Herbert Benson

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Herbert Benson is affiliated with the following schools: Becker College, Massachusetts General Hospital, Wesleyan University, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Herbert Benson was an American medical doctor, cardiologist, and founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was a professor of mind/body medicine at Harvard Medical School and director emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute at MGH. He was a founding trustee of The American Institute of Stress. He contributed more than 190 scientific publications and 12 books. More than five million copies of his books have been printed in different languages.

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Herbert Benson's Published Works

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The Relaxation Response †. (1974) (2654)
Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness (2005) (1577)
Triggering of acute myocardial infarction onset by episodes of anger. Determinants of Myocardial Infarction Onset Study Investigators. (1995) (711)
A wakeful hypometabolic physiologic state. (1971) (678)
Functional brain mapping of the relaxation response and meditation (2000) (668)
Standardised Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Healthcare: An Overview of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of RCTs (2015) (522)
Health outcomes and a new index of spiritual experience. (1991) (439)
The physiology of meditation. (1972) (411)
The Evaluation of a Mind/Body Intervention to Reduce Psychological Distress and Perceived Stress in College Students (2002) (350)
ACADEMIC STRESS, POWER MOTIVATION, AND DECREASE IN SECRETION RATE OF SALIVARY SECRETORY IMMUNOGLOBULIN A (1983) (348)
Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief (1996) (344)
Chronic psychological effects of exercise and exercise plus cognitive strategies. (1995) (276)
The role of stress in neurodegenerative diseases and mental disorders. (2002) (273)
Reduced sympathetic nervous system responsivity associated with the relaxation response. (1982) (253)
Exaggerated heart rate oscillations during two meditation techniques. (1999) (252)
A Simple Psychophysiologic Technique Which Elicits the Hypometabolic Changes of the Relaxation Response (1974) (251)
Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response (2008) (240)
Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: a multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer. (2006) (238)
Heart rate dynamics during three forms of meditation. (2004) (233)
Decreased blood-pressure in pharmacologically treated hypertensive patients who regularly elicited the relaxation response. (1974) (229)
Aging of modulation of heart rate. (1987) (220)
The Effects of Tai Chi on Depression, Anxiety, and Psychological Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2014) (220)
The Relaxation Response: Psychophysiologic Aspects and Clinical Applications (1975) (214)
The mind/body program for infertility: a new behavioral treatment approach for women with infertility. (1990) (197)
Alleviation of Premenstrual Syndrome Symptoms With the Relaxation Response (1990) (188)
Decreased clinic use by chronic pain patients: response to behavioral medicine intervention. (1991) (173)
Three case reports of the metabolic and electroencephalographic changes during advanced Buddhist meditation techniques. (1990) (168)
Harnessing the power of the placebo effect and renaming it "remembered wellness". (1996) (162)
Decreased blood pressure in borderline hypertensive subjects who practiced meditation. (1974) (159)
A study of the effectiveness of two group behavioral medicine interventions for patients with psychosomatic complaints. (1990) (157)
Stress in cardiovascular diseases. (2002) (153)
The development of a patient-centered program based on the relaxation response: the Relaxation Response Resiliency Program (3RP). (2013) (152)
Beyond the relaxation response (1984) (148)
Behavioral medicine, clinical health psychology, and cost offset. (1995) (140)
The placebo effect and relaxation response: neural processes and their coupling to constitutive nitric oxide (2001) (139)
The use of meditation--relaxation techniques for the management of stress in a working population. (1980) (137)
Relaxation Response Induces Temporal Transcriptome Changes in Energy Metabolism, Insulin Secretion and Inflammatory Pathways (2013) (134)
Use of skin conductance changes during mental stress testing as an index of autonomic arousal in cardiovascular research. (1994) (132)
Mind-body medicine: a model of the comparative clinical impact of the acute stress and relaxation responses. (2009) (125)
INTERACTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND SYSTEMIC ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE: A REVIEW (1971) (124)
Stress-related diseases -- a potential role for nitric oxide. (2002) (120)
