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
PARMJIT SINGH, PhD
Sometime back one of my friends called and said, “Everything seems great in my life. And still I feel a constant low-noise anxiety and antiness which won’t go away”. As I reflected on our conversation, my friend’s example is not an isolated case. We are living through an age of anxiety: sometimes it is situationalRead more
Stress and its rude cousin distress follow us day in and day out these days. Whether it is Monday or it is Friday, there is always something to worry about. Little bit of periodic stress is good for us. It helps us to get going, optimize immune system and sharpens thinking processes. But only ifRead more
As we head into the time of changing leaves and temperature, there also comes the vulnerability to catch inflammation of various sorts. A study published in Biological Psychiatry showed that, “…that mindfulness meditation training, compared to relaxation training, reduces Interleukin-6, an inflammatory (inflammation promoting) health biomarker, in high-stress, unemployed community adults.” Study further states thatRead more