NCT00379210

Neural Effects of Mindfulness Training on Attention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine behavioral and neural changes resulting from Mindfulness Meditation Training (MMT), and to use this knowledge in advancing our understanding of the mechanisms of attention.

Detailed description

Mindfulness Meditation Training (MMT) has been used successfully to decrease stress, pain, and adverse health symptoms in a varied subject population. MMT has been described as "paying attention in a particular way." Although attention is a key component of meditation, little is known about the cognitive and neural changes within the human attention system that result from MMT. In this study, we examine the effects of MMT on the human attention system using neurobehavioral measures. Here MMT comprises participation in a Mindfulness-Based-Stress-Reduction (MBSR) course, while the comparison group participates in a nutrition education course, both 8 weeks long. We compare the performance and neural activity of these groups both before and after participation in the course.

Conditions

• No Condition
• Focus is Neural Effects of Mindfulness Training on Attention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mindfulness Meditation Training (MMT)	8-week training course in mindfulness meditation
BEHAVIORAL	Nutrition Education course	8-week course in nutrition

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-09-01
• Primary completion: 2009-08-01
• Completion: 2009-08-01
• First posted: 2006-09-21
• Last updated: 2012-01-26
• Results posted: 2012-01-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States