Tag: Meditation
Intensive Meditation Intervention Aids Schizophrenia Symptoms
Significant improvements seen at eight months for positive symptoms and hallucinations, delusions
No Cognitive Benefits Seen for Meditation, Nonnative Language Training
No interaction effects observed for Preclinical Alzheimer Cognitive Composite 5, episodic memory, executive function, attention
Meditation Complements Cardiac Rehab for Coronary Artery Disease Patients
Benefits include reduction in stress, anxiety, and depression levels, as well as increases in quality of life
Transcendental Meditation Helps to Alleviate Burnout in Academic Physicians
Benefits seen for total burnout, emotional exhaustion, and depression at four months
Psoriasis Patients Who Meditate May Ease Symptoms, Improve QOL
Review suggests mindfulness and meditation may offer benefit as adjunct therapy for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis
Mindfulness Training Does Not Reduce Migraine Frequency
However, mindfulness-based stress reduction improves various measures, including disability and quality of life
Transcendental Meditation Benefits Veterans With PTSD
TM significantly noninferior to prolonged exposure therapy, better than PTSD health education
CDC: Increases in Yoga, Meditation for Children in 2012-2017
Among adults, increases seen in use of yoga, meditation, chiropractor during same time period
Compassion Training May Up Resilience to Others’ Suffering
Decreases neural responses in amygdala, regions sensitive to valence, empathic distress
Meditation May Help With Cardiovascular Risk Reduction
Given low cost and risk, meditation may be viable adjunct to guideline-directed treatment