This five-year follow-up of an earlier mindfulness trial looked at longer-term effects on mild depression, anxiety, and general thinking skills in older adults with early memory problems, extending the original nine-month findings.
This study protocol describes a trial testing whether mindfulness training can help prevent dementia in older adults with mild memory problems, tracking effects on thinking skills as well as a range of blood and brain markers linked to ageing.
This trial found that nine months of mindfulness training improved attention-related thinking skills and was linked to a thickening in a brain region tied to attention, compared with a health education programme, in older adults with mild memory problems.
This trial found that mindfulness training improved thinking test scores in older adults with mild memory problems while also changing the mix of bacteria in their gut, suggesting the gut may play a role in how mindfulness benefits the brain.
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This study used brain scan data and computer models to predict how well older adults with mild memory problems would score on 10 different thinking tests, aiming to reduce the need for long, sometimes unreliable memory testing sessions.
Using brain scans of 82 older adults with mild memory problems, this study linked how well-connected the brain is to telomere length (a marker of cellular ageing), and showed this connection could help predict memory and planning test scores.
This trial tested whether mindfulness training could lower a saliva marker linked to Alzheimer’s disease in older adults with mild memory problems, compared with a health education programme, extending earlier findings on mindfulness and body markers of brain health.
This trial found that mindfulness training changed how different parts of the brain communicate with each other in older adults with mild memory problems, showing that mindfulness can produce measurable changes in the brain.
This trial found that nine months of mindfulness training reduced markers of inflammation in the blood of older adults with mild memory problems, compared with a health education programme, suggesting mindfulness may help slow processes linked to cognitive decline.
This trial compared mindfulness training with a general health education programme in elderly Singaporeans with mild memory problems. Both groups showed improved mood after nine months, though neither group showed a clear improvement in memory or thinking test scores.
