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1. Mindfulness meditation improves cognition: evidence of brief mental training. Zeidan F, Johnson SK, Diamond BJ, David Z, Goolkasian P.  Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA

2. The effects of brief mindfulness meditation training on experimentally induced pain. Zeidan F, Gordon NS, Merchant J, Goolkasian P.Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA.

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Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density. Hölzel BK, Carmody J, Vangel M, Congleton C, Yerramsetti SM, Gard T, Lazar SW.  Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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Can meditation slow rate of cellular aging? Cognitive stress, mindfulness, and telomeres.  Epel E, Daubenmier J, Moskowitz JT, Folkman S, Blackburn E.  University of California San Francisco, Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco, California 94143, USA

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A randomized controlled trial of mindfulness meditation versus relaxation training: effects on distress, positive states of mind, rumination, and distraction.Jain S, Shapiro SL, Swanick S, Roesch SC, Mills PJ, Bell I, Schwartz GE.  SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program, Clinical Psychology, San Diego, CA 92103-0804, USA

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Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators. Jacobs TL, Epel ES. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2010 Oct 29.

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Impact of mindfulness-based stress reduction training on intrinsic brain connectivity. Kilpatrick LA, Suyenobu BY, Smith SR, Bueller JA, Goodman T, Creswell JD, Tillisch K, Mayer EA, Naliboff BD. Center for Neurobiology of Stress, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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Antidepressant monotherapy vs sequential pharmacotherapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, or placebo, for relapse prophylaxis in recurrent depression. Segal ZV, Bieling P, Young T, MacQueen G, Cooke R, Martin L, Bloch R, Levitan RD.  Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Mindfulness-based eating awareness training for treating binge eating disorder: the conceptual foundation.  Kristeller JL, Wolever RQ.  Department of Psychology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809, USA.

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Pilot study: Mindful Eating and Living (MEAL): weight, eating behavior, and psychological outcomes associated with a mindfulness-based intervention for people with obesity. Dalen J, Smith BW, Shelley BM, Sloan AL, Leahigh L, Begay D.Oregon Research Institute, Center for Family and Adolescent Research, Albuquerque, NM 87102, United States.  

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. Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation. Antoine Lutz, Heleen A. Slagter, John D. Dunne, and Richard J. Davidson, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA

12. How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Craig AD.