The David Lynch Foundation will host a Sept. 30 webinar during which a panel of physicians and scientists will discuss the benefits that ADHD students can experience from a simple meditation.

A Sept. 16 article on The Medical News website provided the following details:

The webinar, which comes on the final day of National ADHD Public Awareness Month, will report on published research on the effects of the Transcendental Meditation technique for improving academic achievement and executive brain function while reducing learning disorders, anxiety, depression, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and heart disease.

One recent study, published in the January 2009 issue of the peer-reviewed Current Issues in Education, followed a group of 10 middle school students with ADHD who were practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique twice a day in school. After three months, researchers found over 50 percent reduction in stress and anxiety, and improvements in ADHD symptoms.

"The effect was much greater than we expected," said Sarina J. Grosswald, Ed.D., a George Washington University-trained cognitive learning specialist and lead researcher on the study. "The children also showed improvements in attention, working memory, organization, and behavior regulation."

Conference panelists will include Sarina Grosswalk, Ed.D and William Stixrud, Ph.D. of George Washington University, and Norman Rosenthal, M.D. of the National Institute of Mental Health.

The webinar is scheduled to begin at noon (ET) on www.adhd-tm.org.

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