Ioannis Papassotiriou

2 papers in the library · 154 citations · publishing 2017-2025

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Serum BDNF Increase After 9-Month Contemplative Mental Training Is Associated With Decreased Cortisol Secretion and Increased Dentate Gyrus Volume: Evidence From a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science March 1, 2025 Lara M.c. Puhlmann, Pascal Vrtička, Roman Linz et al.

In this study, we investigated whether mindfulness- and meditation-based mental training that improves stress regulation can upregulate BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), an important promoter of hippocampal neuroplasticity, and examined cortisol reduction as a mediating pathway. In a randomized clinical trial, 332 healthy adults were randomly assigned to one of the 3 training cohorts or...

DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100414 Full text Meditation Bdnf Cortisol Hippocampus +2

Specific reduction in cortisol stress reactivity after social but not attention-based mental training

Science Advances October 4, 2017 Veronika Engert, Bethany E Kok, Ioannis Papassotiriou et al. 154 citations

Psychosocial stress is a public health burden in modern societies. Chronic stress-induced disease processes are, in large part, mediated via the activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and the sympathetic-adrenal-medullary system. We asked whether the contemplative mental training of different practice types targeting attentional, socio-affective (for example, compassion),...

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1700495