Research Psychosomatic Medicine · 2003
Davidson et al. — Brain and Immune Function
A randomised trial of mindfulness training with EEG asymmetry and antibody response after influenza vaccine. Famous. Still not a consumer audio claim.
Richard J. Davidson, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and colleagues reported alterations in brain and immune function after mindfulness training in a workplace randomised design, including antibody titers after flu vaccine.
Who, where, when
Wisconsin / UMASS mindfulness collaboration. PMID 12883106.
What the work actually did
Training versus control, EEG measures (including anterior asymmetry), immune outcome after vaccination. A bridge between contemplative practice and psychoneuroimmunology as it stood in 2003.
What it does not prove
Effect sizes, replication, and the jump from “workplace MBSR” to “beats boost immunity” are not licensed by this paper. Do not make that jump.
How to use this page
The paper is a reminder that trained attention has physiology. It is not a license for medical audio.
Related
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