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Ordering
The Blissful Brain
The Blissful Brain is published
by Gaia Thinking. For more information on how to order your
copy, please click
here.
Guardian
G2: Mind over matter by Andy Darling
"Neuroscientist Shanida Nataraja has
proven meditation does more than clear your head, it can put
both halves of your brain to work, improving your concentration,
memory, and decision-making...". To read more, please
click
here.
Upcoming
talk: Yoga Ananda, Reigate, Surrey on Friday the 4th of June
Shanida Nataraja will be speaking at a seminar
on The Blissful Brain on Friday, 04th June 2010 at
19:30 at Yoga Ananda Ltd. 46 Albert Road North, Reigate, Surrey,
RH2 9EL. For more information, please click
here.
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The
Oxford Mindfulness Centre
The Oxford Mindfulness Centre aims to promote the potential
of mindfulness-based approaches in mental and physical health.
It is a charitable enterprise that operates within Oxford
University’s Department of Psychiatry and collaborates closely
with the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Mental Healthcare NHS
Trust.
The centre provides mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)
training courses for NHS patients, particularly those with
depression or fatigue, as well as providing a range of training
courses for healthcare professionals interested in applying
MBCT to the healthcare setting.
Two pivotal studies were run at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre.
These two studies investigated whether MBCT is effective in
preventing relapse in patients with depression, and found
that, in patients who had had three or more previous depressive
relapses, MBCT can reduce the rate of relapse in the subsequent
12 months by 55% (Teasdale et al., 2000, Ma and Teasdale,
2004). As a result, MBCT is now recommended in the guidelines
of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), an
independent organisation that provides national guidance on
healthcare matters. as a viable treatment of choice for patients
with recurrent depression. Research is ongoing, in collaboration
with the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice in Bangor
University, to establish whether MBCT can reduce the risk
of depressive relapse in patients who have had suicidal thoughts
in previous depressive episodes, as well as reducing the amount
of suicidal thoughts during depressive episodes when they
occur.
References:
Ma, J. & Teasdale, J.D. (2004) Mindfulness-based cognitive
therapy for depression: Replication and exploration of differential
relapse prevention effects. Journal of Consulting & Clinical
Psychology, 72, 31-40.
Teasdale, J.D., Segal, Z.V., Williams, J.M.G, et al (2000).
Reducing risk of recurrence of major depression using Mindfulness-Based
Cognitive Therapy. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology,
68, 615-23.
For more information, please see the centre’s website at:
http://www.oxfordmindfulness.org.
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