We describe an experiment to determine the effects of meditation training on the multitasking behavior of knowledge workers. Three groups each of 12-15 human resources personnel were tested: (1) those who underwent an 8-week training course on mindfulness-based meditation, (2) those who endured a wait period, were tested, and then underwent the same 8-week training, and (3) those who had 8-week...

Twenty-four females meeting the DSM-III criteria for agoraphobia with panic attacks underwent partner-assisted exposure therapy followed by either Couples Relaxation Training or Couples Communication Skills Training. Posttest results indicated an advantage in favor of communications training. Subjects in this condition reported significantly lower scores on the agoraphobia subscale of the Fear ...

Background Infertility and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of which during assisted reproduction technologies (ART) make discomfort and anxiety for infertile couples. Several studies have demonstrated that infertility treatment procedures, particularly during ovulation induction period, lead to high levels of distress and anxiety in infertile women. The aim of this study was to evaluate t...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether exercise training alters vasomotor reactivity of rat coronary arteries. In vitro isometric microvessel techniques were used to evaluate vasomotor properties of proximal left anterior artery rings (1 ring per animal) from exercise-trained rats (ET; n = 10) subjected to a 12-wk treadmill training protocol (32 m/min, 15% incline, 1 h/day, 5 days/w...

We introduce a new large margin approach to discriminative training of intractable discrete graphical models. Our approach builds on a convex quadratic programming relaxation of the MAP inference problem. The model parameters are trained directly within this restricted class of energy functions so as to optimize the predictions on the training data. We address the issue of how to parameterize t...

OBJECTIVE Mental health issues like anxiety and depression and other adverse events often accompany chemotherapy for breast cancer and can result in reduced quality of life for patients. The present study was aimed to determine whether relaxation training intervention reduces anxiety and other adverse reactions during chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer. METHODS Using a prospective, r...