Psychotherapy and psychosomatics
January 1, 2025
Jojo Yan Yan Kwok, Lily Man Lee Chan, Charis Ann Lai et al.
13 citations
In people with Parkinson's disease, 8 weeks of either meditation or yoga, compared to usual care, led to significant reductions in anxiety, motor symptoms, and chronic inflammation (measured by interleukin-6 levels), and improved health-related quality of life and the ability to describe experiences. Only meditation significantly reduced depressive symptoms and sustained the improvements in motor symptoms and quality of life at 6 months. The study involved 159 participants with mild to moderate Parkinson's disease who were randomly assigned to meditation, yoga, or a control group.
Frontiers in neuroscience
January 1, 2025
Junling Gao, Hang Kin Leung, Kin Cheung George Lee et al.
6 citations
Mindfulness meditation and 6 Hz high-entropy music both alter adolescent brain dynamics, but in distinct ways. In twenty-eight high school students, single-channel EEG at the forehead during three 5-minute conditions—rest, meditation, and music—showed that music produced the strongest alpha-band synchronization across participants, followed by meditation, then rest. Meditation yielded the highest clustering coefficient and small-world index, indicating more integrated and efficient neural networks. Music generated the largest information cascades and synergy, suggesting extensive information integration. While both interventions changed brain dynamics compared to rest, meditation fostered integrated connectivity, whereas music produced the greatest element-wise correlation.
BMC complementary medicine and therapies
July 17, 2023
Jojo Yan Yan Kwok, Man Auyeung, Shirley Yin Yu Pang et al.
6 citations
A trial will test whether individual mindfulness techniques—meditation or yoga—help Parkinson's disease patients manage anxiety and depression, which affect 40–50% of patients. Participants will be randomly assigned to meditation, yoga, or usual care for 8 weeks. The study measures anxiety, depression, motor and non-motor symptoms, quality of life, mindfulness, and stress biomarkers at baseline, 8 weeks, and 24 weeks. Qualitative interviews with 30 participants per intervention group will explore their experiences. The research aims to inform community-based, nurse-led compassionate care models for neurodegenerative conditions.
BMC psychology
July 1, 2025
Patrick Pui Kin Kor, Kee Lee Chou, Alex Pak Lik Tsang et al.
2 citations
A new closed-loop mindfulness program, delivered partly through a mobile app called Mind & Care, is being tested against a traditional mindfulness program and a brief education control in a randomized controlled trial with 189 family caregivers of people with dementia. The closed-loop program adapts practice durations based on the user's attentional capacity and provides quantifiable feedback to support sustained practice. The primary outcome is perceived stress; secondary outcomes include depressive symptoms, peace of mind, caregiving burden, relationship quality, dispositional mindfulness, heart rate variability, and the care recipient's neuropsychiatric symptoms.