University of Wisconsin–Madison, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
85 papers in the library · 4,672 citations · publishing 2012-2026
J Psychopharmacol October 29, 2024 Otto Simonsson, Simon B. Goldberg, Peter S. Hendricks 4 citations
Into the wild frontier: Mapping the terrain of adverse events in psychedelic-assisted therapies.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology August 1, 2024 Simon B. Goldberg, Daniel M. Bolt, Cortland J. Dahl et al. 5 citations
Meditation apps are the most widely used mental health apps. The precise mechanisms underlying their effects remain unclear. In particular, the degree to which affect experienced during meditation is associated with outcomes has not been established. We used the meditation app arm of a recently completed randomized controlled trial comparing a self-guided meditation app (Healthy Minds Program)...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) July 14, 2024 Isaac N Treves, Aaron Kucyi, Madelynn Park et al. 1 citation preprint
Abstract Introduction Trait mindfulness refers to one’s disposition or tendency to pay attention to their experiences in the present moment, in a non-judgmental and accepting way. Trait mindfulness has been robustly associated with positive mental health outcomes, but its neural underpinnings are poorly understood. Prior resting-state fMRI studies have associated trait mindfulness with within-...
Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) May 1, 2024 Sarah Strohmaier, Simon B. Goldberg 13 citations
With research on mindfulness increasing exponentially, it is important to clarify factors that may influence the success of this approach. We examined the construct of mindfulness meditation practice quality using longitudinal data drawn from a randomized controlled trial testing low-dose mindfulness practices with novice mindfulness practitioners from the general population (N = 48). Results...
Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science May 1, 2024 Simon B. Goldberg, Zishan Jiwani, Daniel M. Bolt et al. 8 citations
Bidirectional associations between changes in symptoms and alliance are established for in-person psychotherapy. Alliance may play an important role in promoting engagement and effectiveness within unguided mobile health (mHealth) interventions. Using models disaggregating alliance and psychological distress into within- and between-person components (random intercept cross-lagged panel model),...
Psychological Medicine April 1, 2024 Otto Simonsson, Walter Osika, Cecilia U.D. Stenfors et al. 15 citations
Previous research has proposed that there may be potential synergies between psychedelic and meditation interventions, but there are still knowledge gaps that merit further investigation. Using a longitudinal observational research design with samples representative of the US and UK adult population with regard to sex, age, and ethnicity (N = 9732), we investigated potential associations...
Journal of Counseling Psychology March 1, 2024 Kevin M. Riordan, Otto Simonsson, Corrina Frye et al. 12 citations
Meditation apps are the most commonly used mental health apps. However, the optimal dosing of app-delivered meditation practice has not been established. We examined whether the distribution of meditation practices across a day impacted outcomes in a distressed population. We investigated the effects of meditation practice frequency in a 2-week compassion-based meditation intervention delivered...
Clinical Psychology Review February 1, 2024 Jake Linardon, Mariel Messer, Simon B. Goldberg et al. 61 citations
Mindfulness apps have become popular tools for addressing symptoms of depression and anxiety. Since the publication of earlier meta-analyses evaluating the efficacy of mindfulness apps for depression and anxiety symptoms, over 20 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been conducted. There is a need for an updated meta-analysis that quantifies the effects of mindfulness apps on these symptoms...
Journal of Affective Disorders January 26, 2024 Ludwig Honk, Cecilia U.D. Stenfors, Simon B. Goldberg et al. 41 citations
It has long been speculated that psychedelic use could provoke the onset of psychosis, but there is little evidence to support this conjecture. Using a longitudinal research design with samples representative of the US and UK adult populations with regard to sex, age, and ethnicity (n = 9732), we investigated associations between psychedelic use and change in the number of psychotic symptoms...
Frontiers in Psychology 2024 Brian M. Galla, Aishwarya Karanam, Avital Pelakh et al. 13 citations
Are universal school-based mindfulness interventions an effective way to reduce risk for mental disorders and improve adolescents' lives? To answer this question, we reanalyzed data from Dunning et al.'s (2022) meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of mindfulness interventions delivered to children and adolescents. Though Dunning et al. (2022) reported some benefits of universal...
Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) 2024 Otto Simonsson, Peter S. Hendricks, Cecilia Ud Stenfors et al.
Whereas findings from case reports and cross-sectional studies suggest that naturalistic psychedelic use may be associated with unusual visual experiences that occur after the acute pharmacological effects have subsided, such findings need to be replicated in longitudinal studies to better understand potential cause-and-effect relationships. To investigate longitudinal associations between...
November 3, 2023 Qiang Xie, Rachel L. Dyer, Sin U Lam et al. 1 citation preprint
Objectives: Informal practice (i.e., brief meditation practices incorporated spontaneously into daily activities) may be important for increasing the efficacy and accessibility of meditation-based interventions (MedBIs). However, the facilitators and barriers to engaging in informal practice are largely unknown. The current study aimed to investigate factors associated with the implementation...
Mindfulness November 1, 2023 Isaac N Treves, Halie A Olson, Ola Ozernov-Palchik et al. 15 citations
School-based mindfulness interventions in children have shown benefits to child well-being. Here, we investigated the effectiveness of a remote, app-based mindfulness intervention for promoting well-being in children. We conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with two control groups to examine the effects of an 8-week mindfulness intervention in U.S. children ages 8-10. We compared...
