ArticleScience advances2022
Absence of structural brain changes from mindfulness-based stress reduction: Two combined randomized controlled trials.
Article in Science advances, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07544355 (A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training Program Model for Empowering Nursing Students), which is not on this map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training Program Model for Empowering Nursing Students
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Mindfulness-based randomized controlled trials led to brain structural changes: an anatomical likelihood meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
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- Impact of meditation on brain age derived from multimodal neuroimaging in experts and older adults from a randomized trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Slower respiration rate is associated with higher self-reported well-being after wellness training.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Effects of a prenatal mindfulness program on longitudinal changes in stress, anxiety, depression, and mother-infant bonding of women with a tendency to perinatal mood and anxiety disorder: a randomized controlled trial.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of a 14-day mindfulness ecological momentary intervention (MEMI) for generalized anxiety disorder.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2023Trial
- Mindfulness Practice and Increases in Gray Matter Density, Gray Matter Volume, and Cortical Thickness: A Scoping Review.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- A systematic review on mindfulness-based immersive interventions in depressive disorders.Npj mental health research · 2026Review
- Leveraging AI-Driven Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Early Detection and Social Function Prediction in Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Striatal functional connectivity associated with Sahaja Yoga meditation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide Consortium for Neuroscientific Investigations of Meditation Practices.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025Review
- Mindfulness, cognition, and long-term meditators: Toward a science of advanced meditation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- The Neurophysiology of Interoceptive Disruptions in Trauma-Exposed Populations.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Exploring the Embodied Mind: Functional Connectome Fingerprinting of Meditation Expertise.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Article
- Temporal dynamics and long-term effects of a mindfulness-based intervention for young adults with adverse childhood experiences.Mindfulness · 2024Article
- A single-arm, open-label pilot study of neuroimaging, behavioral, and peripheral inflammatory correlates of mindfulness-based stress reduction in multiple sclerosis.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
- Re-examining the Mysterious Role of the Cerebellum in Pain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Beneficial effects of mindfulness-based intervention on hippocampal volumes and episodic memory for childhood adversity survivors.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2024Article
- Childhood adversity severity modulates the associations between adaptive psychological changes and amygdala volumetric changes in response to behavioral interventions.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2024Article
- Functional and microstructural plasticity following social and interoceptive mental training.eLife · 2023Article
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Abstract
Studies purporting to show changes in brain structure following the popular, 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course are widely referenced despite major methodological limitations. Here, we present findings from a large, combined dataset of two, three-arm randomized controlled trials with active and waitlist (WL) control groups. Meditation-naïve participants (
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