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Complementary Integrative Rehabilitation Medicine
Brain Injury
Neuroplasticity (includes neuroscience)
Yi-Yuan Tang, PhD
Presidential Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, Professor of Psychological Sciences/Internal Medicine
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
Ariana Vora, MD
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School Dept of PM&R
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Research has shown that mindfulness meditation induces brain functional and structural changes (neuroplasticity) associated with attention, self-control, emotion regulation, and social functioning. This talk will first summarize the latest findings of mindfulness 
meditation in stress reduction, improved attention, self-control, and brain plasticity in cognitive, emotional, and sensory-motor areas; then the talk will explore how mindfulness meditation induces neuroplasticity and the above-mentioned functions; at last, the talk will discuss clinical applications of mindfulness meditation in neurorehabilitation.
