Sarah Rempel

2 papers in the library · publishing 2023-2026

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App-based mindfulness meditation training enhances cognitive flexibility and modulates ACC and medial frontal gyrus activation during task switching in adolescent OCD.

Neuroimage: Reports June 1, 2026 Sarah Rempel, Maria McDonald, Veit Roessner et al.

Cognitive flexibility is a core executive function often impaired in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Mindfulness-based interventions have been hypothesized to improve cognitive flexibility and may be a promising adjunctive intervention for adolescents with OCD. The current study examines which cognitive neurophysiological processes underlie mindfulness-based interventions...

DOI: 10.1016/j.ynirp.2026.100347 Full text Mindfulness Cognitive flexibility EEG Mvpa +2

App-Based Mindfulness Meditation Training and an Audiobook Intervention Reduce Symptom Severity but Do Not Modify Backward Inhibition in Adolescent Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Evidence from an EEG Study

Journal of Clinical Medicine March 24, 2023 Sarah Rempel, Lea L. Backhausen, Maria McDonald et al.

(1) Background: 1–2% of children and adolescents are affected by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The rigid, repetitive features of OCD and an assumed disability to inhibit recent mental representations are assumed to have led to a paradoxical advantage in that the Backward Inhibition (BI) effect was recently found to be lower in adolescents with OCD as compared to healthy controls. It was...

DOI: 10.3390/jcm12072486 Full text