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 (opens in new tab)
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Mindfulness
Cognitive flexibility
EEG
Mvpa
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