Psychology being investigated
The ability to fully concentrate on an activity while performing it
What is Mindfulness?
To investigate, with the help of a longitudinal study, changes in brain grey matter associated with mindfulness-based intervention
What is the Aim of the study?
What is MBSR/no MBSR OR Practice of Mindfulness Meditation?
The length of the MBSR course
What is 8 weekly group meetings?
The development of awareness of present-moment experience with a compassionate, nonjudgemental stance
What is Mindfulness Meditation?
Group who practiced mindfulness meditation
What is MBSR/experimental group?
The research method used in the study
What is a Longitudinal Laboratory experiment?
The three components of the training program
What is Body scan, Mindful yoga, and Sitting meditation?
Specific areas of the brain being highly involved in performing some specific functions
What is Localisation of Function?
Group who did not practice mindfulness meditation
What is the Control group?
Number of participants in the MBSR group
What is 16?
What is 22.6 hours?
A part of the midbrain found to be highly involved in memory processes, modulation of emotion, and learning
What is the Hippocampus?
An experimental design in which you only assign participants to one of the experimental conditions
FFMQ; Self report measure used for both the MBSR and Control group
What is the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire?
The week in which there was a full day (6.5 hr) meeting
What is week Six?
This part underneath the temporal lobe of the brain is found to localise visceral awareness (awareness of automatic functions inside the body and empathy)
What is the Insula?
Increased possibility of confounding participant variables
What is an MRI scan?
This was administered for each participant 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after participation in the program; some participants did not return due to discomfort with this
What is MRI scanning?