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Practices like yoga or meditation that increase mind/body awareness help people learn a brain-computer interface quicker.
Lifestyle changes to diet and exercise will be important to aging populations as non-drug, easy-to-follow interventions with few side effects, make ideal potential therapies.
The experiences and choices people make throughout life actively impact the brain. As humans live longer, these choices also affect aging and quality of life.
Also healthy lifestyle choices could have positive impact in depression treatment, the effects of aging, and learning.
They found moderate evidence of improvement in symptoms of anxiety, depression and pain after participants underwent what was typically an eight-week training program in mindfulness meditation.
To conduct their review, the investigators focused on 47 clinical trials performed through June 2013 among 3,515 participants that involved meditation and various mental and physical health issues, including depression, anxiety, stress, insomnia,
Goyal and his colleagues found that so-called "mindfulness meditation" - a form of Buddhist self-awareness designed to focus precise, nonjudgmental attention to the moment at hand - also showed promise in alleviating some pain symptoms as well as
The researchers evaluated the degree to which those symptoms changed in people who had a variety of medical conditions, like insomnia or fibromyalgia, although only a minority had been diagnosed with a mental illness.
Madhav Goyal, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said that in their study, meditation appeared to provide as much relief from some anxiety and
About 30 minutes of meditation daily could help improve symptoms of anxiety and depression, a new analysis of previously published research has suggested.