SynthesisHealth psychology review2024
Mindfulness enhances cognitive functioning: a meta-analysis of 111 randomized controlled trials.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
- Self-Guided Internet-Based Mindfulness-Informed Stress Management for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial With Longitudinal Network Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- Comparing the effects of sitting meditation and body scan on working memory in undergraduate healthcare students: a single-blind randomised trial.BMC psychology · 2026Trial
- Prescriptive Predictors of Mindfulness Ecological Momentary Intervention for Social Anxiety Disorder: Machine Learning Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trial Data.JMIR mental health · 2025Trial
- Is a brief mindfulness ecological momentary intervention more efficacious than a self-monitoring app for social anxiety disorder? A randomized controlled trial.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2024Trial
- Examining the Effects of a Brief, Fully Self-Guided Mindfulness Ecological Momentary Intervention on Empathy and Theory-of-Mind for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mental health · 2024Trial
- Testing the Efficacy of a Brief, Self-Guided Mindfulness Ecological Momentary Intervention on Emotion Regulation and Self-Compassion in Social Anxiety Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mental health · 2024Trial
- Prepare, don't scare: Rethinking cognitive readiness before epilepsy surgery.Epilepsia open · 2026Article
- The Effect of Brief Mindfulness Meditation on Attention Networks in University Students with Problematic Short-Video Use.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Childhood Threat and Deprivation and Links to Mental Health Behaviors and Health Risk Behaviors Among Young Sexual Minority Men: The Differential Roles of Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Feasibility of Internet-Based Mind-Body Training for Adults With Subjective Cognitive Decline: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Trait depression and emotional experiences in Chinese junior high school students: the chain mediating role of self-compassion and cognitive reappraisal.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Evaluation of two easy-to-implement digital breathing interventions in the context of daily stress levels in a series of N-of-1 trials: results from the Anti-Stress Intervention Among Physicians (ASIP) study.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Middle-Aged and Older Adults' Beliefs, Ratings, and Preferences for Receiving Multicomponent Lifestyle-Based Brain Health Interventions.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Trait mindfulness and aggressive behavior in physical education undergraduates: a cross-sectional serial mediation analysis of anger rumination and self-control.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Yoga-based meditation improves self-regulation and well-being in medical students: a pilot study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Guided mindfulness meditation as a priming strategy for reducing anxiety and facilitating motor skill learning.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Mindfulness training enhances face working memory: evidence from the drift-diffusion model.NPJ science of learning · 2025Article
- Mindfulness Training in Military Settings: Emerging Evidence and Best-Practice Guidance.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Clinical Practice: A Systematic Review of Neurocognitive Outcomes and Applications for Mental Health and Well-Being.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Climate anxiety impairs sustained attention: objective evidence of a cognitive cost.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundCurrently no comprehensive meta-analysis of MBI efficacy on global and unique cognitive subdomains exist.
methodExamined the effects of MBIs on global cognition and 15 cognitive subdomains. Inclusion criteria: meditation naïve participants; randomized controlled trial; outcome included one objective or subjective cognitive functioning measure; primary focus was teaching mindfulness skills. Exclusion criteria: inadequate data; one-session ; control condition contained any MBI component. Robust variance estimation and moderator analyses controlling for presence of treatment fidelity were conducted.
resultsOne-hundred-and-eleven RCTs (
conclusionMBIs consistently yielded small-to-moderate yet practically meaningful effect sizes on global cognition and six cognitive subdomains that captured accuracy vs. latency-based indices of EF and sustained accuracy.
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