The End of Alzheimer’s Program – Dale E. Bredesen, M.D. References

Following is a list of references from the book, The End of Alzheimer’s Program, published by Avery/Random House. Due to the length of the text, these references could not be included in the print version, and therefore are listed below. 

9 – Madhav Goyal et al., JAMA Internal Medicine 174, no. 3, 357–68, January 2014

Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

9 – David W. Orme-Johnson and Vernon A. Barnes, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 19, no. 10, 330–41, October 2013

Effects of the Transcendental Meditation Technique on Trait Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

9 – Felipe A. Jain et al., Psychosomatics 56, no. 2, 140–52, October 2014

Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of Meditation Therapies for Acute and Subacute Phase Treatment of Depressive Disorders: A Systematic Review

10 – Eshvendar Reddy Kasala et al., Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice 20, no. 1, 74–80, January 2013

Effect of Meditation on Neurophysiological Changes in Stress Mediated Depression

11 – Tim Gard, Britta Holzel, and Sara W. Lazar, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1307, no. 1, 89–103, February 2014

The Potential Effects of Meditation on Age-Related Cognitive Decline: A Systematic Review

11 – Dharma Singh Khalsa, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease 48, no. 1, 1–12, October 2015

Stress, Meditation, and Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention: Where the Evidence Stands

11 – Sara N. Gallant, Consciousness and Cognition 40, 116–30, February 2016

Mindfulness Meditation Practice and Executive Functioning: Breaking Down the Benefit

11 – Elisa H. Kozasa et al., NeuroImage 59, no. 1, 745–49, January 2012

Meditation Training Increases Brain Efficiency in an Attention Task

12 – Yi-Yuan Tang et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107, no. 35, 15649–52, August 2010

Short-Term Meditation Induces White Matter Changes in the Anterior Cingulate

12 – Sara W. Lazar et al., Neuroreport 16, no. 17, 1893–97, November 2005

Meditation Experience Is Associated with Increased Cortical Thickness