Recruiting

Meditation

Sponsor:

Balachundhar Subramaniam

Code:

NCT07546786

Conditions

Cognitive Function and Affective Regulation

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Study Details

Brief summary:

This is a prospective cohort study with 52 meditators and 52 controls. These groups will be contacted at a singular timepoint, during which they will take surveys and cognitive tests, which will be used to assess cognitive and emotional outcomes. The meditator group will be recruited from a pool of healthy individuals who have learned meditation practices such as those taught by the Isha Foundation (e.g., Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya, Shoonya, Samyama breath-watching, etc.) Meditation-naïve individuals will be recruited into the control group.

Conditions

Cognitive Function and Affective Regulation

Study ID

NCT07546786

Start date

Feb 9, 2024

Status verified date

Apr, 2026

Completion date

Dec 31, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul 31, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Participants must be able to read and understand English.
  • Meditators: Participants must regularly practice meditation (4 or more times per week).
  • Controls: Participants must not regularly practice meditation (4 or more times per week)

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Below the age of 18.
  • Participants not living in the US.

Study Design

Enrollment

104 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

Meditators

Participants who regularly practice meditation (4 or more times per week)

Controls

Participants who do not regularly practice meditation (4 or more times per week)

Primary outcome measure

  • Multi-Source Interference Task (MSIT) [ Time Frame: within one week of consent ]
  • N-back Task [ Time Frame: within one week of consent ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Balachundhar Subramaniam, MD MPH

(781) 472-0572bsubrama@bidmc.harvard.edu

Locations

BIDMC

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215

More Information

Sponsor

Balachundhar Subramaniam

Last update posted

Apr 23, 2026

Last verified

Apr, 2026

Keywords

  • Cognitive Function

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Balachundhar Subramaniam on 2026-04-23.