Following an 18-month meditation programme can improve the wellbeing of older adults, finds a new randomised controlled trial by an international team co-led by UCL. The findings, published in PLOS ...

Daily meditation is no longer framed only as a path to calm, it is increasingly described in laboratories as a workout that reshapes the brain’s wiring. Imaging studies suggest that regular practice ...

Meditation could protect older people against Alzheimer's, according to research. Meditation boosts attention, awareness, and emotional health—faculties that decline with dementia. The findings, in ...

The 2026 Olympics are here, and Italian alpine skier Sofia Goggia has one piece of advice for all the athletes involved: meditate.

Mindfulness meditation proponents often tout it as a way to create a more compassionate society. But that claim seems a bit dubious upon first glance. After all, meditation is an internal ...

If you're worried about your dwindling attention span or what might happen to your brain as you get older, consider picking up meditation. The most extensive longitudinal study to date on how ...

Humans have less attention span than goldfish! A number of sites, including Time.com, reported a few years ago that we were only able to hold our attention for 8 seconds, compared with 9 seconds for a ...

The University of Wisconsin was the first school to hire a full-time meditation coach for athletes. The hiring was influenced by a 2017 pilot program with former NFL players. Wisconsin football alumni ...

Can you come home to yourself? Meditation is to the mind what aerobic exercise is to the body. Like exercise, there are many good ways to do it, and you can find the one that suits you best. Studies ...

Montee Ball and Chris Borland helped Wisconsin win the inaugural Big Ten championship in 2012. Five years later, they helped the university make a groundbreaking addition to its athletic training ...