficacy and safety of mindfulness meditation interventions for the treatment of chronic pain in adults.MethodWe ...
L. Hilton, S. Hempel, Brett A. Ewing, Eric A. Apaydin, L. Xenakis, S. Newberry, Benjamin Colaiaco, A. R. Maher, R. Shanman, M. Sorbero, M. Maglione   +10 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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Prevalence and patterns of use of mantra, mindfulness and spiritual meditation among adults in the United States

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2017
Background Despite a growing body of scientific literature exploring the nature of meditation there is limited information on the characteristics of individuals who use it.
Adam Burke, Chun Nok Lam, Barbara Stussman, Hui Yang   +3 more
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Meditation effects within the hippocampal complex revealed by voxel-based morphometry and cytoarchitectonic probabilistic mapping. [PDF]

, 2013
Scientific studies addressing anatomical variations in meditators' brains have emerged rapidly over the last few years, where significant links are most frequently reported with respect to gray matter (GM).
Gaser, Christian, Kurth, Florian, Luders, Eileen, Narr, Katherine L, Toga, Arthur W   +4 more
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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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Meditation increases the depth of information processing [PDF]

, 2012
During meditation, practitioners are required to center their attention on a specific object for extended periods of time. When their thoughts get diverted, they learn to quickly disengage from the distracter.
Leeuwen, Sara van, Melloni, Lucia, Singer, Wolf   +2 more
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Effects of mindfulness meditation on conscious and non-conscious components of the mind [PDF]

, 2017
The aim of the present review is to investigate previous studies concerning the effects of meditation and dispositional mindfulness on conscious and implicit or non-conscious attitudes.
Clarici, Andrea, Crescentini, Cristiano, Fabbro, Anastasia, Fabbro, Franco, Matiz, Alessio   +4 more
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