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Mindfulness meditation practitioners often report an increased awareness of body sensations. Some neuroimaging studies support this claim, revealing that meditators, compared to non-meditators, tend to have denser and more active anterior insulas--a brain region involved in body awareness...


Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) integrates various meditation practices, including focused attention on breathing, open-monitoring, body scanning, walking meditation, and mindful yoga. Attention to diaphragmatic breathing is a key element, and some researchers theorize it ...


Brain imaging studies such as those using fMRI typically find that mindfulness meditation training decreases resting-state activity and neural connectivity within the brain’s default mode network (DMN) and increases connectivity between nodes of the DMN and the salience network....


Welcome to AMRA!

The American Mindfulness Research Association (AMRA) was founded in 2013. The Mindfulness Research Monthly scientific bulletin has been in circulation since 2009. Our mission is to support empirical and conceptual efforts to establish an evidence base for the process, practice, and construct of mindfulness; promote best evidence-based standards for the use of mindfulness research and its applications; facilitate professional development through grant giving; and disseminate newly gained knowledge to the public.

AMRA serves as a professional resource to the sciences and humanities, practice communities, and the broader public on mindfulness from the perspective of contemplative practice.

Learn more about our valuable resources and organizational leadership.

MINDFULNESS RESEARCH MONTHLY

To increase awareness of and inform the latest advances in mindfulness research.

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Journal Club

Recommended Readings for our Community

April 2025 article references added to the AMRA library. Members have full access to the AMRA reference library spanning 1960-2024. Online article access is controlled solely by journal publishers and open access policies and is not controlled by AMRA.

  • Kaiser, V., Diaz, G. B., Schaab, B. L., Calvetti, P. Ü., & Reppold, C. T. (2025). The effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention for depression in adults: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Current Psychology.
  • Kwok, J. Y. Y., Chan, L. M. L., Lai, C. A.,... Ho, R. T. H. (2025). Effects of Meditation and Yoga on Anxiety, Depression and Chronic Inflammation in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
  • McDermott, T. J., Siegle, G. J., Guelfo, A.,... Fani, N. (2025). Find your rhythm and regulate: Breath-synced vibration feedback during breath-focused mindfulness reduces respiration variability in trauma-exposed adults. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
  • Zheng, Y., Dou, Z., Guo, T., Wang, Y., & Zeng, X. (2025). The Effects of Non-Mindfulness Practices and Human Support on Depression, Mental Well-Being, and Mindfulness in Digital Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Four-Armed Randomized Dismantling Trial. Mindfulness.

Early Career Scientist Award

Are you starting a career as a mindfulness researcher? AMRA supports promising scholars through the AMRA Early Career Scientist Award (ECSA) program. Eligible are AMRA members who are currently trainees in masters, doctoral, and postdoctoral programs or within their first two years of terminal degree and currently working at a research institute. The candidate must have one or more first author publications related to mindfulness, and show promise for future impact. Learn more about the program and previous award recipients.

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