在10月11日的PNAS的網(wǎng)絡版上公示了一篇由大連理工大學神經(jīng)信息研究所所長唐一源教授領(lǐng)導的研究組發(fā)表的新論文,，論文的題目是“短時間冥想訓練提高注意力和自控能力”（Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation）。
注意力無法集中,、無法抵御毒品等誘惑是常見的心理精神問題,。近期的研究顯示,，數(shù)月到數(shù)年的高強度、系統(tǒng)的冥想訓練能夠改善注意力難集中問題,。但是,，訓練的時間長度使得很難利用隨機分配參與者的方式來證實這些發(fā)現(xiàn)。
這篇新的文章證實,，一組隨機指派的5天的冥想訓練組（身體和思想合一的訓練方法）與進行放松訓練的對照組相比,，其注意力和壓力控制力明顯較好。
這種訓練方法來源于傳統(tǒng)中醫(yī)方法并整合了其他冥想和注意力訓練的一些特點,。與對照組相比,，試驗組中接受了連續(xù)5天接受了20分鐘綜合訓練的40名中國大學生在注意力網(wǎng)絡測試（Attenion Network Test）、降低焦慮,、抑郁,、忿怒、中分數(shù)提高較明顯,；心境狀態(tài)量表(Profile of mood states Scale)活力較高,；壓力相關(guān)皮質(zhì)(甾)醇明顯降低；免疫活性增加,。
這些結(jié)果為使用與檢測藥物或其他干擾物相似的試驗,、對照方法研究冥想訓練的影響提供了一種方便可行的方法。該論文英文摘要：http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0707678104v1
唐一源 (Yi-yuan TANG),，1966年2月出生，大連理工大學神經(jīng)信息研究所所長,，中美合作腦智實驗室主任,，教授，全球人類腦計劃/神經(jīng)信息學工作組中國代表,。兼任中國人民解放軍總醫(yī)院神經(jīng)信息中心客座教授,，中國生物物理學會理事、神經(jīng)生物物理專業(yè)委員會委員,，中國生理學會神經(jīng)科學專業(yè)委員會委員,，美國身心醫(yī)學會正式會員，Neuroimage, Neuroinformatics審稿人。主要從事腦功能成像(fMRI, PET/SPECT,，ERP),、語言認知的腦內(nèi)信息加工網(wǎng)絡及模式、心理精神問題的腦機制及其干預策略,、神經(jīng)信息學等方面研究,，得到國家973前期專項、國家自然科學基金,、教育部科學技術(shù)研究重大項目,、美國American Parapsychology Foundation特別項目等資助，發(fā)表論文多篇,。
原始出處:
Published online before print October 11, 2007
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0707678104
Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation
Yi-Yuan Tang*,,,,¶, Yinghua Ma*, Junhong Wang*, Yaxin Fan*, Shigang Feng*, Qilin Lu*, Qingbao Yu*, Danni Sui*, Mary K. Rothbart, Ming Fan||, and Michael I. Posner,¶
*Institute of Neuroinformatics and Laboratory for Body and Mind, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116023, China; Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403; Key Laboratory for Mental Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Center for Social and Organizational Behavior, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China; and ||Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing 100850, China
Contributed by Michael I. Posner, August 16, 2007 (sent for review July 26, 2007)
Abstract
Recent studies suggest that months to years of intensive and systematic meditation training can improve attention. However, the lengthy training required has made it difficult to use random assignment of participants to conditions to confirm these findings. This article shows that a group randomly assigned to 5 days of meditation practice with the integrative body–mind training method shows significantly better attention and control of stress than a similarly chosen control group given relaxation training. The training method comes from traditional Chinese medicine and incorporates aspects of other meditation and mindfulness training. Compared with the control group, the experimental group of 40 undergraduate Chinese students given 5 days of 20-min integrative training showed greater improvement in conflict scores on the Attention Network Test, lower anxiety, depression, anger, and fatigue, and higher vigor on the Profile of Mood States scale, a significant decrease in stress-related cortisol, and an increase in immunoreactivity. These results provide a convenient method for studying the influence of meditation training by using experimental and control methods similar to those used to test drugs or other interventions.
anterior cingulate gyrus | attention training | control | mental training
