SynthesisScientific reports2023
Mindfulness-based randomized controlled trials led to brain structural changes: an anatomical likelihood meta-analysis.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mind-Body Therapies for Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in People with Cancer: A Systematic Review with Network Meta-Analysis.Current oncology reports · 2026Pooled it
- Investigator Meditation Practice Predicts Efficacy of Child/Adolescent Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Meta-Analysis.Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · 2026Pooled it
- Comparative efficacy of cognitive training modalities in cognitive impairment: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of technology-supported mindfulness-based interventions for maternal depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis with implementation perspectives for resource-limited settings.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
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- Good vibrations: Sternal vibration enhances white matter density and interoceptive awareness.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Mind-body exercise as epigenetic modulators: Rewiring neural circuits for stress resilience and cognitive aging.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2026Review
- Awareness of being: a computational neurophenomenological model of mindfulness, mind-wandering, and meta-attentional control.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- A randomized controlled trial comparing Mindfulness and Heartfulness meditation programmes on stress, anxiety, depressive symptoms and wellbeing among distance-learning postgraduates.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Good vibrations: Sternal vibration enhances white matter density and interoceptive awareness.Research square · 2025Article
- ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide Consortium for Neuroscientific Investigations of Meditation Practices.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025Review
- Neurobiological Changes Induced by Mindfulness and Meditation: A Systematic Review.Biomedicines · 2024Review
Corrections and comments
- Retraction · 2025-07-15Concerns/Issues about Methods · Concerns/Issues about Results and/or Conclusions · Objections by Author(s) ·
- Retracted
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Mindfulness has become increasingly popular and the practice presents in many different forms. Research has been growing extensively with benefits shown across various outcomes. However, there is a lack of consensus over the efficacy of randomized controlled mindfulness interventions, both traditional and mind-body formats. This study aimed to investigate the structural brain changes in mindfulness-based interventions through a meta-analysis. Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, and PsycINFO were searched up to April 2023. 11 studies (n = 581) assessing whole-brain voxel-based grey matter or cortical thickness changes after a mindfulness RCT were included. Anatomical likelihood estimation was used to carry out voxel-based meta-analysis with leave-one-out sensitivity analysis and behavioural analysis as follow-ups. One significant cluster (p < 0.001, Z = 4.76, cluster size = 632 mm
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