Together, their research suggests that individual differences in sensory and cognitive processing in our brains can both predict mental health and be amenable to training through new technological applications. Tuning into interoception, how someone senses their body’s internal state, is an important component of mindfulness training that could aid in managing mood disorders such as depression. In another set of studies published in ENeuro, Farb and colleagues looked specifically at attention to the breath, a central practice in mindfulness training. In one of the studies published in Nature Human Behaviour, the researchers recruited healthy young adults to participate in six weeks of meditation training via the app. There are few vaccines suitable for use in babies younger than six months old. Many backpacks have secret pockets located against the back panel, but few keep them completely hidden the way the WANDRD PRVKE does. Marriage was another way that white outsiders could make a claim at an Osage headright. The researchers also used data from questionnaires that included a set of questions such as: Did a close family member use drugs or alcohol in a way that caused you to worry?
The participants also were given a variety of questionnaires and physical and cognitive assessments, among other tests. The study includes 879 participants over age 70 who donated muscle and fat samples as well as other biospecimens. He and the team looked at images of participants’ muscles taken during exercise and during rest inside an MRI machine. Using a technique called 31 PMR spectroscopy, SOMMA researchers were able to determine the rate of ATP synthesis by looking at how fast the muscle was able to synthesize ATP after it was depleted by exercise. The cognitive neuroscientists presenting their latest findings at CNS 2024 are excited about the potential benefits of mindfulness training not only to individuals but also to researchers exploring the roots of cognition in the brain. The researchers participating in the CNS 2024 symposium on mindfulness and meditation are eager to see the potential benefits of these practices extend to broad populations.
Nyhus, Farb, and Ziegler not only all study mindfulness and meditation but they are also practitioners, though they may have started with some hesitance or skepticism. Nyhus, whose work in this space was inspired by an 8-week course she took in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. In all the work, the researchers found attention benefits from the digital training, and in the newest study they found that the training also led to a decrease in stress reactivity and a lengthening of telomeres (a blood biomarker of cellular aging). They found that while attention to external senses such as vision activates the corresponding visual cortex, attention to the breath tends to deactivate the cerebral cortex, including regions where appraisal and cognitive control occurs. These improvements were associated with positive changes in key neural signatures of attentional control. The key was microscopic ceramic particles in the paint that harden in the paint shop oven. Step 5: Once the paint has dried, repeat the stenciling process using the leaf stencil and a different color paint. The electrical activity of the brain was measured using 256 electrodes, each sampled one thousand times per second.
The researchers teased apart the fiber bundles that compose muscle, and examined them using high-resolution mitochondrial respirometry. The study examined the function of skeletal muscle of older adults paired with surveys of adverse events they had experienced in childhood. At CNS 2024, Ziegler is presenting data from recently published papers that used the app in young adults, aging adults, and tote bags supplier adolescents with childhood neglect, as well as a new study in healthy older adults. Thus by focusing their attention inward, young adults were able to improve their outward attention. They found gains in both sustained attention and working memory in this group, which has proven difficult for researchers in the past. As Farb’s team’s research continues to understand how paying attention to the breath changes brain processes, they are also excited to begin applying what they have learned in technology-driven applications. Their mediation app, MediTrain, is rooted in basic research in neuroplasticity and specifically how the brain can compensate for deficits in attentional control.