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Evidence suggests Meditation mayincreaseMemory.
5 studies (5 claims)
Emerging evidence
Study Claims
| Intervention | Direction | Endpoint | Type | Population | Dosage | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mindfulness meditation intervention | Decreases - showed improvement | Revised Memory and Behavior Problems Checklist (RMBPC) | Human | community-dwelling caregivers aged 45-85 years of close relatives with dementia | One 90-minute session per week for 7 weeks, plus at-home implementation. | Pilot controlled trial of mindfulness meditation and education for dementia caregivers.cited 122× |
| meditation techniques | Increases - help improve | memory | Human | patients with neurodegenerative diseases | Not specified | Meditation and neurodegenerative diseases.cited 29× |
| Goal Management Training+Mindfulness Meditation (GMT+MM) | Increases - was superior to control in improving | basic measures of working memory (Letter-number sequencing) | Human | polysubstance users in residential treatment | Not specified | Goal Management Training and Mindfulness Meditation improve executive functions and transfer to ecological tasks of daily life in polysubstance users enrolled in therapeutic community treatment.cited 44× |
| Meditation | Increases - reporting encouraging results in a large panel of cognitive functions, such as: attention, executive functions and memory | attention, executive functions and memory | Human | old participants | Not specified | Meditation and successful aging: can meditative practices counteract age-related cognitive decline?cited 8× |
| mindfulness meditation | Increases - showed significant improvements | working memory capacity | Human | adolescents | Not specified | A Randomized Controlled Trial Examining the Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Working Memory Capacity in Adolescents.cited 68× |