Toward a Unified View of Cognitive and Biochemical Activity: Meditation and Linguistic Self-Reconstructing May Lead to Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Improvement
Stress appears to be the basis of many diseases, especially myocardial infarction. Events are not objectively “stressful” but what is central is how the individual structures the experience he is facing: the thoughts he produces about an event put him under stress. This cognitive process could be re...
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| author | Carlo Dal Lin Laura Brugnolo Mariela Marinova Mario Plebani Sabino Iliceto Francesco Tona Giuseppe Vitiello |
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| description | Stress appears to be the basis of many diseases, especially myocardial infarction. Events are not objectively “stressful” but what is central is how the individual structures the experience he is facing: the thoughts he produces about an event put him under stress. This cognitive process could be revealed by language (words and structure). We followed 90 patients with ischemic heart disease and 30 healthy volunteers, after having taught them the Relaxation Response (RR) as part of a 4-day Rational–Emotional–Education intervention. We analyzed with the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software the words that the subjects used across the study following the progression of blood galectin-3 (inflammation marker) and malondialdehyde (oxidative stress marker). During the follow-up, we confirmed an acute and chronic decrease in the markers of inflammation and oxidative stress already highlighted in our previous studies together with a significant change in the use of language by the subjects of the RR groups. Our results and the precise design of our study would seem to suggest the existence of an intimate relationship and regulatory action by cognitive processes (recognizable by the type of language used) on some molecular processes in the human body. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-77fa1a7954ee48868d961a8e12d5deb92023-11-20T08:04:07ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002020-07-0122881810.3390/e22080818Toward a Unified View of Cognitive and Biochemical Activity: Meditation and Linguistic Self-Reconstructing May Lead to Inflammation and Oxidative Stress ImprovementCarlo Dal Lin0Laura Brugnolo1Mariela Marinova2Mario Plebani3Sabino Iliceto4Francesco Tona5Giuseppe Vitiello6Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Padua University Medical School, Via Giustiniani 2, 35100 Padua, ItalyDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Padua University Medical School, Via Giustiniani 2, 35100 Padua, ItalyDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Padua University Medical School, Via Giustiniani 2, 35100 Padua, ItalyDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Padua University Medical School, Via Giustiniani 2, 35100 Padua, ItalyDepartment of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Padua University Medical School, Via Giustiniani 2, 35100 Padua, ItalyDepartment of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Padua University Medical School, Via Giustiniani 2, 35100 Padua, ItalyDepartment of Physics “E.R. Caianiello”, Salerno University, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), ItalyStress appears to be the basis of many diseases, especially myocardial infarction. Events are not objectively “stressful” but what is central is how the individual structures the experience he is facing: the thoughts he produces about an event put him under stress. This cognitive process could be revealed by language (words and structure). We followed 90 patients with ischemic heart disease and 30 healthy volunteers, after having taught them the Relaxation Response (RR) as part of a 4-day Rational–Emotional–Education intervention. We analyzed with the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count software the words that the subjects used across the study following the progression of blood galectin-3 (inflammation marker) and malondialdehyde (oxidative stress marker). During the follow-up, we confirmed an acute and chronic decrease in the markers of inflammation and oxidative stress already highlighted in our previous studies together with a significant change in the use of language by the subjects of the RR groups. Our results and the precise design of our study would seem to suggest the existence of an intimate relationship and regulatory action by cognitive processes (recognizable by the type of language used) on some molecular processes in the human body.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/8/818stresscognitionrelaxation responsemeditationdissipative quantum model of brainlanguage |
| spellingShingle | Carlo Dal Lin Laura Brugnolo Mariela Marinova Mario Plebani Sabino Iliceto Francesco Tona Giuseppe Vitiello Toward a Unified View of Cognitive and Biochemical Activity: Meditation and Linguistic Self-Reconstructing May Lead to Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Improvement Entropy stress cognition relaxation response meditation dissipative quantum model of brain language |
| title | Toward a Unified View of Cognitive and Biochemical Activity: Meditation and Linguistic Self-Reconstructing May Lead to Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Improvement |
| title_full | Toward a Unified View of Cognitive and Biochemical Activity: Meditation and Linguistic Self-Reconstructing May Lead to Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Improvement |
| title_fullStr | Toward a Unified View of Cognitive and Biochemical Activity: Meditation and Linguistic Self-Reconstructing May Lead to Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Improvement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toward a Unified View of Cognitive and Biochemical Activity: Meditation and Linguistic Self-Reconstructing May Lead to Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Improvement |
| title_short | Toward a Unified View of Cognitive and Biochemical Activity: Meditation and Linguistic Self-Reconstructing May Lead to Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Improvement |
| title_sort | toward a unified view of cognitive and biochemical activity meditation and linguistic self reconstructing may lead to inflammation and oxidative stress improvement |
| topic | stress cognition relaxation response meditation dissipative quantum model of brain language |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/8/818 |
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