FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·August 20, 2021·4 min readMindfulness May Improve Cognition in Older AdultsMindfulness and meditation may offer small but significant benefits to cognition, especially in older adults.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·July 14, 2021·7 min readMindfulness Meditation Can Make Some Americans More Selfish and Less GenerousMindful meditation causes those who consider themselves to be more "independent-minded" or egocentric to become less generous and more selfish, researchers report.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·April 30, 2021·3 min readMindfulness Programs Can Boost Children’s Mental HealthMindfulness training can help increase optimism, enhance positive mood, and negate some of the effects of stress by improving mental health in school-aged children.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·April 13, 2021·4 min readMindfulness Can Make You SelfishOften touted as helping to improve personal mental states, a new study reveals mindfulness can actually make people more selfish. Those who consider themselves to be more independent-minded, rather than having a pluralistic mindset, demonstrate a decrease in prosocial behavior following mindful meditation.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·January 11, 2021·7 min readMindfulness Can Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing, but It’s Unlikely to Work for EveryoneIn most community settings, compared with doing nothing, mindfulness reduced stress, anxiety, depression, and increased wellbeing. However, in some cases, mindfulness may be no better than other practices to reduce anxiety and depression.Read More
Brain CancerFeaturedNeurosciencePainPsychology·January 10, 2021·5 min readMindfulness Can Help Ease the Pain of Breast Cancer SurvivorsMindfulness-based stress reduction can help reduce symptoms of neuropathic pain in breast cancer survivors.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·March 6, 2020·4 min readMusic intervention and mindfulness reduces the effect of mental fatigueOn-the-spot binaural beats and daily mindfulness training can help reduce the effects of mental fatigue.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·January 6, 2020·5 min readMindfulness makes it easier to forget your fearsDaily training with a mindfulness app has lasting effects on extinction learning.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceNeuroscience Videos·December 27, 2019·3 min readMindfulness video game changes areas of the brain associated with attentionTenacity, a newly developed video game that promotes mindfulness, alters connectivity between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the inferior parietal cortex. These areas of the brain are critical for attention. After playing the game for a short period, participants reported improvements in attention.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·November 11, 2019·4 min readHow meditation can help you make fewer mistakesMindfulness and meditation can help reduce errors. The brain's ability to detect and pay attention to mistakes improves following one session of twenty-minute meditation.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·October 24, 2019·3 min readMindfulness meditation enhances positive effects of psilocybinMindful meditation enhances the positive effects of a single dose of psilocybin by increasing empathy and reducing egocentricity.Read More
FeaturedNeurologyNeuroscience·August 16, 2019·4 min readAdults with mild cognitive impairment can learn and benefit from mindfulness meditationOlder adults with mild cognitive impairment who practiced mindful meditation for 20 minutes a day were more likely to have an understanding of the underlying concepts of mindfulness. The study demonstrates memory impairments associated with MCI do not preclude learning mindfulness skills.Read More
