MedTrace Logo

The Effects of Well-being Interventions on Affect, Attention, Sleep, Social Stress and Pain Regulation

NCT01057368 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 161

Last updated 2014-06-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study is focused on the brain mechanisms and peripheral biological correlates of two different forms of meditation--mindfulness-based and compassion/loving-kindness. Project 1 is focused on the impact of compassion/loving-kindness meditation on emotional reactivity and emotion regulation. Project 2 is focused on the neural and behavioral correlates of mindfulness meditation and attention and pain regulation. In addition, Project 2 will examine the relations between changes in oscillatory rhythms during meditation and attention and pain processing. Project 3 will examine the impact of meditation on spontaneous brain activity during sleep. This project will also examine the impact of intensive meditation on regional changes in slow wave activity during subsequent sleep. Each of these projects will be conducted on the same participants so that interrelations among the various measures collected in the different projects can be examined. We believe that this study will dramatically advance the understanding of the mechanisms by which meditation produces changes in behavioral and biological processes.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Day of intensive meditation practice

Long-term meditators practice for \~6 hours of meditation at each time point

BEHAVIORAL

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

8-week class designed to enhance well-being through training in mindfulness meditation

BEHAVIORAL

Health Enhancement Program (HEP)

8-week class designed to enhance well-being through training in physical activity, functional movement, music therapy, and nutrition

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Wisconsin, Madison

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Richard J Davidson, PhD · UW-Madison

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-11-30
Primary Completion
2012-03-31
Completion
2012-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Entities

Diseases

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT01057368 on ClinicalTrials.gov