Many of the studies found in the bibliography below are available online. To access them, copy the URL that you see next to each item between the < > into the address bar of your browser (do not be surprised if those URLs sometimes have an unfamiliar format: they are abbreviated addresses thanks to a Google® service).
Grosswald S., Travis F., W. Stixrud, ADHD Brain Functioning and Transcendental Meditation Practice, in Mind & Brain, The Journal of Psychiatry, 2011; 1 (2). Available at: EurekAlert <goo.gl/Pyw4HA>.
Harrison L., Manocha R, Rubia K. Sahaja Yoga Meditation as a Family Treatment Program for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Children in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2003; 9 (4): 479-497. Available at: Free Meditation <goo.gl/nvVPCQ> from p. 479 onwards.
Shah, P., White, H. A., Creative style and achievement in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder, in Personality and Individual Differences, 2012(50): 673-677. Abstract: <goo.gl/J84hkg>.
Zylowska L., Ackerman D. L., Yang M., et al., Mindfulness meditation training in adults and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder – a feasibility study, in Journal of Attention Disorders, 2008; 11(6):737-746. Available at: SAGE Journals <goo.gl/8eAocp>.
Updates on the latest research on ADHD: http://www.helpforadd.com (site organized by David Rabiner, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor, Duke University).
Arch J. J., Berkman E. T., Dickenson J., Lieberman M. D., Neural correlates of focused attention during a brief Mindfulness induction, in SCAN, 01/03/2012. Available at: SCAN. Special Issue on Mindfulness Neuroscience, 2013;8(1) <goo.gl/JGPQnE>.
Arch J. J., Craske M. G., Mechanisms of mindfulness: emotion regulation following a focused breathing induction, in Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2006; 44(12): 1849-1858. Available at: Science Direct <goo.gl/ssJQMW>.
Baer R. A., Mindfulness training as a clinical intervention: a conceptual and empirical review, in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 2003; 10(2): 125-143. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/rFLtKd>.
Behrmann M., Geng J. J., Shomstein S., Parietal cortex and attention, in Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2004; 14(2):212-217. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/uSDFuo>.
Broderick P. C., Mindfulness and coping with dysphoric mood: contrasts with rumination and distraction, in Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2005; 29(5): 501-510. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/CjW58e>.
Brown K. W., Goodman R. J., Inzlicht M., Dispositional mindfulness and the attenuation of neural responses to emotional stimuli, in SCAN, 17/01/2012. Available at: SCAN. Special Issue on Mindfulness Neuroscience, 2013; 8(1) <goo.gl/5vwd92>.
Brown K. W., Ryan R. M., The benefits of being present: mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being, in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003; 84(4): 822-848. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/5k0v2i>.
Brown K. W., Ryan R. M., Creswell J. D., Mindfulness: theoretical foundations and evidence for its salutary effects, in Psychological Inquiry, 2007; 18(4): 211-237. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/OFYeG4>.
Cahn B. R., Polich J., Meditation states and traits: EEG, ERP, and neuroimaging studies. Psychological bulletin, 2006; 132(2): 180-211. Available at: APA PsychNET <goo.gl/ j4Meeb>.
Creswell J. D., Way B. M., Eisenberger N. I., Lieberman M. D., Neural correlates of dispositional mindfulness during affect labeling, in Psychosomatic Medicine, 2007; 69(6): 560-565. Available at: Psychosomatic Medicine <goo.gl/athDCB>.
Davidson R. J., Kabat-Zinn J., Schumacher J., et al., Alterations in brain and immune function produced by mindfulness meditation, in Psychosomatic Medicine, 2003; 65(4): 564-570. Available at: Psychosomatic Medicine <goo.gl/6As8r8>.
Didonna F. (ed.) Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness, New York, Springer 2009.
Farb N. A. S., Segal Z. V., Mayberg H., et al., Attending to the present: meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference, in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2007; 2(4): 313-322.
Flook L., Galla B. M., Ishijima E., Kaiser-Greenland S., Kasari C., Kitil M. J., Locke J., Smalley S. L., Effects of Mindful Awareness Practices on Executive Functions in Elementary School Children, in Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2010; 26: 70-95. Available at: Garrison Institute <goo.gl/OhyjkM>.
Goldin P., Gross J., Effect of mindfulness meditation training on the neural bases of emotion regulation in social anxiety disorder, in Emotion, 2010; 10(1): 83-84. Available at: Pubmed <goo.gl/nSrH74>.
Hölzel B., Ott U., Hempel H., et al., Differential engagement of anterior cingulate and adjacent medial frontal cortex in adept meditators and non-meditators, in Neuroscience Letters, 2007; 421(1): 16-21. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/YqoNjd>.
Ivanovski B., Malhi G. S., The psychological and neurophysiological concomitants of mindfulness forms of meditation, in Neuropsychiatrica, 2007; 19(2): 76-91. Available at: Wiley Online Library <goo.gl/2MIgtA>.
Jha A. P., Krompinger J., Baime M., Mindfulness training modifies subsystems of attention, in Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2007; 7(2): 109-119. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/EyAH08>.
