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Mindful Aging: The Effects of Regular Brief Mindfulness Practice on Electrophysiological Markers of Cognitive and Affective Processing in Older Adults.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- What Works to Improve Wellbeing? A Rapid Systematic Review of 223 Interventions Evaluated with the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scales.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Mindfulness-based programmes for mental health promotion in adults in nonclinical settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.PLoS medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Seniors-An Exploratory Semi-Randomized Examination of Decentering Effects on Cognitive Functions and Psychological Distress.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Mindfulness-Based Lifestyle Intervention for Dementia Risk Reduction: Protocol for the My Healthy Brain Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Four weeks of meditation training improves sustained attention in community-dwelling older adults: a proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in aging · 2024Article
- Effects of acute and long-term mindfulness on neural activity and the conflict resolution component of attention.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Differences in attentional function between experienced mindfulness meditators and non-meditators.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Associations between capacity of cognitive control and sleep quality: a two-wave longitudinal study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Emotion Self-Regulation in Neurotic Students: A Pilot Mindfulness-Based Intervention to Assess Its Effectiveness through Brain Signals and Behavioral Data.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Differences in Emotional Conflict Processing between High and Low Mindfulness Adolescents: An ERP Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Cerebral Blood Flow and Brain Functional Connectivity Changes in Older Adults Participating in a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The search for scientific meaning in mindfulness research: Insights from a scoping review.PloS one · 2022Article
- [Pain treatment in old age: special features and recommendations].Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2021Review
- Behavioral and ERP Correlates of Long-Term Physical and Mental Training on a Demanding Switch Task.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Mindfulness Map: A Practical Classification Framework of Mindfulness Practices, Associated Intentions, and Experiential Understandings.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Future Therapeutic Strategies for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
- Alterations in Functional Connectivity Measured by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Relationship With Heart Rate Variability in Subjects After Performing Orgasmic Meditation: An Exploratory Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- On the Neurobiology of Meditation: Comparison of Three Organizing Strategies to Investigate Brain Patterns during Meditation Practice.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Article
- Neural changes in early visual processing after 6 months of mindfulness training in older adults.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Mindfulness and Attention: Current State-of-Affairs and Future Considerations.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2020Article
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Abstract
There is growing interest in the potential benefits of mindfulness meditation practices in terms of counteracting some of the cognitive effects associated with aging. Pursuing this question, the aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of mindfulness training on executive control and emotion regulation in older adults, by means of studying behavioral and electrophysiological changes. Participants, 55 to 75 years of age, were randomly allocated to an 8-week mindful breath awareness training group or an active control group engaging in brain training exercises. Before and after the training period, participants completed an emotional-counting Stroop task, designed to measure attentional control and emotion regulation processes. Concurrently, their brain activity was measured by means of 64-channel electroencephalography. The results show that engaging in just over 10 min of mindfulness practice five times per week resulted in significant improvements in behavioral (response latency) and electrophysiological (N2 event-related potential) measures related to general task performance. Analyses of the underlying cortical sources (Variable Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography, VARETA) indicate that this N2-related effect is primarily associated with changes in the right angular gyrus and other areas of the dorsal attention network. However, the study did not find the expected specific improvements in executive control and emotion regulation, which may be due to the training instructions or the relative brevity of the intervention. Overall, the results indicate that engaging in mindfulness meditation training improves the maintenance of goal-directed visuospatial attention and may be a useful strategy for counteracting cognitive decline associated with aging.
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