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ArticlePerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2018

Reiterated Concerns and Further Challenges for Mindfulness and Meditation Research: A Reply to Davidson and Dahl.

Nicholas T Van Dam, Marieke K van Vugt, David R Vago, Laura Schmalzl, Clifford D Saron, Andrew Olendzki, Ted Meissner, Sara W Lazar, Jolie Gorchov, Kieran C R Fox and 4 more

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Article in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A pilot randomised controlled trial of an online mindfulness-based program for people diagnosed with melanoma.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2019
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  4. The Algorithms of Mindfulness.Science, technology & human values · 2022
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  7. Mindfulness in migraine: A narrative review.Expert review of neurotherapeutics · 2020
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  8. Nondual Awareness and the Whole Person.Global advances in health and medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Nicholas T Van Dam1 Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne.
Marieke K van Vugt3 Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering, University of Groningen.
David R Vago4 Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Laura Schmalzl5 College of Science and Integrative Health, Southern California University of Health Sciences.
Clifford D Saron6 Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis.
Andrew Olendzki7 Integrated Dharma Institute, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Ted Meissner8 Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Sara W Lazar9 Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Jolie Gorchov10 Silver School of Social Work, New York University.
Kieran C R Fox11 Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University.
Brent A Field12 Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University.
Willoughby B Britton13 Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University.
Julie A Brefczynski-Lewis14 Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, West Virginia University.
David E Meyer15 Department of Psychology, University of Michigan.

Funding

West Virginia IDEA-CTRU54GM104942 · NIGMS · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI JUDITH FEINBERG · 2012 to 2026
$81.0M
Dismantling Mindfulness: Contributions of Attention vs. AcceptanceK23AT006328 · NCCIH · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI BRITTON, WILLOUGHBY · 2011 to 2015
$667k
NCCIH NIH HHS K23 AT006328NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM104942
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In response to our article, Davidson and Dahl offer commentary and advice regarding additional topics crucial to a comprehensive prescriptive agenda for future research on mindfulness and meditation. Their commentary raises further challenges and provides an important complement to our article. More consideration of these issues is especially welcome because limited space precluded us from addressing all relevant topics. While we agree with many of Davidson and Dahl's suggestions, the present reply (a) highlights reasons why the concerns we expressed are still especially germane to mindfulness and meditation research (even though those concerns may not be entirely unique) and (b) gives more context to other issues posed by them. We discuss special characteristics of individuals who participate in mindfulness and meditation research and focus on the vulnerability of this field inherent in its relative youthfulness compared to other more mature scientific disciplines. Moreover, our reply highlights the serious consequences of adverse experiences suffered by a significant subset of individuals during mindfulness and other contemplative practices. We also scrutinize common contemporary applications of mindfulness and meditation to illness, and some caveats are introduced regarding mobile technologies for guidance of contemplative practices.

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MeditationMindfulnessHumansResearchadverse eventsmeditationmindfulnessquestionable research practices

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PMID29016240
PMCPMC5817993

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