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. 

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

12 – Eileen Luders, Nicolas Cherbuin, and Florian Kurth, Frontiers in Psychology 5, 1551, January 2015

Forever Young(er): Potential Age-Defying Effects of Long-Term Meditation on Gray Matter Atrophy

12 – Britta K. Hölzel et al., Psychiatry Research 191, no. 1, 36–43, January 2011

Mindfulness Practice Leads to Increases in Regional Brain Gray Matter Density

13 – J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed November 30, 2019

Transcendental Meditation

14 – Jane K. Ferguson, Eleanor W. Willemsen, and MayLynn V. Castañeto, Pastoral Psychology 59, no. 3, 305–29, June 2010

Centering Prayer as a Healing Response to Everyday Stress: A Psychological and Spiritual Process

14 – Murray Levine, Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy 15, no. 2, 80–98, 2008

Prayer as Coping: A Psychological Analysis