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Participants

The study is designed to see the effects mindfulness techniques has on the brain compared to others who does not use the techniques. The study being conducted on the neural effects of mindfulness techniques will require 40 participants from a school in large school district. The study will look for children ages 6 to 10 years old. The focus of the study is to determine how mindfulness techniques can alter the brain function through meditation. The students will be assigned to two random groups with a mixture of ages, intervention and the control group. The study will be an 8-week course. The control group will not be using the mindfulness techniques during the 8-week trial but will given use of the techniques after the trial is over to ensure fairness to all participants.

Procedure

Once candidates are identified and enrolled in the 8-week trial a research assistant will sit with the child and parent to go over the questionnaire used to assess the child’s cognitive development. Each session will be given to the participant at home for twenty minutes for three days out of the week which will be chosen by the participants and their parents. A functional magnetic resonance imaging will be used to take pictures and record the activity of the brain at each session. The scans of the fMRI will detect changes in the brain activity of the participants.

Hypothesis/Analysis

The goal of this study is to evaluate how mindfulness techniques impacts the neural activity of elementary students. At the completion of the 8-week trial period the intervention group should show a reduction in stress that also correlated with decreased gray matter density in the amygdala which is known to play an important role in stress and anxiety (Labier, D, 2015).

Budget Justification

Funding will be needed for two half time research assistants to be responsible for data collection, recruitment and training. Additional funding will be needed for travel expenses for research assistant to travel to and from participant’s home. Each participant will be paid the amount of $75 to reimburse for the participants times. Funding is needed for the purchase of an Apple laptop computer for data collection and analysis. Additional funding will be needed for office supplies.

References

Labier, D. (2015). Retrieved from www.psychologytoday.com

Appendix A

Principal Investigator: Instructor B. Jones, PhD

Grant Title:

Neural Effects of Mindfulness Techniques

Period of Performance: 9/1/15 - 8/31/16

11/1/18-12/28/18

Funds Requested

Salaries

Full Time Faculty Annual Salary

$ 99,000

Percentage of effort

10%

Number of Weeks

Full Time A/P (10% time 12 Mo)

$ 6,600

Full Time Graduate Assistant Annual

$ 32,000

Percentage of effort

50%

Number of Weeks

Graduate Assistant (50% time, 12 months)

$ 10,667

Total Salaries

$ 17,267

Equipment

$ -

Travel

Travel for PI to one meeting to present results

$ 1,500

Travel for research assistant to particpants homes

$ 1,000

Total Travel Costs

$ 2,500

Participants

number of subjects:

payment per subject:

$75

Total Participant Cost

$ 3,000

Supplies

Computer

$ 2,899

Office supplies (postage, paper, etc)

$ 700

Total Supplies

$ 3,599

Total Direct Costs

$ 26,366

37.5%

Indirect Costs*

9,887

Total Funds Requested

$ 36,253

Proposed Study

Participants

The study is designed to see the effects mindfulness techniques has on the brain

compared to others who does not use the techniques. The study being conducted on the neural

effects of mindfulness techniques will require 40 p

articipants from a school in large

school

district. The study will look for children ages 6 to 10 years old. The focus of the study is to

determine how mindfulness techniques can alter the brain function through meditation. The

students will be assigned to

two random groups with a mixture of ages, intervention and the

control group. The study will be an 8

week course. The control group will not be using the

mindfulness techniques during the 8

week trial but will given use of the techniques after the

trial

is over to ensure fairness to all participants.

Procedure

Once candidates are identified and enrolled in the 8

week trial a research assistant will

sit with the child and parent to go over the questionnaire used to assess the child’s cognitive

development

. Each session will be given to the participant at home for twenty minutes for

three days out of the week which will be chosen by the participants and their parents.

functional

magnetic resonance imaging will be used to take pictures and record the activ

ity of

the brain at each session. The scans of the fMRI will detect changes in the brain activity of the

participants.

Hypothesis/Analysis

Proposed Study

Participants

The study is designed to see the effects mindfulness techniques has on the brain

compared to others who does not use the techniques. The study being conducted on the neural

effects of mindfulness techniques will require 40 participants from a school in large school

district. The study will look for children ages 6 to 10 years old. The focus of the study is to

determine how mindfulness techniques can alter the brain function through meditation. The

students will be assigned to two random groups with a mixture of ages, intervention and the

control group. The study will be an 8-week course. The control group will not be using the

mindfulness techniques during the 8-week trial but will given use of the techniques after the

trial is over to ensure fairness to all participants.

Procedure

Once candidates are identified and enrolled in the 8-week trial a research assistant will

sit with the child and parent to go over the questionnaire used to assess the child’s cognitive

development. Each session will be given to the participant at home for twenty minutes for

three days out of the week which will be chosen by the participants and their parents. A

functional magnetic resonance imaging will be used to take pictures and record the activity of

the brain at each session. The scans of the fMRI will detect changes in the brain activity of the

participants.

Hypothesis/Analysis