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Mindfulness Training Reduces Proactive Interference in Working Memory

Researchers at Mass General have shown for the first time why mindfulness training affects both working memory and hippocampal volume—and why it might help treat a much broader range of conditions.

Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Psychiatry

Journal September 19, 2018

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Brief Mindfulness Intervention Benefits Patients in Outpatient Orthopedics Clinic

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have become the first to show that a short mindfulness-based exercise benefits patients in an orthopedic surgery clinic.

Anxiety and Stress, Mindfulness, Orthopaedics

Journal September 14, 2018

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Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy Shows Promise for Treating Depression in Chronically Ill Patients

Mass General researchers were part of the first group to investigate whether mindfulness-based cognitive therapy might relieve depression in people with chronic pain.

Depression, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Psychiatry

Journal May 24, 2018

Study Points to Cognitive Bias in Medical Decision-making

Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, led a study that suggests that the "left-digit bias" affects age-related risk assessment before bypass surgery.

Cardiovascular, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Mindfulness, Myocardial Infarction

Article June 2, 2020

Building Resiliency in Patients and Caregivers to Guard Against Emotional Distress After Brain Injury

Massachusetts General Hospital's novel Neuroscience ICU program aims to prevent emotional stress after acute brain injury for patients and their primary caregivers.

Anxiety and Stress, Mindfulness, Neurology, Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury

Article September 12, 2019