Mindfulness
2026
Hei-Yin Hydra Ng, Ai-Ling Hsu, Wu Cc et al.
Breathing training is a common intervention in self-help training and mindfulness practices. The positive effects on mental health are likely because of the development of emotion regulation. Neuroscientific evidence has shown that emotion regulation can be based on approach or withdrawal motivation, characterized by neurological frontal asymmetry. This study examined the role of emotion...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
December 1, 2024
Ai-Ling Hsu, Chun-Yu Wu, Hei-Yin Hydra Ng et al.
Practicing mindfulness is a mental process toward interoceptive awareness, achieving stress reduction and emotion regulation through brain-function alteration. Literature has shown that electroencephalography (EEG)-derived connectivity possesses the potential to differentiate brain functions between mindfulness naïve and mindfulness experienced, where such quantitative differentiation could...
Journal of Neuroscience Research
June 1, 2023
Hei-Yin Hydra Ng, Changwei W Wu, Feng-Ying Huang et al.
Practicing mindfulness, focusing attention on the internal and external experiences occurring in the present moment with open and nonjudgement stance, can lead to the development of emotional regulation skills. Yet, the effective connectivity of brain regions during mindfulness has been largely unexplored. Studies have shown that mindfulness practice promotes functional connectivity in...
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
March 21, 2023
Shiao-Fei Guu, Yi-Ping Chao, Feng-Ying Huang et al.
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Mindfulness refers to a mental state of awareness of internal experience without judgment. Studies have suggested that each mindfulness practice may involve a unique mental state, but the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms remain unknown. Here we examined how distinct mindfulness practices after mindfulness-based intervention alter brain functionality. Specifically, we investigated the...
Frontiers in Psychology
2021
Hei-Yin Hydra Ng, Changwei W Wu, Feng-Ying Huang et al.
Objectives: Mindfulness-based stress reduction has been proven to improve mental health and quality of life. This study examined how mindfulness training and various types of mindfulness practices altered brain activity. Methods: Specifically, the spectral powers of scalp electroencephalography of the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) group (n=17) who underwent an 8-week MBSR...
Human Brain Mapping
October 17, 2020
Feng-Ying Huang, Ai-Ling Hsu, Yi-Ping Chao et al.
Bereavement, the experience of losing a loved one, is one of the most catastrophic but inevitable events in life. It causes grief and intense depression-like sadness. Recent studies have revealed the effectiveness and proficiency of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in emotional regulation among bereavement populations. MBCT improves the well-being of the bereaved by enhancing...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2018
Feng-Ying Huang, Ai-Ling Hsu, Li-Ming Hsu et al.
The grief of bereavement is recognized as a severe psychosocial stressor that can trigger a variety of mental and physical disorders, and the long-lasting unresolved grief has a detrimental effect on brain functionality. Literature has documented mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) as an efficient treatment for improving well-being, specifically related to the mood and cognition, in a...