Living with pain is stressful, but a surprisingly short investment of time in mental training can help you cope. A new study examining the perception of pain and the effects of various mental training ...

Following an 18-month meditation programme can improve the wellbeing of older adults, finds a new randomised controlled trial by an international team co-led by UCL. The findings, published in PLOS ...

People of any age or walk of life can access and benefit from meditation. Daniel de la Hoz/iStock via Getty Images Plus Many people look to diet trends or new exercise regimens – often with ...

If you're worried about your dwindling attention span or what might happen to your brain as you get older, consider picking up meditation. The most extensive longitudinal study to date on how ...

Mindfulness meditation proponents often tout it as a way to create a more compassionate society. But that claim seems a bit dubious upon first glance. After all, meditation is an internal ...

With roots in Hindu and Buddhist traditions, meditation training has hit the mainstream as a way to cope with stress and improve focus, productivity, and relaxation. Estimated to be a $1.1 billion ...

Mindfulness meditation is an increasingly popular treatment for anxiety, but testing its effectiveness in a convincing way has been difficult. Now a rigorously designed, NIH-sponsored clinical trial ...

Scientists have developed a personalized digital meditation training program that significantly improved attention and memory in healthy young adults -- a group already at the peak of brain health -- ...

The University of Wisconsin was the first school to hire a full-time meditation coach for athletes. The hiring was influenced by a 2017 pilot program with former NFL players. Wisconsin football alumni ...

Humans have less attention span than goldfish! A number of sites, including Time.com, reported a few years ago that we were only able to hold our attention for 8 seconds, compared with 9 seconds for a ...

Montee Ball and Chris Borland helped Wisconsin win the inaugural Big Ten championship in 2012. Five years later, they helped the university make a groundbreaking addition to its athletic training ...