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A Randomized Clinical Trial Reveals Effects of Mindfulness and Slow Breathing on Plasma Amyloid Beta Levels. [PDF]

open access: yesPsychophysiology
ABSTRACT Prior research suggests that meditation may slow brain aging and reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, we lack research systematically examining what aspect(s) of meditation may drive such benefits. In particular, it is unknown how breathing patterns during meditation might influence health outcomes associated with AD.
Nashiro K   +12 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Enhanced dehydroepiandrosterone levels are positively correlated with N3 sleep stage in long-term mindfulness meditation practitioners [PDF]

open access: yesSleep Science, 2022
Objectives: Meditation practices positively influence the neural, hormonal and autonomic systems. We have demonstrated that long-term practice of mindfulness meditation increases N3 and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stages and bring efficient autonomic ...
Ravindra P. Nagendra   +2 more
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The role of silence in the production of social order in meditation (on the example of vipassana)

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2023
The article considers silence as the most important component of vipassana (meditation technique from early Buddhism) as it is taught in the tradition of S.N. Goenka.
A. K. Spirkina
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Personal and relational experiences on meditation journeys following developmental trauma: An IPA study of adults who experienced an inconsistent evolved developmental niche. [PDF]

open access: yesPsychol Psychother
Abstract Objectives In recent decades, research has increasingly highlighted the devastating effects of childhood trauma and relational processes that violate human development. However, the unique dynamics of such early‐life deprivations in adults who practice meditation, a context where the complexity of such wounding (and healing) may become ...
Frastali AM, Rawal A.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Teaching Transnational Buddhist Meditation with Vipassanā (Neiguan 內觀) and Mindfulness (Zhengnian 正念) for Healing Depression in Contemporary China

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This paper examines how the teaching of embodied practices of transnational Buddhist meditation has been designated for healing depression explicitly in contemporary Chinese Buddhist communities with the influences of Buddhist modernism in Southeast Asia
Ngar-sze Lau
doaj   +1 more source

Equality of Access? Chinese Women Practicing Chan and Transnational Meditation in Contemporary China

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This paper examines how the Buddhist revival, the Chan revival, and recent popularity of transnational meditation practices have facilitated Chinese women practicing Buddhist meditation in contemporary China.
Ngar-Sze Lau
doaj   +1 more source

Decoding the Self: Single-Trial Prediction of Self-Boundary Meditation States From Magnetoencephalography Recordings. [PDF]

open access: yesHum Brain Mapp
Meditation‐induced self‐boundary dissolution can be predicted from magnetoencephalography recordings using Lempel‐Ziv complexity and oscillatory power as neural markers. We demonstrate significantly above‐chance classification of altered self‐experience on a single‐trial basis and show that it is mediated by complex activation patterns across brain ...
Röhr H   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Contrasting Electroencephalography-Derived Entropy and Neural Oscillations With Highly Skilled Meditators

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021
Meditation is an umbrella term for a number of mental training practices designed to improve the monitoring and regulation of attention and emotion. Some forms of meditation are now being used for clinical intervention.
Jacob H. Young   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decoding Depth of Meditation: Electroencephalography Insights From Expert Vipassana Practitioners [PDF]

open access: yesBiological Psychiatry Global Open Science
Tracy Brandmeyer   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

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