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European Psychiatry May 18, 2011
Phenomenology of the social self in the prodrome of psychosis: from perceived negative attitude of others to heightened interpersonal sensitivity.
European Psychiatry March 1, 2011 E.C. Sundin, Edo Shonin, William van Gordon et al.
Mindfulness meditation has been practiced in the Eastern world for more than 25 centuries but only recently it has become popular in the West. Today, therapeutic interventions such as ‘Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction’ are used within health services throughout Europe as a means of improving patient wellbeing. Whilst these interventions have proved successful in reducing stress and depression...
European Psychiatry March 1, 2011 Thorsten Barnhofer
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (Segal, Williams, & Teasdale, 2002) is an eight-week treatment programme combining intensive training in mindfulness meditation and elements of cognitive therapy for depression that was specifically developed for the prevention of relapse in patients with recurrent course of the disorder. This talk will describe the rationale and format of the treatment...
European Psychiatry March 1, 2011 Helen Murphy, Marika Lahtinen
NICE guidelines indicate one in five people will suffer from depression at some point in their lives with relapse rates of 50–80% in those who have experienced one or more episodes of depression (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [NICE], 2007). By 2020, depression is predicted to be the second largest cause of death or disability and consequently there is a need to explore...
European Psychiatry March 1, 2011 Patricia Milz, A. Theodoropoulou, Shisei Tei et al.
IntroductionDifferent meditation practices reportedly affect brain electric activity.ObjectivesTo assess common characteristics in brain electric activity during the state of meditation across different meditation traditions.AimsDo meditation traditions share commonalities in EEG spectral power changes from task-free resting to meditation?MethodsData from 71 experienced meditators of five...
European Psychiatry March 1, 2011 B. Schimmelmann, S. Kupferschmid, Philippe Conus et al.
Background: Age at onset of psychosis (AAO) may be younger in patients with cannabis use disorders (CUD) compared to those without CUD (NCUD). Most previous studies did not control for potential confounders, did not report effect sizes and included mostly adult patients from non-representative samples. Methods: Controlling for relevant confounders, differences in AAO between patients with and...
European Psychiatry March 1, 2011 Pascal L Faber, D. Lehmann, Patricia Milz et al.
IntroductionThe measure of complex dimensionality assesses the number of independent processes that generate an observed time series.ObjectivesTo investigate whether meditation exercises are associated with fewer or more independently active brain processes, and whether different meditation traditions show different results.AimsDoes brain electric complex dimensionality differ between the state...
European Psychiatry October 2010 B Weber, Françoise Jermann, Marianne Gex-Fabry et al.
The present open study investigates the feasibility of Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in groups solely composed of bipolar patients of various subtypes. MBCT has been mostly evaluated with remitted unipolar depressed patients and little is known about this treatment in bipolar disorder. Bipolar outpatients (type I, II and NOS) were included and evaluated for depressive and hypomanic...
European Psychiatry 2010 Alberto Chiesa, Alessandro Serretti 4 citations
Objective Mindfulness meditations (MM) are an important group of meditative practices which have received growing attention. The aim of the present paper is to systematically review current evidence on the neurobiological changes and on the clinical benefits related to MM practice in psychiatric disorders, physical illnesses and in healthy subjects. Methods A literature search was undertaken...
European Psychiatry 2010 P. Matthews, Sal Anderson, Cinema And Psychosis 1 citation
According to the Jasperian model, phenomenology ‘gives a concrete description of the psychic states which patients actually experience and presents them for observation’ (Jaspers, General Psychopathology, 1963, 44). Narrative cinema is arguably no less phenomenological in that it employs a phalanx of aesthetic strategies (visual design, framing, editing, camera angle, point of view) to...
European Psychiatry 2010 Sang Bok Lee 1 citation
Author intends to explicate dreaming brain and mind interactions by interpreting the neurophenomenology of dreaming brain as well as by analyzing the narratives of collected dream data. The author articulates acculturative dreaming mind by demonstrating two empirical research outcomes and suggests some analogical connections between dreaming brain and acculturative dreaming mind. The author...
European Psychiatry 2010 Giovanni Stanghellini, B. Fulford
Schziophrenia is widely considered the most “philosophical” of all mental disorders. One main reason is that many persons with schizophrenia undergo experiences akin to what some philosophers want to attain by the suspension of common-sense attitude and beliefs. This phenomenon is quintessential to the formation of schizophrenic delusions. The typical metaphysical tinge to the contents of...
European Psychiatry 2010 Evelyn Doering-Silveira, Enrique Lopez, Charles S. Grob et al.
Introduction The use of psychoactive substances has been frequently associated with cognitive impairment. More and more people, including adolescents, use the plant hallucinogen beverage “ayahuasca” throughout the world. Long-term ayahuasca use by adolescents might eventually result in impaired cognitive performance. Objective The objective of this study is to assess neuropsychological...
