npj Mental Health Research - Functional connectivity-related changes underlying mindfulness meditation for internet gaming disorder: a randomized clinical trial

npj Parkinson's Disease - A randomized clinical trial of mindfulness meditation versus exercise in Parkinson’s disease during social unrest

How is your attention span these days? Environmental distractions and rising use of technology can heavily affect our ability to hold focus, as can lack of rest, general stress, and anxiety. Since longer attention spans are linked to better overall well-being, finding ways to sharpen our focus is increasingly important in today’s tech-heavy world. Researchers from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology were especially interested in whether mindfulness could enhance attention spans in older adults, but they discovered something even better: Just 30 days of guided meditation significantly improved people’s ability to direct their attention, no matter how old the participants were.

Thousands of peer-reviewed scientific papers prove that mindfulness enhances mental and physical wellbeing and reduces chronic pain. Clinical trials, including a major study at the University of Cambridge,...

Our research suggests mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is not just effective, it’s cost-saving too.

Recent research found that mindfulness meditation creates a unique state of relaxed alertness, marked by specific brainwave changes linked to focus and awareness, distinct from simple relaxation, and ...

Nature Mental Health - Developing a robust approach to mitigating the current opioid crisis in the USA will require translating novel evidence-based, neuroscience-informed treatments into clinical...