Cargando…
Mindful Aging: The Effects of Regular Brief Mindfulness Practice on Electrophysiological Markers of Cognitive and Affective Processing in Older Adults
There is growing interest in the potential benefits of mindfulness meditation practices in terms of counteracting some of the cognitive effects associated with aging. Pursuing this question, the aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of mindfulness training on executive control an...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Springer US
2015
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5241348/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28163795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12671-015-0482-8 |
_version_ | 1782496170222813184 |
---|---|
author | Malinowski, Peter Moore, Adam W. Mead, Bethan R. Gruber, Thomas |
author_facet | Malinowski, Peter Moore, Adam W. Mead, Bethan R. Gruber, Thomas |
author_sort | Malinowski, Peter |
collection | PubMed |
description | There is growing interest in the potential benefits of mindfulness meditation practices in terms of counteracting some of the cognitive effects associated with aging. Pursuing this question, the aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of mindfulness training on executive control and emotion regulation in older adults, by means of studying behavioral and electrophysiological changes. Participants, 55 to 75 years of age, were randomly allocated to an 8-week mindful breath awareness training group or an active control group engaging in brain training exercises. Before and after the training period, participants completed an emotional-counting Stroop task, designed to measure attentional control and emotion regulation processes. Concurrently, their brain activity was measured by means of 64-channel electroencephalography. The results show that engaging in just over 10 min of mindfulness practice five times per week resulted in significant improvements in behavioral (response latency) and electrophysiological (N2 event-related potential) measures related to general task performance. Analyses of the underlying cortical sources (Variable Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography, VARETA) indicate that this N2-related effect is primarily associated with changes in the right angular gyrus and other areas of the dorsal attention network. However, the study did not find the expected specific improvements in executive control and emotion regulation, which may be due to the training instructions or the relative brevity of the intervention. Overall, the results indicate that engaging in mindfulness meditation training improves the maintenance of goal-directed visuospatial attention and may be a useful strategy for counteracting cognitive decline associated with aging. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s12671-015-0482-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-5241348 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2015 |
publisher | Springer US |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-52413482017-02-01 Mindful Aging: The Effects of Regular Brief Mindfulness Practice on Electrophysiological Markers of Cognitive and Affective Processing in Older Adults Malinowski, Peter Moore, Adam W. Mead, Bethan R. Gruber, Thomas Mindfulness (N Y) Original Paper There is growing interest in the potential benefits of mindfulness meditation practices in terms of counteracting some of the cognitive effects associated with aging. Pursuing this question, the aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of mindfulness training on executive control and emotion regulation in older adults, by means of studying behavioral and electrophysiological changes. Participants, 55 to 75 years of age, were randomly allocated to an 8-week mindful breath awareness training group or an active control group engaging in brain training exercises. Before and after the training period, participants completed an emotional-counting Stroop task, designed to measure attentional control and emotion regulation processes. Concurrently, their brain activity was measured by means of 64-channel electroencephalography. The results show that engaging in just over 10 min of mindfulness practice five times per week resulted in significant improvements in behavioral (response latency) and electrophysiological (N2 event-related potential) measures related to general task performance. Analyses of the underlying cortical sources (Variable Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography, VARETA) indicate that this N2-related effect is primarily associated with changes in the right angular gyrus and other areas of the dorsal attention network. However, the study did not find the expected specific improvements in executive control and emotion regulation, which may be due to the training instructions or the relative brevity of the intervention. Overall, the results indicate that engaging in mindfulness meditation training improves the maintenance of goal-directed visuospatial attention and may be a useful strategy for counteracting cognitive decline associated with aging. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s12671-015-0482-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2015-12-28 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5241348/ /pubmed/28163795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12671-015-0482-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Malinowski, Peter Moore, Adam W. Mead, Bethan R. Gruber, Thomas Mindful Aging: The Effects of Regular Brief Mindfulness Practice on Electrophysiological Markers of Cognitive and Affective Processing in Older Adults |
title | Mindful Aging: The Effects of Regular Brief Mindfulness Practice on Electrophysiological Markers of Cognitive and Affective Processing in Older Adults |
title_full | Mindful Aging: The Effects of Regular Brief Mindfulness Practice on Electrophysiological Markers of Cognitive and Affective Processing in Older Adults |
title_fullStr | Mindful Aging: The Effects of Regular Brief Mindfulness Practice on Electrophysiological Markers of Cognitive and Affective Processing in Older Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Mindful Aging: The Effects of Regular Brief Mindfulness Practice on Electrophysiological Markers of Cognitive and Affective Processing in Older Adults |
title_short | Mindful Aging: The Effects of Regular Brief Mindfulness Practice on Electrophysiological Markers of Cognitive and Affective Processing in Older Adults |
title_sort | mindful aging: the effects of regular brief mindfulness practice on electrophysiological markers of cognitive and affective processing in older adults |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5241348/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28163795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12671-015-0482-8 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT malinowskipeter mindfulagingtheeffectsofregularbriefmindfulnesspracticeonelectrophysiologicalmarkersofcognitiveandaffectiveprocessinginolderadults AT mooreadamw mindfulagingtheeffectsofregularbriefmindfulnesspracticeonelectrophysiologicalmarkersofcognitiveandaffectiveprocessinginolderadults AT meadbethanr mindfulagingtheeffectsofregularbriefmindfulnesspracticeonelectrophysiologicalmarkersofcognitiveandaffectiveprocessinginolderadults AT gruberthomas mindfulagingtheeffectsofregularbriefmindfulnesspracticeonelectrophysiologicalmarkersofcognitiveandaffectiveprocessinginolderadults |