Robert H Schneider
Biographic Data
| ID | 6359673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert H Schneider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert H |
| FAMILY NAME | Schneider |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNEIDER R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maharishi International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6834-7532 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Peace through health
In the midst of global armed conflicts, notably the Israel-Hamas and Ukraine-Russia wars, there is an urgent need for innovative public health strategies in peacebuilding. The devastating impact of wars, including mortality, injury, disease, and the diversion of healthcare resources, necessitates effective and durable interventions. This perspective aligns with WHO recommendations and examines the role of evidence-based meditation from Ayurveda a…
Stress Reduction in the Prevention of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
Background: African Americans have disproportionately high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an independent risk factor for CVD and may contribute to this disparity. Psychological stress contributes to LVH in African Americans and other populations.Objective: This study evaluated the effects of stress reduction with the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique on preventing LVH in African American adu…
Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease Part 3
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death in the United States today and a major contributor to total health care costs. Psychosocial stress has been implicated in CVD, and psychosocial approaches to primary and secondary prevention are gaining research support. This third article in the series on psychosocial stress and CVD continues the evaluation of one such approach, the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation program, a psy…
Avignon Theatre Festival Strike (review)
The fifty-seventh Avignon Festival was killed off by a combination of employer greed, union brinksmanship, procedural bad faith, and governmental bad timing. Ariane Mnouchkine's latest production with the Théâtre du Soleil, The Last Caravanseral (Odyssey), did not play, nor did any of the other thirty-five productions invited from France, Poland, Italy, and Belgium. Months of rehearsal and preparation were lost; France's summer theatrical showpla…
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the Aging with a Traditional System of Natural Medicine
The authors conclude that this set of innovative strategies may help society achieve recommended health objectives for disease prevention and health promotion in older adults and that widespread implementation of this self-empowering, prevention-oriented approach in the elderly is feasible, cost effective, and timely
Behavioral Treatment of Hypertensive Heart Disease in African Americans
African Americans experience higher morbidity and mortality than Whites do as a result of hypertension and associated cardiovascular disease. Chronic psychosocial stress has been considered an important contributing factor to these high rates. The authors describe the rationale and design for a planned randomized controlled trial comparing Transcendental Meditation, a stress-reduction technique, with lifestyle education in the treatment of hypert…
Lower Lipid Peroxide Levels in Practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation[registered sign] Program
OBJECTIVE: Oxidative stress or free radical activity may contribute to the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and other chronic diseases associated with aging. Because psychosocial stress has been shown to increase oxidative stress, we conducted an exploratory study to investigate the effects of stress reduction with the Transcendental Meditation program on serum lipid peroxide levels in elderly subjects. METHOD: Forty-one normally healthy subjec…
Anger Expression Correlates With Platelet Aggregation
Potential relationships between increased platelet aggregability and such psychological characteristics as hostility and anger were investigated as part of a larger intervention study investigating the potential efficacy of stress-reduction treatments. Participants performed 6-minute mental arithmetic tests under time pressure. Blood was sampled during the first minute of the task and whole blood platelet aggregation was measured in an aggregomet…
Alfred Kazin
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and laboratory reactivity in type A behavior and components
Type A coronary-prone behavior has been characterized previously by cardiovascular hyperreactivity to laboratory stressors. The objectives of this study were: 1) to determine whether cardiovascular patterns under more naturalistic circumstances in the field were altered in Type A subjects, and 2) to determine whether these field patterns paralleled cardiovascular patterns to a series of stressors in the laboratory. Thirty-three healthy Type A and…
New markers for type A behavior
This study tested the hypothesis that the Type A behavior pattern and its components are associated with increased activity of the sympathetic nervous system. To do this, we employed two new markers of sympathetic tone--pupil size and platelet catecholamine content. Thirty-three healthy males were blindly rated for Type A behavior and verbal stylistic components by Structured Interview. Adrenergic tone to the pupils was assessed from pupil diamet…
Anger and anxiety in borderline hypertension
Psychologic studies of hypertension have usually focused on the relationship of anger and anxiety to clinic or laboratory blood pressure (BP). Yet, average blood pressure outside of the clinic has proven to be a more important predictor of hypertensive complications. In this study, we have isolated two groups of borderline hypertensives--one group that maintained high blood pressure outside of the clinic and another whose average BP returned to n…
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the Aging with a Traditional System of Natural Medicine
