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ArticlePsychosomatic medicine

Mindfulness and More: Toward a Science of Human Flourishing.

Richard J Davidson

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Article in Psychosomatic medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. A rationale and framework for sharing mindfulness in trauma-dense communities in South Africa.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2025
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  4. Introduction: Embodying a Liberated Mind at Death.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Richard J DavidsonFrom the Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.

Funding

Wisconsin Center for the Neuroscience and Psychophysiology of MeditationP01AT004952 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI DAVIDSON, RICHARD J · 2008 to 2018
$14.7M
The plasticity of well-being: A research network to define, measure and promote human flourishingU24AT011289 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI DAVIDSON, RICHARD J · 2021 to 2024
$2.4M
NCCIH NIH HHS P01 AT004952NCCIH NIH HHS U24 AT011289
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

abstractThis commentary for this Special Issue on mindfulness highlights the progress and maturity of this growing field of scientific investigation and points the way toward important questions that require further study. Important methodological and implementation issues including the nature of proper comparison groups, the extension of mindfulness-based interventions to underserved populations, the assessment of baseline characteristics that predict beneficial outcomes, and how mindfulness might be combined with other health-promoting activities such as physical exercise are considered. New questions for future research were also showcased, including best practices for mobile interventions, the development and assessment of microinterventions, and the need for a more expansive framework to cultivate human flourishing. The learning of well-being is conceptualized as an urgent public health need that will require new approaches for global scaling.

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MindfulnessExerciseHumansLearningResearch Design

Identifiers

PMID34213863
PMCPMC8547411

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