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ReviewCurrent behavioral neuroscience reports2016

The Neural Mechanisms of Meditative Practices: Novel Approaches for Healthy Aging.

Bianca P Acevedo, Sarah Pospos, Helen Lavretsky

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Review in Current behavioral neuroscience reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03589755 (The Impact of Mindfulness Meditation in Veterans With Epilepsy), which is not on this map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
14.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03589755 nawithdrawnnot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

The Impact of Mindfulness Meditation in Veterans With Epilepsy: Can Seizures and Psychiatric Comorbidities Improve

TypeinterventionalSponsorMiami VA Healthcare SystemRan2019 to 2020Enrolled0ConditionsEpilepsyArmsMindfulness meditation
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Bianca P AcevedoSemel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA ; Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA.
Sarah PosposSemel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA.
Helen LavretskySemel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA.
Center for Neurosciences · USUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · US

Funding

Brain aging and treatment response in geriatric depressionR01MH097892 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI LAVRETSKY, HELEN · 2013 to 2017
$3.5M
Mentoring and Research in Translational Science of Integrative MedicineK24AT009198 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Helen Lavretsky · 2016 to 2026
$1.4M
NCCIH NIH HHS K24 AT009198NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH097892
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesMeditation has been shown to have physical, cognitive, and psychological health benefits that can be used to promote healthy aging. However, the common and specific mechanisms of response remain elusive due to the diverse nature of mind-body practices.

methodsIn this review, we aim to compare the neural circuits implicated in focused-attention meditative practices that focus on present-moment awareness to those involved in active-type meditative practices (e.g., yoga) that combine movement, including chanting, with breath practices and meditation. RECENT

findingsRecent meta-analyses and individual studies demonstrated common brain effects for attention-based meditative practices and active-based meditations in areas involved in reward processing and learning, attention and memory, awareness and sensory integration, and self-referential processing and emotional control, while deactivation was seen in the amygdala, an area implicated in emotion processing. Unique effects for SUMMARY: This review suggests that mind-body practices can target different brain systems that are involved in the regulation of attention, emotional control, mood, and executive cognition that can be used to treat or prevent mood and cognitive disorders of aging, such as depression and caregiver stress, or serve as "brain fitness" exercise. Benefits may include improving brain functional connectivity in brain systems that generally degenerate with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other aging-related diseases.

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AgingBrainMeditationMindfulnessQi GongTai ChiYoga

Identifiers

PMID27909646
PMCPMC5110576
OpenAlexW2535628968

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