The Neuroscience of Religious and Spiritual Practices: A Systematic Review of Neurotheological Evidence. [PDF]
Brain BehavSystematic synthesis of 105 neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies demonstrates that religious and spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer, chanting, worship, and mystical experiences, produce practice‐specific neuroplastic changes in brain networks governing attention, self‐referential processing, emotion regulation, connectivity ...
Husain W +10 more
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A Randomized Clinical Trial Reveals Effects of Mindfulness and Slow Breathing on Plasma Amyloid Beta Levels. [PDF]
PsychophysiologyABSTRACT 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
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Performing Meditation: Vipassana and Zen as Technologies of the Self [PDF]
, 2013 The aim of this dissertation is to reflect on technologies of the self, a term coined by Michel Foucault to study western practices of self-formation. Influenced by his work on subjectivity and by Science and Technology Studies (STS), I explore two forms
Antonio Manuel Simoes Lopes Paiva de Carvalho (21826616)
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Religions, 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
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Equality of Access? Chinese Women Practicing Chan and Transnational Meditation in Contemporary China
Religions, 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
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Frontiers 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
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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]
Psychol PsychotherAbstract 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.
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Impact Analysis of Meditation on Physiological Signals
JOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization, 2018 Vipassana meditation is a type of mindfulness meditation technique mostly practices in southwest part of the globe, where relaxing but highly awake and alert mind state is achieved. Vipassana Meditation involvement was carried out for a group of mid-aged
Rahul Ingle, R N Awale
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Mindfulness and other Buddhist-derived interventions in correctional settings: a systematic review [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Throughout the last decade, there has been a growth of interest into the rehabilitative utility of Buddhist-derived interventions (BDIs) for incarcerated populations.
Van Gordon, W +3 more
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Transcending Gender: Female Non-Buddhists’ Experiences of the Vipassanā Meditation Retreat
Religions, 2018 Female non-Buddhists have been writing detailed descriptions of their personal experiences in vipassanā meditation retreats since the 1960s. These memoirists relate to the English-speaking world their experience of the retreat process and self ...
Brooke Schedneck
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