Brain Health With Inner Engineering Meditation

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Meditation, Brain; Agenesis

In brief

This study will explore whether a 21-minute meditation practice called Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya leads to changes in brain health and explore how it affects cognitive and physiological function.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05455814

Run by

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

People needed

77

Starts

2023-01-06

Expected to finish

2025-12-17

Last updated by the study team

2026-05-14

Who can join

Age: 20 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Individuals between the ages of 20-65 years.
• Subjects will be required to be able to understand study instructions and provide informed consent.
• Currently residing in Massachusetts.

You may not qualify if…

• Non-English Speaking. (Justification: Meditation and cognitive assessment instruments are not validated in a sufficient range of languages, and the research team lacks polylingual capabilities or the financial resources to hire interpreters for the duration of all proposed assessments.)
• Practicing meditation regularly for the past 6 months (3 or more times per week of practice regularly for the past 6 month).
• History of psychiatric illness such as severe anxiety, severe depression, Schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
• History of any form of cognitive decline or neurological conditions such as dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, brain tumors, brain surgery.
• Current use of cognition enhancing drugs
• Current management for chronic pain.
• History (within the last 5 years) of stroke/aneurysm.
• Active history (within the last 5 years) of alcohol or drug abuse (> 10 drinks per week).
• Current pregnancy or planning to become pregnant in the next 6 months.
• Currently enrolled in another interventional study that could impact the primary outcome, as determined by the PI.
• Educational attainment below high school level or equivalent.
• Significant visual impairment.
• Women of childbearing potential will be included as the intervention and the procedures in the study have minimal risks. There will be no enrollment exclusions based on sex, racial or ethnic factors.
• If a woman becomes pregnant during the course of the study and is willing to stay as a subject, MRI will not be conducted.

Where it is running

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.