Amishi P. Jha

TL;DR: Whereas participation in the MBSR course improved the ability to endogenously orient attention, retreat participation appeared to allow for the development and emergence of receptive attentional skills, which improved exogenous alerting-related process.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that sufficient MT practice may protect against functional impairments associated with high-stress contexts, and that MT-related improvements in WMC may support some but not all of MT's salutary effects.

TL;DR: The effects of randomization to mindfulness training (MT) or to a waitlist-control condition on psychological and physiological indicators of teachers' occupational stress and burnout were examined in two field trials as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Facial expressions of pain were found to engage cortical areas also engaged by the first-hand experience of pain, including anterior cingulate cortex and insula, which lend support to the idea that common neural substrates are involved in representing one's own and others' affective states.

TL;DR: This article examines the construct of mindfulness in psychological research and reviews recent, nonclinical work in this area, interpreting it as a continuum of practices involving states and processes that can be mapped into a multidimensional phenomenological matrix which itself can be expressed in a neurocognitive framework.