Oxidative stress and male infertility

S Bisht, M Faiq, M Tolahunase, R Dada - Nature Reviews Urology, 2017 - nature.com
DNA damage, largely owing to oxidative stress, is a leading cause of defective sperm
function. High levels of oxidative stress result in damage to sperm DNA, RNA transcripts …

Mindfulness meditation and the immune system: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

DS Black, GM Slavich - Annals of the new York Academy of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Mindfulness meditation represents a mental training framework for cultivating the state of
mindful awareness in daily life. Recently, there has been a surge of interest in how …

The impact of psychosocial stress and stress management on immune responses in patients with cancer

MH Antoni, FS Dhabhar - Cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The range of psychosocial stress factors/processes (eg, chronic stress, distress states,
coping, social adversity) were reviewed as they relate to immune variables in cancer along …

Mindfulness training and physical health: mechanisms and outcomes

JD Creswell, EK Lindsay, DK Villalba… - Psychosomatic …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Objective There has been substantial research and public interest in mindfulness
interventions, biological pathways, and health for the past two decades. This article reviews …

Prospects for a clinical science of mindfulness-based intervention.

S Dimidjian, ZV Segal - American Psychologist, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are at a pivotal point in their future development.
Spurred on by an ever-increasing number of studies and breadth of clinical application, the …

Determinants of quality of life in individuals with chronic low back pain: a systematic review

A Agnus Tom, E Rajkumar, R John… - Health Psychology …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Objective Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a prominent medical condition that can affect an
individual at some point in their life time which could lead to poor quality of life (QOL). Low …

The effect of mindfulness-based therapy on anxiety and depression: A meta-analytic review.

SG Hofmann, AT Sawyer, AA Witt… - Journal of consulting and …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Although mindfulness-based therapy has become a popular treatment, little is
known about its efficacy. Therefore, our objective was to conduct an effect size analysis of …

Mindfulness meditation for younger breast cancer survivors: a randomized controlled trial

JE Bower, AD Crosswell, AL Stanton, CM Crespi… - Cancer, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Premenopausal women diagnosed with breast cancer are at risk for
psychological and behavioral disturbances after cancer treatment. Targeted interventions …

Mindfulness-based stress reduction training reduces loneliness and pro-inflammatory gene expression in older adults: a small randomized controlled trial

JD Creswell, MR Irwin, LJ Burklund… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Lonely older adults have increased expression of pro-inflammatory genes as well as
increased risk for morbidity and mortality. Previous behavioral treatments have attempted to …

Effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on symptom variables and health-related quality of life in breast cancer patients—a systematic review …

Q Zhang, H Zhao, Y Zheng - Supportive Care in Cancer, 2019 - Springer
Objective The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the
effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) in breast cancer patients …