October 17, 2023 Christian A. Webb, Lori M. Hilt, Caroline M. Swords et al. 1 citation preprint
Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is increasingly being incorporated into intervention studies to acquire a more fine-grained and ecologically valid assessment of change. The added utility of including relatively burdensome EMA measures in a clinical trial hinges on several psychometric assumptions, including that these measure are: (1) reliable, (2) related but not redundant with...
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology September 28, 2023 Christian A. Webb, Matthew J. Hirshberg, Oscar González et al. 6 citations
OBJECTIVE: they work. Mechanisms of change may be obscured due to prior research collapsing across heterogeneous subgroups of patients with differing underlying mechanisms of response. Studies identifying baseline individual characteristics that predict differential response (i.e., moderation) may inform research on why (i.e., mediation) a particular subgroup has better outcomes to an...
Psychiatry Research July 23, 2023 Otto Simonsson, Per Carlbring, Robin Carhart-Harris et al. 24 citations
We conducted a meta-analysis using individual participant data from three, two-dose psilocybin trials for depression (N = 102) with the aim of assessing the risk of symptom worsening. Clinically significant symptom worsening occurred for a minority of participants in the psilocybin and escitalopram conditions (∼10%) and for a majority of participants in the waitlist condition (63.6%). Using...
Nature. Mental health July 10, 2023 Julieta Galante, Claire Friedrich, Napaporn Aeamla-Or et al. 102 citations
Mindfulness-based programmes (MBPs) are widely used to prevent mental ill-health that is becoming the leading global cause of morbidity. Evidence suggests beneficial average effects but wide variability. We aimed to confirm the effect of MBPs on psychological distress, and to understand whether and how baseline distress, gender, age, education, and dispositional mindfulness modify the effect of...
Psychotherapy Research May 8, 2023 Simon B. Goldberg, Christopher Anders, Shannon L. Stuart-Maver et al. 28 citations
Objective: Meditation, mindfulness, and acceptance (MMA) methods have gained popularity among psychotherapists and the public. The impact of these strategies as implemented in treatment packages (e.g., mindfulness-based interventions) has been studied extensively. However, the impact of integrating MMA strategies into individual psychotherapy has not been established.Methods: To address this...
JMIR Mental Health April 28, 2023 Sin U Lam, Qiang Xie, Simon B. Goldberg 29 citations
Meditation apps have the potential to increase access to evidence-based strategies to promote mental health. However, it is currently unclear how meditation apps are situated within the broader landscape of meditation practice and what factors may influence engagement with them. This study aimed to clarify the prevalence and correlates of meditation app use in a population-based sample of...
Journal of Affective Disorders April 1, 2023 Otto Simonsson, Peter S. Hendricks, Richard Chambers et al. 124 citations
Previous studies have investigated challenging, difficult, or distressing classic psychedelic experiences, but little is known about the prevalence and associations of such experiences. Using nationally representative data of the US adult population (N = 2822), this study examined the prevalence and associations of challenging, difficult, or distressing experiences using classic psychedelics,...
Mindfulness April 1, 2023 Charlotta Simonsson, Richard Chambers, Peter S. Hendricks et al. 15 citations
Previous research has investigated potential synergies between classic psychedelics and meditation practice, but relatively little remains known about the relationship between classic psychedelic experiences and engagement with meditation practice.The purpose of this study was to investigate associations between classic psychedelic experiences and engagement with two popular types of...
February 10, 2023 Qiang Xie, Kevin M. Riordan, Scott A. Baldwin et al. 2 citations preprint
We investigated whether informal meditation practice (i.e., engagement of meditative techniques outside a period of formal meditation) was associated with outcomes in smartphone-based loving-kindness and compassion training. Clinically distressed meditation-naïve participants (n = 351) completed measures of psychological distress, loneliness, empathy, and prosociality at baseline and following...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 2023 Otto Simonsson, Simon B. Goldberg 37 citations
There are neurophysiological and phenomenological overlaps between psychedelic and meditative states, but there is little evidence on how exposure to psychedelics might be associated with meditation-related variables. We assessed lifetime classic psychedelic use, ego dissolution during one's most intense experience using a classic psychedelic, and exposure to meditation in a representative...
Frontiers in Psychology 2023 Otto Simonsson, Cecilia U.D. Stenfors, Simon B. Goldberg et al. 4 citations
Previous research suggests that mindfulness meditation and psychedelic substances show promise as mental health interventions, but relatively little remains known about their potential impact on leadership outcomes. This study aimed to investigate if and how mindfulness meditation and psychedelic use may impact leadership among respondents with a management position as their primary role at...
Mindfulness 2023 Sin U Lam, Kevin M. Riordan, Otto Simonsson et al.
Despite the well-documented psychological benefits of meditation practice, limited research has examined factors associated with meditation practice persistence. Like other health behaviors (e.g., exercise), non-persistence may undermine the effectiveness of meditation. We examined rates and correlates of meditation persistence using a population-based sample (n = 953) in the United States....