Tag Archives: Oxford University

meditation and mindfulness

MBCT courses are proliferating across the UK – but research in the US found some who practised some types of Buddhist meditation were assailed by traumatic memories and impairment in social relationships. Photograph: Luis Alvarez/Getty Images/Vetta In a first floor room above a gridlocked London street, 20 strangers shuffle on to mats and cushions. There’s […]

Ketamine tested as severe depression treatment

10 April, 2014 “The illegal party drug ketamine is an ‘exciting’ and ‘dramatic’ new treatment for depression,” BBC News reports. A small study found that some people with severe depression responded well to the drug.   The study involved people with severe depression (including people with depression as part of bipolar disorder) who had failed […]