European Psychiatry 2010 Sang Bok Lee
Aim The objective of this study was to differentiate ordinary dreams from traumatic and PTSD-related dreams, by using The Sang Bok Lee Neurocognitive Dream Orientation Scales assessing the narrative dream contents. Methods 1248 dreams were collected from 416 Korean college students, Yongin, South Korea - 198 males (M age=20.46 years, SD=1.32) and 218 females (M age=20.17, SD=1.26). The...
European Psychiatry 2010 S.B. Lee
The author interprets the neurophenomenology of Korean Shamanistic healing ritual from the perspectives on contemporary cognitive neuroscience and psychoneuroimmunology. In the traditional society of Korea, Shaman's healing performance has been one of the most dominant healing methods for the ordinary people. The field of neuropsychology and psychoneuroimmunology helps to articulate...
European Psychiatry 2010 T. Bonvalot, B. Placines, C. Bouché et al.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is being used, individually or in group format, to improve outcome and prevent relapse of patients with bipolar disorder (BD). CBT shows nevertheless limitations with regard, mainly, to patients having undergone a great number of mood episodes. In one published study, patients with more than 12 mood episodes typically did not respond favorably to the...
European Psychiatry 2010 C.P. Arun
IntroductionManic Thought Disorder (MTD) is a characteristic clinical feature of mania. In the past, explanations of its pathogenesis have ranged from hypotheses of a disordered lexicon, to the side effects of a fatuous affect. We previously modeled thought disorder in schizophrenia using the notion of threads of thought.ObjectivesTo examine the nature of MTD to see if it is consistent with the...
European Psychiatry 2010 R. Skinner, L. Conlon, D. Gibbons et al.
ObjectiveTo explore the relationship between cannabis use and self-report dimensions of psychosis in a population of university students presenting for any reason to primary care.MethodOne thousand and forty-nine students attending the Student Health Unit, National University of Ireland, Galway, completed self-report questionnaires on alcohol and substance misuse, non-clinical dimensions of...
European Psychiatry 2010 Andrea Fiorillo, D. Giacco, Mario Luciano et al.
Objectives: This study aimed to assess:a) the socio-demographic characteristics of patients with schizophrenia who were using cannabis at time of first appearing of psychotic symptoms; b) the impact of cannabis on the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) and on pathways to care; c) the influence of cannabis on the clinical onset and on the first three years of the disorder. Methods: Twenty-two...
European Psychiatry 2010 A. Dalal
The paper reviewed the relevance and richness of the traditional healing practices in India, and argued that they are based on complex psychological theories of mind and human nature. They provide practical solutions to personal, familial and social problems, and have been integrated within the communal life for centuries. The paper endeavoured to understand the way traditional healing works to...
European Psychiatry 2010 Alberto Chiesa, Alessandro Serretti
ObjectiveMindfulness based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a standardized meditation program which has been proposed as a therapeutic option for the prevention of relapses in patients suffering from major depression (MD). The aim of the present review and meta-analysis is to provide an estimate of the efficacy of MBCT for MD patients.MethodsA literature search was undertaken using MEDLINE, ISI web...
European Psychiatry 2009 Rebecca Kuepper, Inez Myin-Germeys, M. Konings et al. 2 citations
Frequent use of cannabis has been associated with poor outcome in patients with psychosis or schizophrenia, and research has become more and more interested in the question whether cannabis may actually cause psychosis or schizophrenia. Since only a minority of cannabis users eventually develops psychosis or schizophrenia, cannabis is suggested to be a component cause, potentially interacting...
European Psychiatry 2009 Paul D. Morrison, Shitij Kapur, R. Murray 1 citation
It has long been known that cannabis can elicit an acute psychotic reaction. Recent work shows that, of the 60 cannabinoid molecules in the plant, delta-9-tetrahydrocannibinol is responsible for the central effects of cannabis. Here we aimed to investigate, in more detail, the psychological effects of synthetic intravenous THC in healthy subjects. Over 2 experimental sessions, participants...
European Psychiatry 2009 Shyam K. Bhat
This paper summarizes the results of Integral Self Therapy in the treatment of a group of 30 patients with mild anxiety and depression, and explains the steps involved in this novel psychotherapeutic method. Integral Self Therapy (IST) is best defined as a transpersonal, nondual, psychotherapeutic method. It is a form of transpersonal psychotherapy since practitioners of IST incorporate a...
European Psychiatry 2009 C. Morgan
Cannabis contains a myriad of different chemicals, more than 60 of which are unique to the plant and called cannabinoids. The main psychoactive ingredient is delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and this produces the effects that users seek (Curran et al., 2002 Psychopharmacology 164: 61-70). When given intravenously to healthy humans, THC produces psychotic-like and anxiogenic effects (D’Souza et...