Prasanta Pal

TL;DR: Findings provide preliminary evidence that smartphone app-based mindfulness training with experience sampling may lessen the association between craving and smoking, an effect that did not lead to reduced smoking abstinence rates compared with control but may be meaningful to support quitting and prevent relapse in the longer-term.

TL;DR: Experimental results suggest that AA protects arsenic-induced cytotoxicity in murine hepatocytes, and the cytoprotective activity of AA was found to be comparable to that of a known antioxidant, vitamin C.

TL;DR: The findings support the feasibility of using EEG neurofeedback to link an objective measure of brain activity with the subjective experience of effortless awareness, and suggest potential utility of this paradigm as a tool for meditation training.

TL;DR: This is the first intervention study to evaluate smartphone-based delivery of mindfulness training for smoking cessation, and it is suggested that such an intervention may provide treatment in-hand, in real-world contexts, to help individuals quit smoking.

TL;DR: Results show that alpha band functional network topology is better integrated in experienced meditators than in novices during meditation, which provides the rationale to investigate the temporal relation between measures of functional connectivity network integration and meditation quality, for example using neurophenomenology experiments.