Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – using meditation – provides equivalent protection against depressive relapse as antidepressant medication, reports a new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The study, appearing in the Archives of General Psychiatry, involved people who were diagnosed with major depressive disorder and were all treated with an antidepressant until their […]
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Meditation Shown To Slow Progression Of HIV
Researchers at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) report that the practice of mindfulness meditation can halt the decline of CD4-T cells in HIV-positive patients. CD4-T cells are the “brains” of the immune system, but they are also the cells that are attacked by HIV, which slowly eats away at the CD4-T cells […]