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mindfulness
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Treatments
December 1, 2022
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Equivalent to Escitalopram for Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Hoge et al reported in JAMA Psychiatry (2022) that in a randomized clinical trial of 276 adults with anxiety disorders, 8-week treatment with mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) was noninferior to escitalopram. The ...
Biology
June 13, 2013
Meditation Improves Mood and White Matter Integrity
New research shows that regular meditation in the form of mindfulness training improves both mood and measures of white matter (axon tract) integrity and plasticity in the anterior cingulate cortex (a key node in the brain...