News tagged with meditation training

Positive psychological changes from meditation training linked to cellular health

(PhysOrg.com) -- Positive psychological changes that occur during meditation training are associated with greater telomerase activity, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the University of ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Meditation helps increase attention span

It's nearly impossible to pay attention to one thing for a long time. A new study looks at whether Buddhist meditation can improve a person's ability to be attentive and finds that meditation training helps people do better ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Experiment shows brief meditative exercise helps cognition

Some of us need regular amounts of coffee or other chemical enhancers to make us cognitively sharper. A newly published study suggests perhaps a brief bit of meditation would prepare us just as well.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study shows brief training in meditation may help manage pain

Living with pain is stressful, but a surprisingly short investment of time in mental training can help you cope.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Visual perception heightened by meditation training

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intensive mental training has a measurable effect on visual perception, according to a new study from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis. People undergoing intensive training ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mindfulness meditation may ease fatigue, depression in multiple sclerosis

Learning mindfulness meditation may help people who have multiple sclerosis (MS) with the fatigue, depression and other life challenges that commonly accompany the disease, according to a study published in the September ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0