Treatment for Depression: Mindfulness Therapy is Still Unproven Because of Flimsy Research

Noted: “There is quite a bit of discussion about mindfulness and mindfulness research these days,” Simon Goldberg told Newsweek. Goldberg is one of the authors of the PLoS One paper and conducted the study while a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds. (He’s since received his doctorate.) “Our hope ultimately is that the results from our study can help encourage researchers to implement some of these recommended practices in future studies.”