Following an 18-month meditation programme can improve the wellbeing of older adults, finds a new randomised controlled trial by an international team co-led by UCL. The findings, published in PLOS ...

Daily meditation is no longer framed only as a path to calm, it is increasingly described in laboratories as a workout that reshapes the brain’s wiring. Imaging studies suggest that regular practice ...

Mindfulness meditation proponents often tout it as a way to create a more compassionate society. But that claim seems a bit dubious upon first glance. After all, meditation is an internal ...

Meditation could protect older people against Alzheimer's, according to research. Meditation boosts attention, awareness, and emotional health—faculties that decline with dementia. The findings, in ...

If you're worried about your dwindling attention span or what might happen to your brain as you get older, consider picking up meditation. The most extensive longitudinal study to date on how ...

Scientists have developed a personalized digital meditation training program that significantly improved attention and memory in healthy young adults -- a group already at the peak of brain health -- ...

Humans have less attention span than goldfish! A number of sites, including Time.com, reported a few years ago that we were only able to hold our attention for 8 seconds, compared with 9 seconds for a ...

Research out of the Brown University School of Public Health found that mindfulness training resulted in a meaningful reduction in blood pressure and an improved diet. "About half of American adults ...

The University of Wisconsin was the first school to hire a full-time meditation coach for athletes. The hiring was influenced by a 2017 pilot program with former NFL players. Wisconsin football alumni ...

Montee Ball and Chris Borland helped Wisconsin win the inaugural Big Ten championship in 2012. Five years later, they helped the university make a groundbreaking addition to its athletic training ...