Breathe better, think better: new study tests mindfulness against Alzheimer's

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion criteria * Fluent in English * Black/African-American or White/European-American * Aged between 50-70 years old * Non-pregnant and non-menstruating (for at least the past year) * Have normal or corrected-to-normal vision and hearing * Have reliable access to wifi * Have an email account that you check regularly * Have a phone that receives text messages * Agree to provide blood and urine samples at two campus visits * Agree to devote up to 50 minutes daily to this study for 10 weeks as well as attend two campus visits Exclusion criteria * Have a disorder that would impede performing the breathing intervention (e.g., abnormal cardiac rhythm, arrhythmia, dyspnea) * Have cognitive impairment * Have regularly played Lumosity games in the past 6 months * Have any conditions listed below that are not safe for MRI * \*Metal in any parts of your body * Claustrophobia * Have worked as a machinist, metal worker, or in any profession or hobby grinding metal? * Have had an injury to the eye involving a metallic object (e.g., metallic slivers, shavings, or foreign body) * Cardiac pacemaker * Implanted cardiac defibrillator * Aneurysm clip or brain clip * Carotid artery vascular clamp * Neurostimulator * Insulin or infusion pump * Spinal fusion stimulator * Cochlear, otologic, ear tubes or ear implant * Prosthesis (eye/orbital, penile, etc.) * Implant held in place by a magnet * Heart valve prosthesis * Artificial limb or joint * Other implants in body or head * Electrodes (on body, head or brain) * Intravascular stents, filters * Shunt (spinal or intraventricular) * Vascular access port or catheters * IUD * Transdermal delivery system or other types of foil patches (e.g., Nitro, Nicotine, Birth control, etc.) that cannot be removed for MRI * Shrapnel, buckshot, or bullets * Tattooed eyeliner or eyebrows * Body piercing(s) that cannot be removed for MRI * Metal fragments (eye, head, ear, skin) * Internal pacing wires * Aortic clips * Metal or wire mesh implants * Wire sutures or surgical staples * Harrington rods (spine) * Bone/joint pin, screw, nail, wire, plate * Wig or toupee that cannot be removed for MRI * Hair implants that involve staples or metal * Hearing aid(s) that cannot be removed for MRI * Dentures or retainers that cannot be removed for MRI