DECREASED PREMATURE VENTRICULAR CONTRACTIONS THROUGH USE OF THE RELAXATION RESPONSE IN PATIENTS WITH STABLE ISCHÆMIC HEART-DISEASE (1975) (118)
An Inventory of Positive Psychological Attitudes with potential relevance to health outcomes: validation and preliminary testing. (1991) (111)
Daily relaxation response breaks in a working population: I. Effects on self-reported measures of health, performance, and well-being. (1977) (109)
BIOFEEDBACK AND RELAXATION—RESPONSE TRAINING IN THE TREATMENT OF PEDIATRIC MIGRAINE (1986) (108)
Stress management versus lifestyle modification on systolic hypertension and medication elimination: a randomized trial. (2008) (108)
Treatment of anxiety: a comparison of the usefulness of self-hypnosis and a meditational relaxation technique. An overview. (1978) (106)
Relaxation response-based yoga improves functioning in young children with autism: a pilot study. (2011) (104)
Topographic EEG mapping of the relaxation response (1996) (101)
Psychological improvement in infertile women after behavioral treatment: a replication. (1992) (100)
The relaxation response: its subjective and objective historical precedents and physiology (1983) (99)
Home-based central nervous system assessment of a multifactor behavioral intervention for chronic sleep-onset insomnia* (1993) (96)
Body temperature changes during the practice of g Tum-mo yoga (1982) (91)
Daily relaxation response breaks in a working population: II. Effects on blood pressure. (1977) (91)
Correction: Relaxation Response Induces Temporal Transcriptome Changes in Energy Metabolism, Insulin Secretion and Inflammatory Pathways (2017) (88)
Anxiety Is a Good Indicator for Somatic Symptom Reduction through Behavioral Medicine Intervention in a Mind/Body Medicine Clinic (2001) (83)
The relaxation response: reducing stress and improving cognition in healthy aging adults. (2006) (81)
Relaxation Response and Resiliency Training and Its Effect on Healthcare Resource Utilization (2015) (75)
Association between oxygen consumption and nitric oxide production during the relaxation response. (2005) (71)
Academic performance among middle school students after exposure to a relaxation response curriculum (2000) (71)
Genomic and Clinical Effects Associated with a Relaxation Response Mind-Body Intervention in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2015) (71)
THE USEFULNESS OF THE RELAXATION RESPONSE IN THE THERAPY OF HEADACHE (1974) (69)
The efficacy of the relaxation response in preparing for cardiac surgery. (1989) (68)
Somatization and Symptom Reduction Through a Behavioral Medicine Intervention in a Mind/Body Medicine Clinic (2001) (63)
The Effects of Qigong on Anxiety, Depression, and Psychological Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2013) (63)
The Wellness Book: The Comprehensive Guide to Maintaining Health and Treating Stress-Related Illness (1992) (61)
Decreased VO2 consumption during exercise with elicitation of the relaxation response. (1978) (60)
Modulation of spontaneous breathing via limbic/paralimbic–bulbar circuitry: An event-related fMRI study (2009) (57)
Behavioral induction of arterial hypertension and its reversal. (1969) (57)
Nest Making and Oxytocin Comparably Promote Wound Healing in Isolation Reared Rats (2009) (56)
The nocebo effect: history and physiology. (1997) (54)
Increases in Positive Psychological Characteristics with a New Relaxation-Response Curriculum in High School Students. (1994) (54)
How much stress is too much? (1980) (53)
The role of stress in hypertension. (1979) (53)
P02.117. Genomic expression changes underlying mind-body practices (2012) (53)
Effects of Gender and Marital Status on Somatic Symptoms of Patients Attending a Mind/Body Medicine Clinic (2001) (52)
Systemic Hypertension and the Relaxation Response (1977) (51)
Tai Chi Treatment for Depression in Chinese Americans: A Pilot Study (2012) (48)
The relaxation response: history, physiological basis and clinical usefulness. (2009) (48)
The relaxation response: a bridge between psychiatry and medicine. (1977) (48)
Relaxation response in femoral angiography. (1990) (47)
Effects of complementary therapies on clinical outcomes in patients being treated with radiation therapy for prostate cancer (2010) (46)
Relaxation response and spirituality: Pathways to improve psychological outcomes in cardiac rehabilitation. (2010) (45)
Multifactor Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Sleep-Onset Insomnia Using Stimulus Control and the Relaxation Response (1993) (45)
Exploring the effectiveness of a comprehensive mind-body intervention for medical symptom relief. (2010) (45)
Endocannabinoids as autoregulatory signaling molecules: coupling to nitric oxide and a possible association with the relaxation response. (2003) (45)
The effect of meditative movement on sleep quality: A systematic review. (2016) (43)