Kabat-Zinn J., An outpatient program in behavioral medicine for chronic pain patients based on the practice of mindfulness meditation: theoretical considerations and preliminary results, in ReVISION, 1984; 7(1): 71-72. Available at: Science Direct <goo.gl/W7xxdr>.
Kabat-Zinn J., Wherever you go, there you are, Hyperion, New York, 1994.
Kabat-Zinn J., Lipworth L., Burney R., The clinical use of mindfulness meditation for the self-regulation of chronic pain, in Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1985; 8(2): 163-190. Available at: Pubmed <goo.gl/3vbS6B>.
McCracken L. M., Gauntlett-Gilbert J., Vowles K. E., The role of mindfulness in a contextual cognitive-behavioral analysis of chronic pain-related suffering and disability, in Pain, 2007; 131(1-2): 63-69. Available at: Pubmed <goo.gl/tcVH9T>.
Moore A., Malinowski P., Meditation, mindfulness and cognitive flexibility, in Consciousness and Cognition, 2009; 18(1): 176-186. Available at: Pubmed <goo.gl/JnG1iV>.
Ricard M., L’uomo più felice del mondo, Amrita Video/ Macrovideo, 2009.
Short E. B., Kose S., Mu Q., et al., Regional brain activation during meditation shows time and practice effects: an exploratory FMRI study, in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2010; 7(1): 121-127. Available at: Pubmed <goo.gl/kFh2iU>.
Tang Y. Y., Ma Y., Wang J., et al., Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2007; 104(43): 17152-17156. Available at: PNAS <goo.gl/sx2o3R>.
Taylor V. A., Grant J., Daneault V., et al., Impact of mindfulness on the neural responses to emotional pictures in experienced and beginner meditators, in Neuroimage, 2011; 57(4): 1524-1533. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/V9SP6C>.
Wallace B. A., Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity, Columbia University Press, New York, 2009.
Zgierska A., Rabago D., Chawla N., Kushner K., Koehler R., Marlatt A., Mindfulness meditation for substance use disorder: a systematic review, in Substance Abuse, 2009; 30(4): 266-294. Available at: Taylor & Francis Online <goo.gl/Y45DEh>.
Updates on the latest research on Mindfulness and Shamatha: <goo.gl/iEW8bh>.
Lobsang Tenzin Negi, Pace T. W. W., Raison C. L., M. D., et al., Effect of Compassion Meditation on Neuroendocrine, Innate Immune and Behavioral Responses to Psychosocial Stress, in Psychoneuroimmunology, 2009; 34(1). Available at <goo.gl/iEW8bh>.
Weng H. Y. et al., Compassion Training Alters Altruism and Neural Responses to Suffering, in Psychological Science, 21/05/2013. Available at: SAGE Journals <goo.gl/7qRjR9>.
Aichele S. R., Blackburn E. H., Bridwell D. A., Epel E. S., Jacobs T. L., King B. G., Lin J., MacLean K. A., Rosenberg E. L., Sahdra B. K., Saron C. D., Shaver P. R., Wallace B. A., Wolkowitz O. M., Zanesco A. P., Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators, in Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2010; 36(5). Available at: Science Direct <goo.gl/rv3TP2>.
Braboszcz C., Hahusseau S., Delorme A., Meditation and neuroscience: from basic research to clinical practice, in: Carlstedt R. A. (ed.), Integrative Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine: Perspectives, Practices and Research, Springer Publishing, New York 2010, pp. 1910-1929. Available at: Google Scholar <goo.gl/Qx55SZ>.
Marlatt G. A., Pagano R. R., Rose R. M., Marques J. K., Effects of meditation and relaxation training upon alcohol use in male social drinkers, in: Shapiro D. H., Walsh R. N. (eds.), Meditation: Classic and contemporary perspectives, Aldine, New York 1984, p. 105-120. Available at: Google Books <goo.gl/12sdhj>.
Newberg A. B., Iversen J., The neural basis of the complex mental task of meditation: neurotransmitter and neurochemical considerations, in Medical Hypotheses, 2003; 61(2): 282-291. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/ud2Dn1>.
Brefczynski-Lewis J. A., Lutz A., Schaefer H. S., Levinson D. B., Davidson R. J., Neural correlates of attentional expertise in long-term meditation practitioners, in Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States of America, 2007; 104(27): 1143-1148. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/J3XidD>.
Brown K. W., West A. M., Loverich T. M., Biegel G. M., Assessing adolescent mindfulness: validation of an adapted Mindful Attention Awareness Scale in adolescent normative and psychiatric populations, in Psychological Assessment, 2011b; 23: 1023-1033. Available at: APA PsychNET <goo. gl/OV4OLH>.
Corbetta M., Shulman G. L., Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain, in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2002; 3(3): 201-215. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/AVrkKN>.
Dong M., Kanai R., Bahrami B., Rees G., The anatomy of superior parietal cortex links everyday distractibility with attentional capture, in Journal of Vision, 2010; 10(7): 124.
