Contemplative Neuroscience and Integrative Medicine (CNIM) Laboratory, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.
Contemplative Neuroscience and Integrative Medicine (CNIM) Laboratory, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2019 Aug;28:143-150. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.12.015. Epub 2018 Dec 27.
One potential pathway by which mindfulness-based meditation improves health outcomes is through changes in cognitive functioning. Here, we summarize and comment upon three systematic reviews conducted over the last seven years that have had the goal of identifying the impact of mindfulness on cognitive outcomes. In our analysis, we identified a number of methodological limitations and potential confounding factors that interfere with and limit our ability to interpret the results. In order to gain a granular view of the relationship between mindfulness training and cognition, we report on the following: 1) What do we know? How does mindfulness affect cognition? 2) variable criteria that define an MBI; 2) limitations of assays used to measure cognition; and 3) methodological quality of an MBI trial and reporting of findings. Finally, we offer constructive means for interpretation and recommendations for moving the field of mindfulness research forward regarding effects on cognition.
通过正念冥想改善健康结果的一个潜在途径是通过认知功能的改变。在这里，我们总结并评论了过去七年进行的三项系统评价，这些评价旨在确定正念对认知结果的影响。在我们的分析中，我们发现了一些方法学上的限制和潜在的混杂因素，这些因素干扰并限制了我们解释结果的能力。为了更详细地了解正念训练与认知之间的关系，我们报告了以下内容：1）我们知道什么？正念如何影响认知？2）定义 MBIs 的变量标准；2）用于测量认知的测定法的局限性；以及 3）MBI 试验的方法学质量和研究结果的报告。最后，我们提供了有建设性的解释方法，并为正念研究领域在认知影响方面的发展提出了建议。
