TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving Executive Function and Its Neurobiological Mechanisms Through a Mindfulness-Based Intervention
T2 - Advances Within the Field of Developmental Neuroscience
AU - Tang, Yi Yuan
AU - Yang, Lizhu
AU - Leve, Leslie D.
AU - Harold, Gordon T.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - Poor executive function (EF) has been associated with a host of short- and long-term problems across the lifespan, including elevated rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression, drug abuse, and antisocial behavior. Mindfulness-based interventions that focus on increasing awareness of one's thoughts, emotions, and actions have been shown to improve specific aspects of EF, including attention, cognitive control, and emotion regulation. Reflecting a developmental neuroscience perspective, this article reviews research relevant to one specific mindfulness-based intervention, integrative body-mind training (IBMT). Randomized controlled trials of IBMT indicate improvements in specific EF components, and uniquely highlight the role of neural circuitry specific to the anterior cingulate cortex and the autonomic nervous system as two brain-based mechanisms that underlie IBMT-related improvements. The relevance of improving specific dimensions of EF through short-term IBMT to prevent a cascade of risk behaviors for children and adolescents is described and future research directions are proposed.
AB - Poor executive function (EF) has been associated with a host of short- and long-term problems across the lifespan, including elevated rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression, drug abuse, and antisocial behavior. Mindfulness-based interventions that focus on increasing awareness of one's thoughts, emotions, and actions have been shown to improve specific aspects of EF, including attention, cognitive control, and emotion regulation. Reflecting a developmental neuroscience perspective, this article reviews research relevant to one specific mindfulness-based intervention, integrative body-mind training (IBMT). Randomized controlled trials of IBMT indicate improvements in specific EF components, and uniquely highlight the role of neural circuitry specific to the anterior cingulate cortex and the autonomic nervous system as two brain-based mechanisms that underlie IBMT-related improvements. The relevance of improving specific dimensions of EF through short-term IBMT to prevent a cascade of risk behaviors for children and adolescents is described and future research directions are proposed.
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Childhood
KW - Executive function
KW - Integrative body-mind training
KW - Mindfulness-based interventions
KW - Randomized clinical trial
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84866007269&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2012.00250.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2012.00250.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84866007269
VL - 6
SP - 361
EP - 366
JO - Child Development Perspectives
JF - Child Development Perspectives
SN - 1750-8592
IS - 4
ER -