How does mindfulness meditation work? Proposing mechanisms of action from a conceptual and neural perspective

BK Hölzel, SW Lazar, T Gard… - Perspectives on …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Cultivation of mindfulness, the nonjudgmental awareness of experiences in the present
moment, produces beneficial effects on well-being and ameliorates psychiatric and stress …

Kinds and dimensions of mindfulness: Why it is important to distinguish them

D Dorjee - Mindfulness, 2010 - Springer
The number of research studies on clinical aspects of mindfulness and neural correlates of
meditation practices involving mindfulness is fast growing. But, what is understood as …

Tools of the trade: theory and method in mindfulness neuroscience

YY Tang, MI Posner - Social cognitive and affective …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Mindfulness neuroscience is an emerging research field that investigates the underlying
mechanisms of different mindfulness practices, different stages and different states of …

Investigating the phenomenological matrix of mindfulness-related practices from a neurocognitive perspective.

A Lutz, AP Jha, JD Dunne, CD Saron - American Psychologist, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
There has been a great increase in literature concerned with the effects of a variety of mental
training regimes that generally fall within what might be called contemplative practices, and …

The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation

YY Tang, BK Hölzel, MI Posner - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Research over the past two decades broadly supports the claim that mindfulness meditation—
practiced widely for the reduction of stress and promotion of health—exerts beneficial effects …

The neuroscience of mindfulness: How mindfulness alters the brain and facilitates emotion regulation

MS Wheeler, DB Arnkoff, CR Glass - Mindfulness, 2017 - Springer
Here we present a survey of the current state of the neuroscience of mindfulness, integrating
it into a theoretical framework of emotion regulation and linking research to clinical practice …

A translational neuroscience perspective on mindfulness meditation as a prevention strategy

YY Tang, LD Leve - Translational behavioral medicine, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Mindfulness meditation research mainly focuses on psychological outcomes such as
behavioral, cognitive, and emotional functioning. However, the neuroscience literature on …

Mind the hype: A critical evaluation and prescriptive agenda for research on mindfulness and meditation

NT Van Dam, MK Van Vugt, DR Vago… - Perspectives on …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
During the past two decades, mindfulness meditation has gone from being a fringe topic of
scientific investigation to being an occasional replacement for psychotherapy, tool of …

The neurobiology of mindfulness

MT Treadway, SW Lazar - Clinical handbook of mindfulness, 2009 - Springer
As Western culture has become more aware of Eastern spiritual traditions, scientists have
been increasingly interested in verifying the anecdotal claims from expert meditators …

The neural substrates of mindfulness: an fMRI investigation

VL Ives-Deliperi, M Solms, EM Meintjes - Social Neuroscience, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
“Mindfulness” is a capacity for heightened present-moment awareness that we all possess to
a greater or lesser extent. Enhancing this capacity through training has been shown to …