ArticleMindfulness2025
Multidimensional Analysis of Twin Sets During an Intensive Week-Long Meditation Retreat: A Pilot Study.
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- Bridging brain and body: a 3R framework for real-time self-regulation strategies in sport.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Neural and molecular changes during a mind-body reconceptualization, meditation, and open label placebo healing intervention.Communications biology · 2025Observational
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Objectives: Meditation has long been known to promote health. We utilized a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the impact of mind-body interventions on the body in a twin cohort during a week-long meditation retreat. Method: This study was designed to address individual changes controlling for intersubject trait variation and explore the role of genetic background on multi-omic factors during meditation. Transcriptomic analysis was carried out from whole blood samples, while metabolomic and biochemical studies were carried out in blood plasma. Quantitative electroencephalography studies, coupled with biometric analysis and molecular studies at multiple time points, were carried out in twins meditating together and in twins separated and simultaneously either meditating or listening to a documentary. Results: Changes in gene expression, metabolites, and cytokines in blood plasma associated with specific meditative states showed patterns of change relative to the time point being assessed. Twin sets were similar in multiple domains before the start of the retreat, showed considerable divergence at the mid-point, and looked more similar by the end of the retreat. Twin pairs showed significant spectral power correlations in separate rooms and when only one twin meditated. These similarities were not observed in mismatched twin pairs. Heart rate dynamics assessments showed alignment among twin pairs, absent between unmatched pairs. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this pilot study is novel within the twin research paradigm and is a first step toward exploring the effects of meditation in twins. Preregistration: This study was not preregistered and was carried out under IRB protocol MED02#20211477. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12671-025-02584-x.
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