The impact of music on hypermetabolism in critical illness (2008) (42)
Perceived benefits in a behavioral-medicine insomnia program: a clinical report. (1996) (42)
Disorders of arousal and the relaxation response: speculations on the nature and treatment of stress-related diseases. (1989) (41)
The relaxation response and hypnosis (1981) (38)
Increased autonomic responses to neutral and emotional stimuli in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. (1981) (38)
A New Era for Mind-Body Medicine. (2020) (38)
Historical and clinical considerations of the relaxation response. (1977) (38)
The Feasibility and Impact of Delivering a Mind-Body Intervention in a Virtual World (2012) (38)
Continuous measurement of O2 consumption and CO2 elimination during a wakeful hypometabolic state. (1975) (35)
Social status, physical activity, and coronary proneness. (1966) (34)
Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP): study design and research methods. (2002) (34)
The presence of antibacterial and opioid peptides in human plasma during coronary artery bypass surgery (2000) (34)
The relaxation response: therapeutic effect. (1997) (34)
Psychobiological changes from relaxation response elicitation: long-term practitioners vs. novices. (2011) (33)
Body temperature changes during the practice of g Tum-mo yoga (1982) (33)
A Model for Integrating a Mind/Body Approach to Cardiac Rehabilitation: OUTCOMES AND CORRELATORS (2009) (31)
Nonpharmacologic treatment of hypertension: a multiple-risk-factor approach. (1987) (30)
The preoperative use of the relaxation response with ambulatory surgery patients. (1987) (29)
The Relaxation Response: Therapeutic Effect (1997) (27)
A Pilot, Randomized Controlled Study of Tai Chi With Passive and Active Controls in the Treatment of Depressed Chinese Americans. (2017) (26)
Decreased clinic utilization by chronic pain patients after behavioral medicine intervention (1991) (25)
The efficacy of progressive relaxation in systematic desensitization and a proposal for an alternative competitive response--the relaxation response. (1977) (25)
PHYSIOLOGIC CORRELATES OF MEDITATION AND THEIR CLINICAL EFFECTS IN HEADACHE: AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION (1973) (22)
Depression and Education as Predicting Factors for Completion of a Behavioral Medicine Intervention in a Mind/Body Medicine Clinic (2001) (22)
Nonpharmacologic Intervention for Hypertension: Long-Term Foliow-Up (1989) (20)
Hypotensive effects of chlordiazepoxide, amobarbital and chlorpromazine on behaviorally induced elevated arterial blood pressure in the squirrel monkey. (1970) (18)
Hypnosis and the relaxation response. (1989) (18)
Self-reported health, and illness and the use of conventional and unconventional medicine and mind/body healing by Christian Scientists and others. (1999) (17)
The Treatment of Depressed Chinese Americans Using Qigong in a Health Care Setting: A Pilot Study (2013) (17)
Correction: Relaxation Response and Resiliency Training and Its Effect on Healthcare Resource Utilization (2017) (17)
DECREASED ALCOHOL INTAKE ASSOCIATED WITH THE PRACTICE OF MEDITATION: A RETROSPECTIVE INVESTIGATION * (1974) (16)
The effectiveness of a comprehensive mind body weight loss intervention for overweight and obese adults: a pilot study. (2013) (15)
Behavioral medicine, complementary medicine and integrated care. Economic implications. (1997) (15)
Specific Transcriptome Changes Associated with Blood Pressure Reduction in Hypertensive Patients After Relaxation Response Training (2018) (15)
The preoperative use of the relaxation response with ambulatory surgery patients. (1987) (14)
The relaxation response: Use with cardiac patients. (1996) (14)
The relaxation response: your inborn capacity to counteract the harmful effects of stress. (1981) (13)
Stress and dental caries in the rat (1980) (12)
Environmental enrichment with nesting material accelerates wound healing in isolation-reared rats (2012) (12)
The Relaxation Response Resiliency Enhancement Program in the Management of Chronic Refractory Temporomandibular Joint Disorder: Results from a Pilot Study (2013) (12)
Stress and hypertension: interrelations and management. (1978) (12)
Behavioral medicine : work, stress, and health (1985) (11)
Reduced pupillary sensitivity to topical phenylephrine associated with the relaxation response. (1986) (10)
Behaviorally induced hypertension in the squirrel monkey. (1970) (10)
Relaxation therapy in the control of blood pressure. (1987) (10)
Decreased Drug Abuse with Transcendental Meditation—A Study of 1,862 Subjects* (2017) (9)
The effectiveness of a community-based, mind-body group for symptoms of depression and anxiety. (2014) (9)
Effectiveness of the Relaxation Response-Based Group Intervention for Treating Depressed Chinese American Immigrants: A Pilot Study (2014) (9)
A Comprehensive Resiliency Framework: Theoretical Model, Treatment, and Evaluation (2021) (9)
