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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.
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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.
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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.
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Within-Subject Reliability in fMRI Studies of Advanced Meditation
Recent research establishes strong proof of concept for studying advanced meditation in controlled neuroimaging settings.
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Mind–Body Intervention for Chronic Pain Benefits Adults 50 and Older
Massachusetts General Hospital researchers provide novel evidence that adults ages 50 and older with chronic pain benefit from a mind–body program designed to increase physical function—and show even greater benefits in pain and performance-based physical function than younger adults.
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Mindfulness Training Promotes Neuroplasticity In Young Adults with A History of Childhood Maltreatment
In a pilot study, mindfulness training promoted hippocampal plasticity with associated improvements in clinical symptoms and episodic memory.
Mindfulness Contributors
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David Mischoulon, MD, PhD
Director, Depression Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Joyce R. Tedlow Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Heated Yoga Linked to Reduction of Moderate to Severe Depressive Symptoms in Randomized Controlled Trial
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Jonathan Greenberg, PhD
Research Staff Psychologist, Center for Health Outcomes and Interdisciplinary Research, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Mind–Body Intervention for Chronic Pain Benefits Adults 50 and Older
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Maurizio Fava, MD
Psychiatrist-In-Chief; Director, Division of Clinical Research of the MGH Research Institute, Executive Director, Clinical Trials Network and Institute (CTNI), Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Dean for Clinical & Translational Research, Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Recent Article
Propensity Score Weighting Accounts Well for Placebo Response in Two Trials of Medical Therapy for MDD
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Sara Lazar, PhD
Associate Researcher in Psychiatry
Recent Article
Mindfulness Training Promotes Neuroplasticity In Young Adults with A History of Childhood Maltreatment
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