Clinical EEG and Neuroscience
December 4, 2025
Xiaoqian Yu, Geoffrey F. Potts
Acceptance, nonjudgmental awareness of the present-moment experiences, is a central component of mindfulness. This study used a pretest-posttest design to examine whether a brief mindfulness intervention (MI) could increase self-reported acceptance and reduce affective reactivity to errors, as indexed by error-related negativity (ERN), error positivity (Pe), and post-error slowing (PES)....
Frontiers in Psychology
August 21, 2025
Xiaoqian Yu, Christine Vinci, Geoffrey F. Potts
Background: Attention regulation is crucial for mindfulness practice; however, the influence of baseline attention ability on mindfulness training outcomes remains underexplored. This study examined the effects of a brief mindfulness intervention on attention and investigated whether baseline inattention symptoms moderated these effects in meditation-naïve university students. Methods: This...
Translational Psychiatry
July 13, 2025
Xiaoqian Yu, Aki Tsuchiyagaito, Masaya Misaki et al.
4 citations
Early life adversity (ELA) disrupts default mode network (DMN) integrity subserving self-referential processes involved in emotional awareness and regulation. Mindfulness training (MT) reduces self-referential processing and down-regulates the DMN. We employed neurofeedback-augmented mindfulness training (NAMT), combining a core mindfulness strategy (focusing on breath) with real-time fMRI...
Journal of Religion and Health
April 1, 2025
Asma Najmadini, Radhwan Hussein Ibrahim, Xiaoqian Yu et al.
Mindfulness is increasingly recognized as an effective strategy for managing chronic illnesses and improving mental well-being in cancer patients. This study sought to adapt and validate a Persian version of Relaxation, Meditation, and Mindfulness Experiences Tracker Questionnaire trait month 3.1″ (P-RMMtm 3.1) for use with Iranian cancer patients. This cross-sectional study was conducted in...
Frontiers in Neuroscience
2024
Kelly T. Cosgrove, Aki Tsuchiyagaito, Zsofia P Cohen et al.
3 citations
Mindfulness training has been shown to promote positive mental health outcomes and related changes in neural networks such as the default mode network, which has a central node in the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC). Previous work from our group reported on the impact of a novel, neurofeedback augmented mindfulness training (NAMT) task on regulation of PCC hemodynamic activity in typically...
Brain Sciences
March 9, 2022
Xiaoqian Yu, Zsofia P Cohen, Aki Tsuchiyagaito et al.
Mindfulness training (MT) reduces self-referential processing and promotes interoception, the perception of sensations from inside the body, by increasing one's awareness of and regulating responses to them. The posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and the insular cortex (INS) are considered hubs for self-referential processing and interoception, respectively. Although MT has been consistently...