Trial reportHuman brain mapping2020
Mindfulness training preserves sustained attention and resting state anticorrelation between default-mode network and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: A randomized controlled trial.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Exploring the Effects of Meditation Techniques Used by Mindfulness-Based Programs on the Cognitive, Social-Emotional, and Academic Skills of Children: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- The effects of intensive mindfulness interventions on athletes' psychological states and cognitive performance: an fNIRS study.BMC psychology · 2026Trial
- The impact of an app-delivered mindfulness-based intervention on resting-state functional connectivity in pediatric concussion: a pilot study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Trial
- Real-time fMRI neurofeedback modulates auditory cortex activity and connectivity in schizophrenia patients with auditory hallucinations: A controlled study.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2025Trial
- Mindfulness meditation increases default mode, salience, and central executive network connectivity.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Mindfulness training preserves sustained attention and resting state anticorrelation between default-mode network and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: A randomized controlled trial.Human brain mapping · 2020Trial
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- Mind-Body Interventions as Modulators of Neural Connectivity and Cognition in Individuals at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review.Annals of neurosciences · 2026Review
- Smartphone App-Delivered Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Concussion in Adolescents (MBI-4-mTBI): Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies · 2026Article
- Feasibility of Internet-Based Mind-Body Training for Adults With Subjective Cognitive Decline: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Treatment of Anxiety Disorders During the Postpartum Period: A 4-Week Proof-of-Concept Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Real-time neurofeedback, its neurotransmitter underpinnings, and therapeutic effects: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial in individuals at clinical high risk.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Examining the Impact of Brief Mindfulness Practice on Sustained Attention, Attentional Inhibition and Convergent Thinking.Journal of Intelligence · 2025Article
- "Optimizing Wellness and Neurorehabilitation with Mindfulness (OWNMindfulness)": feasibility of a novel mindfulness-based rehabilitation intervention for Persisting Symptoms after Concussion.Disability and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Default Mode Network Functional Connectivity As a Transdiagnostic Biomarker of Cognitive Function.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025Review
- Brief mindfulness coaching enhances selective attention in medical scientists: A pilot study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Measuring mindfulness in children: breath counting is unrelated to self-reported mindfulness but improves after mindfulness practice in 9-13 year-olds.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Dynamic brain states underlying advanced concentrative absorption meditation: A 7-T fMRI-intensive case study.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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- Advances in the fMRI analysis of the default mode network: a review.Brain structure & function · 2024Review
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Abstract
Mindfulness training can enhance cognitive control, but the neural mechanisms underlying such enhancement in children are unknown. Here, we conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with sixth graders (mean age 11.76 years) to examine the impact of 8 weeks of school-based mindfulness training, relative to coding training as an active control, on sustained attention and associated resting-state functional brain connectivity. At baseline, better performance on a sustained-attention task correlated with greater anticorrelation between the default mode network (DMN) and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), a key node of the central executive network. Following the interventions, children in the mindfulness group preserved their sustained-attention performance (i.e., fewer lapses of attention) and preserved DMN-DLPFC anticorrelation compared to children in the active control group, who exhibited declines in both sustained attention and DMN-DLPFC anticorrelation. Further, change in sustained-attention performance correlated with change in DMN-DLPFC anticorrelation only within the mindfulness group. These findings provide the first causal link between mindfulness training and both sustained attention and associated neural plasticity. Administered as a part of sixth graders' school schedule, this RCT supports the beneficial effects of school-based mindfulness training on cognitive control.
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