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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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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.
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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.
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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.
Mindfulness contributors
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David Mischoulon, MD, PhD
Director, Depression Clinical and Research Program
Recent Article
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy Shows Promise for Treating Depression in Chronically Ill Patients
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Jonathan Greenberg, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Recent Article
Mindfulness Training Reduces Proactive Interference in Working Memory
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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
Improvement Needed in Genetic Test–Guided Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder
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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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