Meditation Research
This section lists links to research into the various impacts of meditation practice.
Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation
Meditation Practices for Health: State of the Research
Regulation of the Neural Circuitry of Emotion by Compassion Meditation: Effects of Meditative Expertise
Investigation of mindfulness meditation practitioners with voxel-based morphometry
Mindfulness meditation for the treatment of chronic low back pain in older adults: A randomized controlled pilot study
A Pilot Study Evaluating Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Massage for the Management of Chronic Pain
Behavioral Therapies Trials: A Case Example
Neural correlates of attentional expertise in long-term meditation practitioners
Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness
Studies of Advanced Stages of Meditation in the Tibetan Buddhist and Vedic Traditions. I: A Comparison of General Changes
Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation
Neuroimaging of meditation's effect on brain reactivity to pain
Mental Training Affects Distribution of Limited Brain Resources
Effects of Transcendental Meditation on mental health: a before-after study
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Health Promotion with the Transcendental Meditation Program and Maharishi Consciousness-Based Health Care
Review of Controlled Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program and Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Factors, Morbidity, and Mortality
"Thinking about Not-Thinking": Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing during Zen Meditation
Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice
The role of thought suppression in the relation between mindfulness meditation and alcohol use
Stress Reduction Programs in Patients with Elevated Blood Pressure: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Effectiveness of Transcendental Meditation on Functional Capacity and Quality of Life of African Americans with Congestive Heart Failure: A Randomized Control Study
Impact of stress reduction on negative school behavior in adolescents
Relaxation training for anxiety: a ten-years systematic review with meta-analysis
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the Aging with a Traditional System of Natural MedicineMaharishi Vedic Medicine (MVM)
A pilot study on mindfulness based stress reduction for smokers
The therapeutic effects of meditation: The conditions treated are stress related, and the evidence is weak
Attending to the present: mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Stress Reduction in African Americans Treated for Hypertension for Over One Year
An exploratory mixed methods study of the acceptability and effectiveness of mindfulness -based cognitive therapy for patients with active depression and anxiety in primary care
Complementary and alternative medical therapies for chronic low back pain: What treatments are patients willing to try?
Complimentary and Alternative Medicine for Sleep Disturbances in Older Adults
Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Intervention on Psychological Well-being and Quality of Life: Is Increased Mindfulness Indeed the Mechanism?
Complementary and alternative medicine approaches to blood pressure reduction: An evidence-based review
Improvements in Chronic Diseases With a Comprehensive Natural Medicine Approach: A Review and Case Series
The effect of long term combined yoga practice on the basal metabolic rate of healthy adults
Long-Term Effects of Stress Reduction on Mortality in Persons ≥55 Years of Age With Systemic Hypertension
Self-help interventions for depressive disorders and depressive symptoms: a systematic review
Relaxation therapies for asthma: a systematic review
CAM and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Shingles Immunity and Health Functioning in the Elderly: Tai Chi Chih as a Behavioral Treatment
A Multidimensional Integrative Medicine Intervention to Improve Cardiovascular Risk
Use of Mind-Body Medical Therapies: Results of a National Survey
Behavioral Therapies Trials: A Case Example
Mind/Body Psychological Treatments for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
CAM Therapies to Promote Healthy Moods
The Influence of Yoga-Based Programs on Risk Profiles in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review
Meditation: a modulator of the immune response to physical stress? A brief report
Physician and patient attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine in obstetrics and gynecology
Sahaja yoga in the management of moderate to severe asthma: a randomised controlled trial
Learning to Pay Attention
Ki: A Key to Transform the Century of Death to the Century of Life
The effect of web based depression interventions on self reported help seeking: randomised controlled trial
Hormonal and biochemical responses to transcendental meditation
Phantom limb pain, cortical reorganization and the therapeutic effect of mental imagery
Research on psychoneuroimmunology: tai chi as a stress management approach for individuals with HIV disease
Mindfulness training and neural integration: differentiation of distinct streams of awareness and the cultivation of well-being
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the Yale School of Nursing
Can we still recommend meditation?
Stress, stress reduction, and hypertension in African Americans: an updated review
The 3 H and BMSEST Models for Spirituality in Multicultural Whole-Person Medicine
Stress reactivity to and recovery from a standardised exercise bout: a study of 31 runners practising relaxation techniques
The Transcendental Meditation program
Can we still recommend meditation?
Religiosity in patients with Parkinson's disease
CAM and the Phenomenology of Pain
Mindbody research moves towards the mainstream
Coronary risk factor reduction through biofeedback-aided relaxation and meditation
PsychiatryEpitomes of Progress: Meditation: Clinical and Health-Related Applications
Desensitization using meditation-hypnosis to control "needle" phobia in two dental patients
Complementary Therapy for Addiction: "Drumming Out Drugs"
AFFECTIVE GUIDANCE OF INTELLIGENT AGENTS: How Emotion Controls Cognition
Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response
Chronic Pain, Stress, and the Dynamics of Affective Differentiation
Use of Alternative Health Care Practices by Persons With Serious Mental Illness: Perceived Benefits
Hormonal and biochemical responses to transcendental meditation
Transcendental Meditation
RANDOMIZED, CONTROLLED, SIX-MONTH TRIAL OF YOGA IN HEALTHY SENIORS: EFFECTS ON COGNITION AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Editorial:Meditation or methyldopa?
Meditation in general practice
Spirituality and Medicine: Science and Practice
Improving Sleep Quality in Older Adults with Moderate Sleep Complaints: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Tai Chi Chih
Just being
Spirituality and clinical care : Placebo or not - we may never know
Coming home to mindfulness in medicine
AN EXPLORATION OF THE MEANING OF SPIRITUALITY VOICED BY PERSONS LIVING WITH HIV DISEASE AND HEALTHY ADULTS
"As the Dew Is Dried Up by the Morning Sun, So Are Mankind's Sins at the Sight of Himalaya"
Traumatic brain injury: future assessment tools and treatment prospects
A Review of Yoga Programs for Four Leading Risk Factors of Chronic Diseases
Low protein diet and chronic renal failure in Buddhist monks
Yoga for bronchial asthma: a controlled study
Editorial: Meditation and bodily changes
States of Consciousness
Mortality among Japanese Zen priests