Exercise and mindfulness training did not improve older people’s brain health in a surprising new study published this week in JAMA. The experiment, which enrolled more than 580 older men and ...

Neuroscientist David Vago begins each day with meditation. Like millions worldwide, Vago sees his mindfulness practice as good medicine holistically promoting health. Inspired by the staggering ...

“Likewise, mindfulness training is beneficial because it reduces stress, and stress can be bad for your brain. Therefore, we hypothesized that if older adults exercised regularly, practiced ...

Like a thick velvety headband, the somatosensory cortex arcs across the top of brain from just above one ... during my training in mindfulness-based interventions and dance movement therapy ...

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Contact: Joseph Wielgosz, wielgosz@stanford.edu; Richard Davidson, director of UW–Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds, rjdavids@wisc.edu MADISON, Wis. — Research at the University of ...

A person's working memory (WM) allows them to process information, multitask, pay attention and block out distractions, among other mental processes. These cognitive abilities can become harder ...