The authors conclude that this set of innovative strategies may help society achieve recommended health objectives for disease prevention and health promotion in older adults and that widespread implementation of this self-empowering, prevention-oriented approach in the elderly is feasible, cost effective, and timely
Anger and anxiety in borderline hypertension
Psychologic studies of hypertension have usually focused on the relationship of anger and anxiety to clinic or laboratory blood pressure (BP). Yet, average blood pressure outside of the clinic has proven to be a more important predictor of hypertensive complications. In this study, we have isolated two groups of borderline hypertensives--one group that maintained high blood pressure outside of the clinic and another whose average BP returned to n…
New markers for type A behavior
This study tested the hypothesis that the Type A behavior pattern and its components are associated with increased activity of the sympathetic nervous system. To do this, we employed two new markers of sympathetic tone--pupil size and platelet catecholamine content. Thirty-three healthy males were blindly rated for Type A behavior and verbal stylistic components by Structured Interview. Adrenergic tone to the pupils was assessed from pupil diamet…
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and laboratory reactivity in type A behavior and components
Type A coronary-prone behavior has been characterized previously by cardiovascular hyperreactivity to laboratory stressors. The objectives of this study were: 1) to determine whether cardiovascular patterns under more naturalistic circumstances in the field were altered in Type A subjects, and 2) to determine whether these field patterns paralleled cardiovascular patterns to a series of stressors in the laboratory. Thirty-three healthy Type A and…
Alfred Kazin
Anger Expression Correlates With Platelet Aggregation
Potential relationships between increased platelet aggregability and such psychological characteristics as hostility and anger were investigated as part of a larger intervention study investigating the potential efficacy of stress-reduction treatments. Participants performed 6-minute mental arithmetic tests under time pressure. Blood was sampled during the first minute of the task and whole blood platelet aggregation was measured in an aggregomet…
Lower Lipid Peroxide Levels in Practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation[registered sign] Program
OBJECTIVE: Oxidative stress or free radical activity may contribute to the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and other chronic diseases associated with aging. Because psychosocial stress has been shown to increase oxidative stress, we conducted an exploratory study to investigate the effects of stress reduction with the Transcendental Meditation program on serum lipid peroxide levels in elderly subjects. METHOD: Forty-one normally healthy subjec…
Behavioral Treatment of Hypertensive Heart Disease in African Americans
African Americans experience higher morbidity and mortality than Whites do as a result of hypertension and associated cardiovascular disease. Chronic psychosocial stress has been considered an important contributing factor to these high rates. The authors describe the rationale and design for a planned randomized controlled trial comparing Transcendental Meditation, a stress-reduction technique, with lifestyle education in the treatment of hypert…
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the Aging with a Traditional System of Natural Medicine
The authors conclude that this set of innovative strategies may help society achieve recommended health objectives for disease prevention and health promotion in older adults and that widespread implementation of this self-empowering, prevention-oriented approach in the elderly is feasible, cost effective, and timely
Avignon Theatre Festival Strike (review)
The fifty-seventh Avignon Festival was killed off by a combination of employer greed, union brinksmanship, procedural bad faith, and governmental bad timing. Ariane Mnouchkine's latest production with the Théâtre du Soleil, The Last Caravanseral (Odyssey), did not play, nor did any of the other thirty-five productions invited from France, Poland, Italy, and Belgium. Months of rehearsal and preparation were lost; France's summer theatrical showpla…
Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease Part 3
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death in the United States today and a major contributor to total health care costs. Psychosocial stress has been implicated in CVD, and psychosocial approaches to primary and secondary prevention are gaining research support. This third article in the series on psychosocial stress and CVD continues the evaluation of one such approach, the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation program, a psy…
Stress Reduction in the Prevention of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
Background: African Americans have disproportionately high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an independent risk factor for CVD and may contribute to this disparity. Psychological stress contributes to LVH in African Americans and other populations.Objective: This study evaluated the effects of stress reduction with the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique on preventing LVH in African American adu…
Peace through health
In the midst of global armed conflicts, notably the Israel-Hamas and Ukraine-Russia wars, there is an urgent need for innovative public health strategies in peacebuilding. The devastating impact of wars, including mortality, injury, disease, and the diversion of healthcare resources, necessitates effective and durable interventions. This perspective aligns with WHO recommendations and examines the role of evidence-based meditation from Ayurveda a…
Medicine (10 works) · Internal Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Meditation (5 works) · Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (5 works) · Transcendental meditation (5 works) · Blood pressure (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (4 works) · Physical therapy (4 works)