Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on the Immune System in HIV Patients

Mindfulness meditation training has been found to be able to reduce stress in different patient populations. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles studied the effects of meditation on CD4+ T lymphocyte counts in stressed HIV infected adults (Creswell et al., 2009). In the study, the patients took an 8-week Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) [...] http://digg.com/u13gCD

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