Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation

By Richard J. Davidson, J. Kabat‐Zinn, Jessica R. Schumacher, M. Rosenkranz, Daniel Muller, Saki F. Santorelli, Ferris Urbanowski, A. Harrington, Katherine A Bonus, J. Sheridan. Psychosomatic Medicine, 2003

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A systematic review of neurobiological and clinical features of mindfulness meditations (2009, background): “Further studies observed an effect of MBSR and MBCT on prefrontal alpha asymmetry in different populations (Davidson et al. 2003 ; Barnhofer et al. 2007).”
Contemplative Education: A Systematic, Evidence-Based Review of the effect of Meditation Interventions in Schools (2015, background): “Indeed, research has shown that meditation induces changes in the prefrontal cortex, which oversees higher-level executive functions, including attention, concentration and emotional regulation (Cahn and Polich 2006; Davidson et al. 2003; Greeson 2009; Lutz et al. 2008a).”
Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness: An Introduction (2007, background): “So too, we have observed that a 2-month course in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) can produce alterations in patterns of prefrontal brain activity that we have previously found to accompany positive affect (Davidson et al., 2003 ).”
Enhancing Cognitive and Social–Emotional Development Through a Simple-to-Administer Mindfulness-Based School Program for Elementary School Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial (2015, background): “Previous research with adults has shown that cognitive processes associated with PFC, known collectively as EFs, are improved through regular mindfulness attention training (R. J. Davidson et al., 2003; Hölzel et al., 2011; Jha, Krompinger, & Baime, 2007).”
Mindfulness-based interventions in schools—a systematic review and meta-analysis (2014, background): “…populations: reducing stress, increasing well-being and strengthening immune www.frontiersin.org June 2014 | Volume 5 | Article 603 | 1 functions (Davidson et al., 2003; Chiesa and Serretti, 2009; Eberth and Sedlmeier, 2012); promoting personal development such as self-compassion, empathy and…”
Examining workplace mindfulness and its relations to job performance and turnover intention (2014, background): “, 2010), neuroscience (e.g. Creswell et al., 2007; Davidson et al., 2003), medicine (e.”
Mechanisms of Action in the Inverse Relationship Between Mindfulness and Psychological Distress (2008, background): “Past research has found that mindfulness is associated with positive psychological adjustment (Brown & Ryan, 2003) and that interventions designed to increase mindfulness improve psychological adjustment (see, e.g., Davidson et al., 2003; Kabat-Zinn et al., 1992; Teasdale et al., 2000).”
Integrating Mindfulness Training into K-12 Education: Fostering the Resilience of Teachers and Students (2012, background): “A randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a healthy workplace group demonstrated that an 8-week training in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) reduced the subjective sense of stress, enhanced the subjective sense of well-being, improved immune function, decreased brain activity in regions associ”
Mindfulness: Theoretical Foundations and Evidence for its Salutary Effects (2007, neutral): “, 2004; Shapiro, Bootzin, Figueredo, Lopez, & Schwartz, 2003) and others reporting null findings (e.g., Carlson et al., 2004; Davidson et al., 2003).”
Leading Mindfully: Two Studies on the Influence of Supervisor Trait Mindfulness on Employee Well-Being and Performance (2012, positive): “For example, research has found that mindfulness reduces chronic pain (Kabat-Zinn et al. 1985), increases immunity (Davidson et al. 2003), reduces anxiety (Kabat-Zinn et al. 1992), and increases psychological wellbeing and positive affect (Brown and Ryan 2003).”
World happiness report (2012, methodology): “In preparing and revising this chapter, we have benefited from the kind advice of Rafael Di Tella, Paul Dolan, Richard Easterlin, Nicole Fortin, Bruno Frey, Dan Gilbert, Carol Graham, Stephen Hicks, Haifang Huang, Ron Inglehart, Daniel Kahneman, Richard Layard, Richard Lucas, Conal Smith, Neil Thin,”
The Coherent Heart Heart-Brain Interactions, Psychophysiological Coherence, and the Emergence of System-Wide Order (2009, background): “, 2000), alter frontal brain asymmetry (Davidson et al., 2003), and increase immunity (Davidson et al.”
Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review (2010, background): “…have been found to shift the resting lateralization patterns in the brain to the left frontal lobes; the shift is associated with greater approach tendencies (Davidson et al., 2003) and leads to boosts in overall well-being and social connection (Fredrickson, Cohn, Coffey, Pek, & Finkel, 2008).”