Andrea Ruf

2 papers in the library · 83 citations · publishing 2018

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Can Mindfulness Address Maladaptive Eating Behaviors? Why Traditional Diet Plans Fail and How New Mechanistic Insights May Lead to Novel Interventions.

Frontiers in Psychology 2018 Judson A. Brewer, Andrea Ruf, Ariel L Beccia et al. 83 citations

Emotional and other maladaptive eating behaviors develop in response to a diversity of triggers, from psychological stress to the endless external cues in our modern food environment. While the standard approach to food- and weight-related concerns has been weight-loss through dietary restriction, these interventions have produced little long-term benefit, and may be counterproductive. A...

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01418 Full text Mindfulness Craving Disordered eating Maladaptive eating behaviors +4

Mapping complex mind states: EEG neural substrates of meditative unified compassionate awareness.

Consciousness and Cognition January 2018 Poppy L A Schoenberg, Andrea Ruf, John Churchill et al.

Specific mental training cultivates diminished self-reference, encompassing non-duality, emptiness, awakened-awareness, and compassionate experiences. We aimed to elucidate the neural substrates of four distinct, interdependent Essence-of-Mind states: (1) timelessness, (2) non-preference, non-duality, non-conceptualization, (3) the view of luminosity and limitlessness, (4) unified compassionate...

DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2017.11.003 Full text