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Open AccessLong-term mindfulness training is associated with reliable differences in resting respiration rate
Respiration rate is known to correlate with aspects of psychological well-being, and attention to respiration is a central component of mindfulness meditation training. Both traditional contemplative systems a...
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Open AccessReduced age-associated brain changes in expert meditators: a multimodal neuroimaging pilot study
Aging is associated with progressive cerebral volume and glucose metabolism decreases. Conditions such as stress and sleep difficulties exacerbate these changes and are risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. Me...
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Open AccessCompared to self-immersion, mindful attention reduces salivation and automatic food bias
Immersing ourselves in food images can sometimes make it feel subjectively real, as if the actual food were right in front of us. Excessive self-immersion into mental content, however, is a hallmark of psychol...
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Open AccessThe Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Impulsivity and its Neurobiological Correlates in Healthy Adults
Interest has grown in using mindfulness meditation to treat conditions featuring excessive impulsivity. However, while prior studies find that mindfulness practice can improve attention, it remains unclear whe...
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Open AccessReduced processing of afforded actions while observing mental content as ongoing mental phenomena
While consciousness is typically considered equivalent to mental contents, certain meditation practices—including open monitoring (OM)—are said to enable a unique conscious state where meditators can experienc...
