Postoperative acute pain is a common issue in children after surgery. Our study aimed to investigate whether preoperative use of a dexmedetomidine-esketamine combination could reduce postoperative pain in children undergoing tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy and reduce side effects, such as bradycardia, hypotension or emergence delirium. In this double-blind, randomised controlled clinical trial,...
There is evidence to suggest that individuals with the personality trait of shyness are more prone to depression, and a possible key factor in the process of shyness leading to depression is core self-evaluation. Given the prevalence and cross-cultural nature of shyness in humans, it is crucial to understand the factors that reduce shyness, enhance core self-evaluation, and ultimately lower...
Abstract To investigate the potentially unique effects of mindfulness practice on social anxiety in college-bound high school seniors and explore the psychological mechanisms by which it works, this study compared the mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) group with the wait-list control (WLC) group. A total of 66 students who had just graduated from high school and were about to enter college...
This study investigates the intricate relations between dispositional mindfulness, executive functioning, rumination, and depression among Chinese high school students. It aims to understand how dispositional mindfulness can potentially predict depression in this demographic, providing insights for preventive interventions targeting adolescent depression. Despite growing recognition of...
Clarifying the mechanisms of loss and recovery of consciousness in the brain is a major challenge in neuroscience, and research on the spatiotemporal organization of rhythms at the brain region scale at different levels of consciousness remains scarce. By applying computational neuroscience, an extended corticothalamic network model was developed in this study to simulate the altered states of...
Ketamine has become increasingly popular in adolescent drug abusers worldwide. Meanwhile, alcohol is usually used by ketamine users. However, little work has been conducted to examine the chronic combined effects of ketamine and ethanol on adolescent brain. Here we probed into the effects of chronic administration of ketamine at recreational doses alone or combined with ethanol on behaviors and...
Treatment of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSSs) and facilitation of posttraumatic growth (PTG) are two encouraging areas of research, yet little is understood about the relationships between dispositional mindfulness, PTSSs, and PTG. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether PTSSs is correlated with PTG among breast cancer patients in China and explore the role of mindfulness...
We describe the intricate relations between social demand structures and their role in facilitation of individual development of children and teachers in a Chinese classroom. The relationship of an individual to the immediate social group is further qualified by the inclusion in a collective which enables the participants to transform their individual self-structures through taking on social...
This article reports a randomized controlled trial to investigate whether mindfulness training can successfully improve inner peace in participants with no known mental disorder. Fifty-seven participants were randomized to either mindfulness training (n = 29) or wait-list control (n = 28). The experience sampling method was used to measure the fleeting momentary experience of inner peace in...