Institute For Prevention Research

Programs: Rct of stress reduction in the secondary prevention of chd in african americansin october, 2009, began a two year nih funded study as part of the american redevelopment and recovery act entitled "rct of stress reduction in the secondary prevention of chd in african americans. " the overall objective of the study is to conduct a randomized controlled trial to determine the efficacy of cardiac rehabilitation with and without a structured, standardized, and validated stress reduction component in the secondary prevention of chd in african americans. 56 subjects will be enrolled. This study is being conducted in collaboration with columbia university. Year 3 activities included irb and informed consent revisions, subject recruitment and data collection. This was a no-cost extension year, needed to complete enrollment.

a randomized controlled trial of meditation compared to exposure therapy and education control on ptsd in veterans: in october, 20012, mumri began a four year department of defense funded study entitled a randomized controlled trial of meditation compared to exposure therapy and education control on ptsd in veterans: this is a randomized controlled trial of 210 veterans with ptsd assigned to one of three arms: transcendental meditation (tm), prolonged exposure (pe), or education control (ec) groups. Testing will be conducted at 0 and 3 months for ptsd symptoms, psychological distress, depression, quality of life, behavioral factors, and physiological/biochemical mechanisms. This research will serve to provide data on the feasibility and efficacy of tm as a standalone therapy for ptsd.

sanskrit lexicon sourcesdigital synthesis and revision funded by the national endowment of the humanities. The project aims to succeed in producing a comprehensive sanskrit lexical resource in incremental stages by utilizing innovative technological methods in an integratedlibrary of texts, linguistic software, and lexical sources. The project integrates existing digitized major sanskrit lexical reference works and extends them by digitizing and integrating subsequently published additions and corrections, specialized dictionaries, indigenous indian monolingual dictionaries, traditional thesauri, and traditional linguistic analysis. Furthermore,the project improves the utility and accessibility of the resources and establishes a web-based framework for continual future revision. The project will be completed june 30, 2014.