Despite widespread scientific and popular interest in mindfulness-based interventions,
questions regarding the empirical status of these treatments remain. We sought to examine …

Meditation is a family of mental practices that encompasses a wide array of techniques
employing distinctive mental strategies. We systematically reviewed 78 functional …

Numerous studies have begun to address how the brain's gray and white matter may be
shaped by meditation. This research is yet to be integrated, however, and two fundamental …

Objective: Kindness-based meditation (KBM) is a rubric covering meditation techniques
developed to elicit kindness in a conscious way. Some techniques, for example, loving …

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 …

This practical book has given tens of thousands of clinicians and students a comprehensive
introduction to mindfulness and its clinical applications. The book describes the …

Although clinical interest has predominantly focused on mindfulness meditation, interest into
the clinical utility of Buddhist-derived loving-kindness meditation (LKM) and compassion …

Over the last decade, empirical research on compassion has burgeoned in the biomedical,
clinical, translational, and foundational sciences. Increasingly sophisticated understandings …

The ability to accurately infer others' mental states from facial expressions is important for
optimal social functioning and is fundamentally impaired in social cognitive disorders such …

Over the past decade mind and body practices, such as yoga and meditation, have raised
interest in different scientific fields; in particular, the physiological mechanisms underlying …