Brain and BehaviorOctober 2026Mina Hasanpour, Kousar Dadkhah Tehrani, Amir Sam Kianimoghadam et al.
The Mind Excessively Wandering Scale (MEWS) assesses excessive mind-wandering. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Persian 12-item MEWS (MEWS-12) among Iranian adolescents, focusing on factor structure, internal consistency, associations with external measures, known-groups validity, and gender measurement invariance. In this cross-sectional study, 506 adolescents aged 12-18...
Rheumatoid arthritis affects physical and mental health; it brings psychological consequences such as dysfunctions in emotion regulation and cognitive-executive functions. The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) versus cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) on emotion regulation, mindfulness, and cognitive-executive...
More than 300 million people are affected by major depressive disorder, and despite advances in treatments over the past 50 years, this number is increasing worldwide. Due to the high prevalence and increasing numbers, along with problems in various aspects of the patient's life, new effective treatments are essential in this field. This study was a single-blinded randomized clinical trial....