PARMJIT SINGH, PhD

Do mindfulness exercises reduce diabetes distress? Diabetes distress and its burden can have significant impact on the quality of life. In addition to standard treatment, scientists have been exploring the likely effect of mindfulness training on this condition. One such recent meta-analytic study (a better indicator of evidence) published in the BMJ Open Diabetes CareRead more

Medication or meditation for anxiety disorders: which one is better? One of the recent research studies published in the Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience suggested that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) looks to be effective in patients affected with anxiety disorders, especially for whom conventional pharmaco-therapy (treatment with medication) has not worked. What scientists wanted to seeRead more

Meditation induces genetic changes? Could this be believable? Previous studies have indicated toward that possibility and a recent study published in the journal of Brain, Behavior and Immunity adds to that knowledge base further. In a comparison study between trained meditators who were exposed to a daylong intense meditation practice and controls who were exposedRead more

Unlearning fear(s) can set us free by opening new doors to life. A review study published in the Journal of Biological Psychiatry (2019) indicated that training in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction may lead to fear extinction by inducing changes in hippocampus (the brain part essential in learning new information and strategies). This de-conditioning is oneRead more