World Congress Integrative Medicine & Health 2017: part two (2017) (9)
Are you working too hard? A conversation with mind/body researcher Herbert Benson. (2005) (8)
A rebuttal to the conclusions of David S. Holmes's article: "Meditation and somatic arousal reduction." (1985) (8)
The Role of Relaxation in Behavioral Therapies for Chronic Pain (1983) (8)
Psychosocial effects of the relaxation response resiliency program (SMART-3RP) in patients with MGUS and smoldering multiple myeloma: A waitlist controlled randomized clinical trial. (2017) (6)
On the practicability of submaximal exercise testing. (1966) (6)
Commentary: self-care, the three-legged stool, and remembered wellness. (1996) (6)
The Effectiveness of a Brief Mind-Body Intervention for Treating Depression in Community Health Center Patients (2015) (5)
UNCONVENTIONAL MEDICINE. AUTHORS REPLY (1993) (5)
Human Interconnectedness : Research Indications (2001) (5)
The Relaxation Response and Cardiovascular Disorders (1984) (4)
Nonpharmacologic approaches to the treatment of hypertension. (1987) (4)
Teacher-led relaxation response curriculum in an urban high school: impact on student behavioral health and classroom environment. (2015) (4)
Meditation and the Relaxation Response (2001) (4)
Metabolic Changes During the Prodrome of a Migraine Headache (1978) (3)
Can hypertension be induced by stress? A case discussion. (1977) (3)
Application of Behavioral Medicine Techniques to the Treatment of Infertility (1993) (3)
Low Degree of Formal Education and Musical Experience Predict Degree of Music-Induced Stress Reduction in Relatives and Friends of Patients: A Single-Center, Randomized Controlled Trial (2013) (3)
Behavioral therapies of hypertension: psychotherapy, biofeedback, and relaxation/meditation (1983) (3)
P04.28. Implementing a mind-body medicine relaxation training program in an urban high school: changes in health behaviors, perceived stress, and anxiety (2012) (3)
Nonpharmacologic treatment of hypertension: a review. (1982) (3)
I.PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HYPERTENSION: Behaviorally Induced Hypertension in the Squirrel Monkey (1970) (3)
Behavioral Medicine: A Retrospective and a Look Forward (1994) (2)
Stress, Health, and the Relaxation Response (1985) (2)
Index of Core Spiritual Experiences (INSPIRIT) 1991 (1999) (2)
Correction: Genomic Counter-Stress Changes Induced by the Relaxation Response (2017) (2)
Enhanced signal transduction by adenylate cyclase following elicitation of the relaxation response: Preliminary findings (1990) (2)
PROMOTING NONPHARMACOLOGIC INTERVENTIONS TO TREAT ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE (1998) (2)
Relajación: = (The relaxation response) (1977) (2)
Cognitive Therapy for Hypertension (1994) (2)
Relaxation Response, Physiology, History, and Clinical Applications (1988) (2)
Unconventional medicine. (1993) (1)
ACUTE PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANCES FOLLOWING EXERCISE AND EXERCISE PLUS THE RELAXATION RESPONSE: 897 (1992) (1)
Hypertension and Brain Mechanisms (Progress in Brain Research), Vol. 47 (1978) (1)
EFFECTS OF THE RELAXATION RESPONSE ON SELECTED CARDIORESPIRATORY RESPONSES DURING PHYSICAL EXERCISE (1982) (1)
Task Force 5 : Nonpharmacologic approaches to the treatment of hypertension (2005) (1)
Correction: The Feasibility and Impact of Delivering a Mind-Body Intervention in a Virtual World (2017) (1)
A study of complementary therapies in men receiving radiation therapy for prostate cancer: A randomized feasibility trial (2007) (0)
Sa1914 Impact of a GI Relaxation Response Resiliency Program (RRRP) Upon a Mixed Group of Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2012) (0)
NEL R E VIEW - H AR V A RD R E POR T The role of stress in neurodegenerative diseases and mental disorders (2002) (0)
Indices to assess autonomic arousal in mental stress: Implications for clinical trials (1991) (0)
Psychological and Biological Outcomes: Long-Term Versus Short-Term Relaxation Response Practice (2009) (0)
Chronic Wellness and Spiritual Intelligence - A Researchable Hypothesis (1999) (0)
Correction: Genomic and Clinical Effects Associated with a Relaxation Response Mind-Body Intervention in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2017) (0)
Advanced Metrics for Assessing Holistic Care: The “Epidaurus 2” Project (2018) (0)
Psychophysiology of relaxation phenomena (1989) (0)
Evolution by Degrees (2016) (0)
Genomic Determinants of a Relaxation Response Resiliency Program in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (2011) (0)
The relaxation response. (1974) (0)
How to Elicit the Relaxation Response (1992) (0)
The Relaxation Response and Reduced Norepinephrine Reactivity (1985) (0)
Correction (2016) (0)
DISTRESS OVER THE NONEFFECT OF STRESS. AUTHORS' REPLY (1992) (0)
Distress over the noneffect of stress. (1992) (0)

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