Clinical trialNCT01428674CompletedInterventional

Time, Touch, Attention and the Autonomic Nervous System

SponsorWake Forest UniversityEnrollment20Stress

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Summary

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The purpose of this study is to describe the onset, duration and dose-response of interpersonal mindful compassion on respiratory rate and heart rate variability in healthy adults in order to prepare for research evaluating the impact of this intervention in patient populations and to prepare for basic research investigating the CNS mechanisms for observed effects. Previous research has found that mindfulness meditation, including mindful compassion, results in autonomic changes in the practitioner. Emerging neuroscience of dyadic interactions suggests that through the effects of mirror neuron isopraxis, one person's physiologic state may be mirrored by another. However, no research has directly evaluated the impact of one person's mindful compassion on another person's autonomic activity. This study paves the way for an entirely new avenue of research inquiry.

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Investigators

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Kathi J Kemper, MD
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Principal Investigator
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Drugs studied

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Registration & key dates

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Start: 28 Feb 2011
Primary completion: 30 Jun 2011
Completion: 30 Jun 2011
Last update posted: 15 Aug 2018
Registered enrollment: 20
Registry id: NCT01428674

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