Eckert M. A., Menon V., Walczak A., et al., At the heart of the ventral attention system: the right anterior insula, in Human Brain Mapping, 2009;30(8):2530-2541. Available at: Wiley Online Library <goo.gl/EnWQb7>.
Hasenkamp W., Wilson-Mendenhall C. D., Duncan E., Barsalou L. W., Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: a fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states, in Neuroimage, 2012; 59(1):750-760. Available at: Pubmed <goo.gl/53oFjQ>.
Hopfinger J. B., Buonocore M. H., Mangun G. R., The neural mechanisms of top-down attentional control, in Nature Neuroscience, 2000;3(3):284-291. Available at: Nature <goo.gl/pFlwiv>.
Kondo H., Osaka N., Osaka M., Cooperation of the anterior cingulate cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for attention shifting, in Neuroimage, 2004; 23(2): 670-679. Available at: Science Direct <goo.gl/7b7bjw>.
Lutz A., Slagter H. A., Dunne J. D., Davidson R. J., Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation, in Trends in Cognitive Science, 2008; 12(4): 163-169. Available at: Pubmed <goo.gl/0zM8LH>.
Manna A., Raffone A., Perrucci M. G., et al., Neural correlates of focused attention and cognitive monitoring in meditation, in Brain Research Bulletin, 2010;82(1-2):46-56. Available at: Science Direct <goo.gl/Z0wUqo>.
Mason M. F, Norton M. I., Van Horn J. D., Wegner D. M., Grafton S. T., Macrae C. N., Wandering minds: the default network and stimulus-independent thought, in Science, 2007; 315(5810): 393-395.
Menon V., Uddin L. Q., Saliency, switching, attention and control: a network model of insula function, in Brain Structure and Function, 2010; 214(5-6): 655-667. Available at: SpringerLink <goo.gl/bVmMnn>.
Moore A., Malinowski P., Meditation, mindfulness and cognitive flexibility, in Consciousness and Cognition, 2009; 18(1): 176-186. Available at: Pubmed <goo.gl/ WTTx1C>.
Posner M. I., Rothbart M. K., Research on attention networks as a model for the integration of psychological science, in Annual Review of Psychology, 2007; 58(1): 1-23. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/4VZpW9>.
Raz A., Buhle J., Typologies of attentional networks, in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2006; 7(5): 367-379. Available at: Nature <goo.gl/CEQhte>.
Shulman G. L., Pope D. L., Astafiev S. V., McAvoy M. P., Snyder A. Z., Corbetta M., Right hemisphere dominance during spatial selective attention and target detection occurs outside the dorsal frontoparietal network, in Journal of Neuroscience, 2010; 30(10): 3640-3651. Available at: Journal of Neuroscience <goo.gl/gugUAl>.
Spreng R. N., Mar R. A., Kim A. S., The common neural basis of autobiographical memory, prospection, navigation, theory of mind and the default mode: a quantitative meta-analysis, in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009; 21(3): 489-510. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/eHUjgi>.
Wager T. D., Jonides J., Reading S., Neuroimaging studies of shifting attention: a meta-analysis. [Meta-Analysis], in Neuroimage, 2004; 22(4): 1679-1693. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/Rfc2UC>.
Weissman D. H., Roberts K. C., Visscher K. M., Woldorff M. G., The neural bases of momentary lapses in attention, in Nature Neuroscience, 2006; 9(7): 971-978. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/giZYOh>.
Carmody J., Dusek J. A., Evans K. C., Hoge E. A., Hölzel B. K., Lazar S. W., Morgan L., Pitman R. K., Stress reduction correlates with structural changes in the amygdala, in SCAN, 23/09/2009. Available at: SCAN <goo.gl/z7Gkbi>.
Lazar S. W., Bush G., Gollub R. L., Fricchione G. L., Khalsa G., Benson H., Functional brain mapping of the relaxation response and meditation, in Neuroreport, 2000; 11(7): 1581-1585. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/FEHVkN>.
Muggia D., Accompagnamento empatico fondato sulla tradizione tibetana in contesto ospedaliero: due studi, 2008. Published online at <goo.gl/OZssi3>.
Witek-Janusek L., Albuquerque K., Rambo Chroniak K., Chroniak C., Durazo-Arvizu R., Matthews H. L., Effect of mindfulness based stress reduction on immune function, quality of life and coping in women with newly diagnosed early stage breast cancer, in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2008; 22(6): 969-981. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/OOLkW9>.
Zeidan F., Gordan N. S., Merchant J., Goolkasian P., The effects of brief mindfulness meditation training on experimentally induced pain, in The Journal of Pain, 2010; 11(3): 199-209. Available at: Web of Knowledge <goo.gl/4oYSvI>.
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Garrison Institute Report, Contemplation in Education. A Survey of Programs Using Contemplative Techniques, in K-12 Educational Settings: A Mapping Report, 10/2005.
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Roncaglia G., Felice... mente, L’Età dell’Acquario, Torino, Italy 2013.
Updates regarding the application of meditation in schools: <http://mindfulnessinschools.org/> and <http://www.meditationinschools.org/>.
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Wallace B. A., Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity, Columbia University Press, New York 2009.
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