Scientific Reports
August 5, 2025
S. Moser, Hans Knoblauch, B. Müller-Myhsok et al.
Survival mechanisms are evolutionary grown behaviors in life-threatening situations. They are thought to be determined by genetic patterns involved in stress systems, such as the control of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. FK506 binding protein 5 (FKBP5) is a co-chaperone that is involved in modulating glucocorticoid receptor (GR) sensitivity in response to stress. Dissociation is...
Mindfulness
2025
Abigail Powers, Rebecca Lipschutz, Emma C Lathan et al.
Trauma burden and resulting psychopathology disproportionately affect Black adults with limited socioeconomic resources. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a group-based intervention with promise for addressing trauma-related psychopathology that may be of value for Black adults with limited socioeconomic resources because it may be more approachable for individuals with mental...
Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders
December 1, 2024
Malin Au, Rebecca Lipschutz, Yara Mekawi et al.
4 citations
Low-income, urban-dwelling Black adults are disproportionately affected by traumatic experiences, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and depression and encounter inequities in treatment access. In addition to the benefits Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for depression, there is preliminary evidence of successful symptom reduction in PTSD via MBCT across two prior pilot studies in...
Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders
March 1, 2024
Abigail Powers, Emma C Lathan, Elizabeth Mcafee et al.
7 citations
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) offers promise as a group-based intervention to alleviate posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression symptoms in traumatized Black adults. Given the high level of barriers that exist for low-income Black adults, virtual delivery of MBCT may be helpful. This pilot randomized controlled trial assessed feasibility and acceptability of an adapted...
Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy
July 2023
Abigail Powers, Emma C Lathan, H Drew Dixon et al.
There is support for the use of mindfulness-based approaches with trauma-exposed adults. However, limited data are available on feasibility and acceptability of group-based mindfulness interventions in urban medical clinics serving primarily Black adults with low socioeconomic resources, where rates of trauma exposure are high. The present randomized pilot study evaluated the feasibility and...
Psychological Medicine
May 5, 2023
Negar Fani, Alfonsina Guelfo, Dominique L. la Barrie et al.
10 citations
BACKGROUND: Dissociative symptoms can emerge after trauma and interfere with attentional control and interoception; disruptions to these processes are barriers to mind-body interventions such as breath-focused mindfulness (BFM). To overcome these barriers, we tested the use of an exteroceptive augmentation to BFM, using vibrations equivalent to the amplitude of the auditory waveform of the...