Objectives: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) can reduce chronic stress, but their therapeutic mechanisms remain unclear. MBIs may train attention monitoring and acceptance skills that have been impaired by chronic stress exposure, and the interaction between these skills might lead to chronic stress reduction. In the present study, we aimed at directly replicating one of the few existing...
Abstract: In 2017, Lindsay and Creswell proposed the Monitor and Acceptance Theory (MAT) of mindfulness, which proposed a unified and testable framework for interpreting and predicting different mindfulness effects on attention, affective reactivity, emotion regulation, and health-related variables. MAT identifies two basic mindfulness skills: attention monitoring and acceptance. The theory is...
Background: Psilocybin, a psychoactive serotonin receptor partial agonist, has been reported to acutely reduce clinical symptoms of depressive disorders. Psilocybin’s effects on cognitive function have not been widely or systematically studied. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the safety of simultaneous administration of psilocybin to healthy participants in the largest randomised...