2021
Kelsey T. Laird, Felipe A Jain, Helen Lavretsky
Mind–body therapies that include meditation (e.g., mindfulness-based therapies, transcendental meditation, mantra meditation, and yoga) have demonstrated efficacy for enhancing mental health in a range of clinical and healthy populations. Of the forms of meditation, empirical research has most commonly focused on mindfulness-based approaches. Existing evidence suggests that, on average, both...
Applied Family Therapy Journal
2021
Zeinabsadat Hosaini, Vahid Ahmadi, SHahram Mami
Aim: The present study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in improving happiness and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in methamphetamine users. Methods: The research design was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group and a one-month follow-up. The statistical population consisted of all married male methamphetamine...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
2021
Elena Antonova, Karoly Schlosser, Rakesh Pandey et al.
The novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 that first emerged in Wuhan, China, in Nov-Dec 2019 has already impacted a significant proportion of the world population. Governments of many countries imposed quarantines and social distancing measures in 2020, many of which remain in place, to mitigate the spread of the SARS-Cov-2 virus causing the COVID-19 disease. The direct impact of COVID-19 on...
Epistemology & Philosophy of Science
2021
Sergei Yu. Shevchenko
The article deals with the problem of compatibility of the extended mind thesis with the concept of epistemic responsibility. This compatibility problem lies at the intersection of two current trends in Virtue Epistemology (VE): the study of extended cognition, and the return of VE to the topic of epistemic responsibility. I give objections to two seemingly independent positions; their...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
2021
Talis Bachmann
Theories of consciousness using neurobiological data or being influenced by these data have been focused either on states of consciousness or contents of consciousness. These theories have occasionally used evidence from psychophysical phenomena where conscious experience is a dependent experimental variable. However, systematic catalog of many such relevant phenomena has not been offered in...
Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry
2021
U. Kırlı, T. Binbay, K. Alptekin et al.
OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to evaluate the associations between alcohol-cannabis use and forensic/stressful events with the risk of incident clinical psychosis during follow-up. METHOD A community-based sample (n: 2142) was screened for clinical psychosis (schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, affective disorders with psychotic features) at baseline and follow-up. Thus, incident...
Journal of opioid management
2021
René C Vytialingam, Stephan A Schug, Richard O'Regan
Buprenorphine/naloxone (BPN/NX) is a first-line treatment for opioid use disorder. Conventional treatment guidelines recommend a period of opioid abstinence and the presence of moderate withdrawal before initiation to avoid precipitated withdrawal. A newer approach of "microdosing" removes this requirement and has potential benefits. We present two cases of successful induction of BPN/NX using...
Vestnik slavianskikh kul'tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures]
2021
N. Zhirtueva
The phenomenon of mysticism is one of the most controversial issues in modern humanities. We still lack generally accepted typology for mystical traditions of the world. The paper studies the issue of correlation between material and ideal beings, which constituted the basis of the most common typology of mystical doctrines. The research of mystical traditions, formed in Christianity, Islam and...
Neuroethics
2021
Muriel Leuenberger
The profound changes in personality, mood, and other features of the self that neural interventions can induce can be disconcerting to patients, their families, and caregivers. In the neuroethical debate, these concerns are often addressed in the context of possible threats to the narrative self. In this paper, I argue that it is necessary to consider a dimension of impacts on the narrative...
International Journal of Physiology, Nutrition and Physical Education
2021
A. Amrutha, Dr. S Alagesan
Yoga is an effective complementary approach to health maintenance and promotion for College women and has been demonstrated to support many dimensions of psychological wellbeing, from everyday stress to anxiety, aggression, and coping with health challenges. The Purpose of the present investigation was to find out the effect of Alternate Nostril Breathing and Meditation practices on...