JMIR Research Protocols
August 18, 2026
Ludivine Nohales, Sandrine Touzet, Anne Termoz et al.
Abstract Background Hospital professionals face mental health challenges caused by the high demands of their work. Mindfulness meditation (MM) is a nonpharmacological practice with promising effects in promoting mental health and well-being across various hospital professionals. However, the benefits obtained from its implementation in the context of real work in hospital departments are...
L'Encephale
April 7, 2026
Déborah Eymond, Alyson Miquel, Anais Duffaud et al.
Military personnel are frequently exposed to traumatic situations that can lead to chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD complicates their reintegration due to the high risk of retraumatization. To support the reintegration of injured servicemen and women, the army has developed the Omega program which includes courses at the Centre des Blessés de l'Armée de Terre (CReBAT). These...
Frontiers in Physiology
September 2, 2022
Charles Verdonk, Marion Trousselard, Takfarinas Medani et al.
Enhanced body awareness has been suggested as one of the cognitive mechanisms that characterize mindfulness. Yet neuroscience literature still lacks strong empirical evidence to support this claim. Body awareness contributes to postural control during quiet standing; in particular, it may be argued that body awareness is more strongly engaged when standing quietly with eyes closed, because only...
European Journal of Psychotraumatology
2022
Lionel Gibert, Mathieu Coulange, Jean-Charles Reynier et al.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a chronic and disabling disease that currently has no fully effective therapeutic solution. Complementary approaches, such as relaxation, sport, or meditation, could be therapeutic aids for symptom reduction. Scuba diving combines sport and mindfulness training and has been found to have a positive effect on chronic stress and PTSD. The first objective...
Charles Verdonk, Marion Trousselard
preprint
Manjaly and Iglesias (2020) introduce a neurocomputational model of mechanisms through which Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy may work, based on a Bayesian perspective. They claim that mindfulness increases the precision of likelihood, but decreases the precision of prior. In this commentary, we argue that these two mechanisms conflict when describing mindful functioning. We suggest an...