{"id":327933,"date":"2010-02-16T17:21:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T22:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharpbrains.com\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2010-02-16T17:21:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T22:21:49","slug":"mindfulness-meditation-can-impact-mood-and-working-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/327933","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness Meditation can impact Mood and Working Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting and relevant recent<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2857\" title=\"IKF_CD_4 010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sharpbrains.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IKF_CD_4-010-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IKF_CD_4 010\" width=\"142\" height=\"107\" \/> study on the impact of mindfulness meditation (noticed thanks to heads up by SharpBrains reader John):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/02\/100216101153.htm\" >Building Fit Minds Under Stress<\/a> (Science Daily)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;high-stress U.S. military group preparing for deployment to Iraq has demonstrated a positive link between mindfulness training, or MT, and improvements in mood and working memory&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The study also suggests that sufficient mindfulness training (MT) practice may protect against functional impairments associated with high-stress challenges that require a tremendous amount of cognitive control, self-awareness, situational awareness and emotional regulation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note that this wasn&#8217;t a properly randomized study, so in fact much\/ most of the effect may be due to the placebo effect, but still the findings seem to be consistent with a growing body of evidence on the brain-based effects of structured mental training in the form of meditation (usually mindfulness meditation).<\/p>\n<p>Full study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amishi.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/jha_stanley_etal_emotion_2010.pdf\" >Here<\/a> (opens PDF).<\/p>\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharpbrains.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/meditation-on-the-brain-a-conversation-with-andrew-newberg\/\" >Meditation on the Brain &#8211; a Conversation with Andrew Newberg<\/a>: &#8220;What is happening is that specific practices that have traditionally been associated with religious and spiritual contexts may also be very useful from a mainstream, secular, health point of view, beyond those contexts.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharpbrains.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/mindfulness-and-meditation-in-schools-for-stress-and-anxiety-management\/\" >Mindful Kids, Peaceful Schools<\/a>: With eyes closed and deep breaths, students are learning a new method to reduce anxiety, conflict, and attention disorders. But don\u2019t call it meditation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharpbrains.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/mindfulness-meditation-for-adults-teens-with-adhd\/\" >Mindfulness Meditation for Adults &amp; Teens with Attention Deficits<\/a>: David Rabiner comments on a recent published study, saying that &#8220;although this is clearly a preliminary study, the results are both interesting and encouraging&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting and relevant recent study on the impact of mindfulness meditation (noticed thanks to heads up by SharpBrains reader John): Building Fit Minds Under Stress (Science Daily) &#8220;high-stress U.S. military group preparing for deployment to Iraq has demonstrated a positive link between mindfulness training, or MT, and improvements in mood and working memory&#8221; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}