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Brain Gray Matter Changes Associated with Mindfulness Meditation in Older Adults: An Exploratory Pilot Study using Voxel-based Morphometry.
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- Impact of App-Delivered Mindfulness Meditation on Functional Connectivity, Mental Health, and Sleep Disturbances Among Physician Assistant Students: Randomized, Wait-list Controlled Pilot Study.JMIR formative research · 2021Article
- Rajyoga meditation induces grey matter volume changes in regions that process reward and happiness.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Biobehavioral utility of mindfulness-based art therapy: Neurobiological underpinnings and mental health impacts.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2020Review
- Resting-state neural activity and connectivity associated with subjective happiness.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Trait Mindfulness and Functional Connectivity in Cognitive and Attentional Resting State Networks.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Expansion of hippocampal and amygdala shape in posttraumatic stress and early life stress.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- The Neural Correlate Difference Between Positive and Negative Awe.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Default Mode Network, Meditation, and Age-Associated Brain Changes: What Can We Learn from the Impact of Mental Training on Well-Being as a Psychotherapeutic Approach?Neural plasticity · 2019Review
- Using Wavelet Entropy to Demonstrate how Mindfulness Practice Increases Coordination between Irregular Cerebral and Cardiac Activities.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2017Article
- Promising Links between Meditation and Reduced (Brain) Aging: An Attempt to Bridge Some Gaps between the Alleged Fountain of Youth and the Youth of the Field.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Review
- The Future of Health Promotion in the 21st Century: A Focus on the Working Population.American journal of lifestyle medicineReview
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Abstract
backgroundMindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have previously been associated with structural gray matter changes in normal healthy adults. However, it remains unknown if standardized MBIs can induce similar changes in older adults and those with health complaints as well. The objective of this investigation was to examine the effect of a standardized MBI on the gray matter tissue of older adults with sleep disturbances.
methodsThis exploratory single-group pilot longitudinal study examined local gray matter changes over a six-week MBI period. Participants included six older adult community volunteers (M=66.5 years of age, SD=5.5, range=58-75; 66% female) with sleep disturbances recruited through advertisement in local newspapers/flyers posted at a university medical center and affiliated clinics in Los Angeles, CA. The MBI was delivered as a weekly, two-hour, six-session, group-based course in mindfulness meditation. Gray matter was measured voxel-wise pre- and post-intervention.
resultsA significant gray matter increase was identified within the precuneus, possibly implicating meditation-induced changes of the default mode network. In contrast, observed significant gray matter decreases may have been driven by MBI-related remediation of brain architecture subserving sleep complaints.
conclusionsExploratory findings suggest that mindfulness meditation practice is associated with a detectable alteration of cerebral gray matter in older adults.
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