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Time, Touch, Attention and the Autonomic Nervous System

NCT01428674 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2018-08-15

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to describe the onset, duration and dose-response of interpersonal mindful compassion on respiratory rate and heart rate variability in healthy adults in order to prepare for research evaluating the impact of this intervention in patient populations and to prepare for basic research investigating the CNS mechanisms for observed effects.

Previous research has found that mindfulness meditation, including mindful compassion, results in autonomic changes in the practitioner. Emerging neuroscience of dyadic interactions suggests that through the effects of mirror neuron isopraxis, one person's physiologic state may be mirrored by another. However, no research has directly evaluated the impact of one person's mindful compassion on another person's autonomic activity. This study paves the way for an entirely new avenue of research inquiry.

Conditions

  • Stress

Interventions

OTHER

Interpersonal Mindful Compassion with Touch

A practitioner lightly touches the participant on the hands, arms, shoulders, lower legs and feet while extending loving kindness to the participant.

OTHER

Reading while extending loving kindness

The practitioner sits in a room with the participant, pretending to read, while extending loving kindness to the participant.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Wake Forest University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kathi J Kemper, MD · Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-02-28
Primary Completion
2011-06-30
Completion
2011-06-30

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