The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Cognitive Processes and Affect in Patients with Past Depression

Ramel, Wiveka; Goldin, Philippe R.; Carmona, Paula E.; McQuaid, John R.

doi:10.1023/b:cotr.0000045557.15923.96

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“…This finding was interpreted as reflecting increased interference from internally generated thoughts and rumination processes. In line with this, mindfulness meditation has been shown to reduce the occurrence of ruminative thoughts in remitted depressed patients (Ramel et al, 2004). Thus, the greater mindfulness-induced deactivation of the MPFC and PCC measured here -in experienced meditators relative to beginners -may reflect an adaptive process through which present-moment awareness is enhanced in individuals with long-term meditation experience, and information in the environment is processed with reduced distractibility and interference from self-referent thought or ruminative processes.…”

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Impact of mindfulness on the neural responses to emotional pictures in experienced and beginner meditators

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There is mounting evidence that mindfulness meditation is beneficial for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, yet little is known regarding the neural mechanisms through which mindfulness modulates emotional responses. Thus, a central objective of this functional magnetic resonance imaging study was to investigate the effects of mindfulness on the neural responses to emotionally laden stimuli. Another major goal of this study was to examine the impact of the extent of mindfulness training on the brain mechanisms supporting the processing of emotional stimuli. Twelve experienced (with over 1000 h of practice) and 10 beginner meditators were scanned as they viewed negative, positive, and neutral pictures in a mindful state and a non-mindful state of awareness. Results indicated that the Mindful condition attenuated emotional intensity perceived from pictures, while brain imaging data suggested that this effect was achieved through distinct neural mechanisms for each group of participants. For experienced meditators compared with beginners, mindfulness induced a deactivation of default mode network areas (medial prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortices) across all valence categories and did not influence responses in brain regions involved in emotional reactivity during emotional processing. On the other hand, for beginners relative to experienced meditators, mindfulness induced a down-regulation of the left amygdala during emotional processing. These findings suggest that the long-term practice of mindfulness leads to emotional stability by promoting acceptance of emotional states and enhanced present-moment awareness, rather than by eliciting control over low-level affective cerebral systems from higher-order cortical brain regions. These results have implications for affect-related psychological disorders.

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Section: Brain Patterns Related To Mindfulness In Experienced Meditatsupporting

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Impact of mindfulness on the neural responses to emotional pictures in experienced and beginner meditators

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“…One clinical intervention currently widely under investigation is mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). MBCT can be conceived as attentional control training (Baer, 2003) with an influence on DLPFC activity (for a review, see Cahn & Polich, 2006), attentional control (Jha, Krompinger, & Baime, 2007), and ruminative thinking (Ramel, Goldin, Carmona, & McQuaid, 2004). Second, over the last years, rTMS over the DLPFC has emerged as a promising treatment procedure for MDD (Avery et al, 2006;Bortolomasi et al, 2007).…”

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Understanding vulnerability for depression from a cognitive neuroscience perspective: A reappraisal of attentional factors and a new conceptual framework

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Koster

2010

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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“…If this is supported, this would provide valuable information as to whether rumination is a potential mediating variable that would be a meaningful target for intervention with this population. Evidence from a study using depressed patients in a non-custodial setting suggests that brief 8-week interventions that target rumination produce positive outcomes (Ramel, Goldin, Carmona, & McQuaid, 2004); interventions targeting rumination may therefore provide an economical and effective means of addressing challenging behaviours within custodial settings.…”

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Borderline Personality Traits, Rumination, and Self-Injurious Behavior: An Empirical Test of the Emotional Cascades Model in Adult Male Offenders

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Dodsworth²,

Selby

2014

Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice

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The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Cognitive Processes and Affect in Patients with Past Depression

Cited by 452 publications

References 54 publications

Impact of mindfulness on the neural responses to emotional pictures in experienced and beginner meditators

Impact of mindfulness on the neural responses to emotional pictures in experienced and beginner meditators

Understanding vulnerability for depression from a cognitive neuroscience perspective: A reappraisal of attentional factors and a new conceptual framework

Borderline Personality Traits, Rumination, and Self-Injurious Behavior: An Empirical Test of the Emotional Cascades Model in Adult Male Offenders

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