ArticleScientific reports2019
The Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Impulsivity and its Neurobiological Correlates in Healthy Adults.
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- The mediating effect of dispositional mindfulness on the association between UPPS-P impulsivity traits and gaming disorder among Asia-Pacific young adults.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- The mediating effect of attentional impulsivity between mindfulness and problematic smartphone use.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Transcranial focused ultrasound to the posterior cingulate cortex modulates default mode network and subjective experience: an fMRI pilot study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- The Sleepiness-Depression Link in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Preliminary Results on the Mediation of Impulsivity.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Neural substrates of behavioral inhibitory control during the two-choice oddball task: functional neuroimaging evidence.Psychoradiology · 2023Article
- Are sick people really more impulsive?: Investigating inflammation-driven impulsivity.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2022Review
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- Absence of structural brain changes from mindfulness-based stress reduction: Two combined randomized controlled trials.Science advances · 2022Article
- Beyond the veil of duality-topographic reorganization model of meditation.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2022Review
- Resting State Functional Connectivity Associated With Sahaja Yoga Meditation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Mindfulness and Shinrin-Yoku: Potential for Physiological and Psychological Interventions during Uncertain Times.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Heartfulness Meditation Alters Electroencephalogram Oscillations: An Electroencephalogram Study.International journal of yogaArticle
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Abstract
Interest has grown in using mindfulness meditation to treat conditions featuring excessive impulsivity. However, while prior studies find that mindfulness practice can improve attention, it remains unclear whether it improves other cognitive faculties whose deficiency can contribute to impulsivity. Here, an eight-week mindfulness intervention did not reduce impulsivity on the go/no-go task or Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11), nor produce changes in neural correlates of impulsivity (i.e. frontostriatal gray matter, functional connectivity, and dopamine levels) compared to active or wait-list control groups. Separately, long-term meditators (LTMs) did not perform differently than meditation-naïve participants (MNPs) on the go/no-go task. However, LTMs self-reported lower attentional impulsivity, but higher motor and non-planning impulsivity on the BIS-11 than MNPs. LTMs had less striatal gray matter, greater cortico-striatal-thalamic functional connectivity, and lower spontaneous eye-blink rate (a physiological dopamine indicator) than MNPs. LTM total lifetime practice hours (TLPH) did not significantly relate to impulsivity or neurobiological metrics. Findings suggest that neither short- nor long-term mindfulness practice may be effective for redressing impulsive behavior derived from inhibitory motor control or planning capacity deficits in healthy adults. Given the absence of TLPH relationships to impulsivity or neurobiological metrics, differences between LTMs and MNPs may be attributable to pre-existing differences.
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