Frontiers in Psychiatry
May 23, 2022
Raquel Bennett, Christian Yavorsky, Gary Bravo
12 citations
Bipolar disorder (type 1) is a serious and chronic psychiatric illness that can be difficult to treat. Many bipolar patients have refractory depressive episodes. Racemic ketamine, a glutamate modulator with prominent dissociate and psychedelic properties, has been demonstrated to have rapid acting antidepressant and anti-obsessional effects which may be useful for treating the symptoms of...
Cureus
May 23, 2022
Kawther N Elsouri, Sahand Kalhori, Diego Colunge et al.
15 citations
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that often presents after exposure to a traumatic, life-threatening event. Experiencing a traumatic event is not rare, with inciting incidents ranging from being burglarized to politically motivated genocide. While traditional psychopharmacology and psychotherapy are the mainstays of the treatment of PTSD currently, psychoactive drugs...
Pharmaceuticals
May 23, 2022
Danish Mahmood, Sattam Khulaif Alenezi, Md Jamir Anwar et al.
29 citations
Psychedelics such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin (magic mushrooms), and mescaline exhibit intense effects on the human brain and behaviour. In recent years, there has been a surge in studies investigating these drugs because clinical studies have shown that these once banned drugs are well tolerated and efficacious in medically supervised low doses called microdosing....
PsyArXiv
May 21, 2022
Betül Tatar, Rebeka Pazmanyova, Esther K. Papies
preprint
PurposeBrief mindfulness-based interventions have received great research attention, including in the domain of anxiety. However, quantitative studies do not provide in-depth accounts of how brief mindfulness is experienced. In this qualitative study, we explored how non-meditator undergraduate students learn brief mindfulness and apply it to anxiety-provoking aspects of COVID-19. MethodsWe...
Brain Imaging and Behavior
May 18, 2022
Michelle Kennedy, Abdalla Z Mohamed, Paul Schwenn et al.
Mindfulness training has been associated with improved attention and affect regulation in preadolescent children with anxiety related attention impairments, however little is known about the underlying neurobiology. This study sought to investigate the impact of mindfulness training on functional connectivity of attention and limbic brain networks in pre-adolescents. A total of 47 children with...
Current Psychiatry Research and Reviews
May 16, 2022
Andrew Hodge, Suporn Sukpraprut‐braaten, Robert Strayhan
4 citations
Background: The use of psychedelic compounds to treat psychiatric disorders has become a very significant topic of research over the past several years. Psilocybin has risen to prominence as one of the most studied among these psychedelic compounds. Multiple trials have already shown that it can be a safe and efficacious treatment for various medical conditions. This study intends to perform a...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
May 13, 2022
Shadi Beshai, Sandeep Mishra, Justin R Feeney et al.
Public safety personnel (PSP) face frequent stressors that increase their risk of developing symptoms of depression and anxiety. In addition to being exposed to potentially traumatic events, PSP trainees may face a compounded risk of developing mental health symptoms, as their training environments are conducive to social comparisons and the resultant painful emotion of envy. Envy is associated...
Frontiers in Psychology
May 13, 2022
O. Khukhlaev, I. Novikova, A. Chernaya
In modern psychology, mindfulness is an important resource for psychological well-being and intergroup relations, but its role in intercultural communication effectiveness has not been sufficiently studied. This research aims to identify the interrelationship between interpersonal mindfulness, intergroup anxiety, and intercultural communication effectiveness among international students. The...
Journal of Eating Disorders
May 6, 2022
Reid Robison, Adele Lafrance, Madeline Brendle et al.
Depression and anxiety outcome measures, safety/tolerability, patient satisfaction, and ease of implementation of group-based ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (G-KAP) delivered to patients in intensive residential eating disorder (ED) treatment were assessed. This study reports on five participants with a diagnosis of an ED and comorbid mood and anxiety disorders who received weekly...
May 3, 2022
Ceci Westbrook, Janine M. Dutcher, Susan Kusmierski et al.
preprint
Uncontrollable worry is a hallmark of generalized anxiety disorder and a transdiagnostic feature of psychopathology. Mindfulness-based strategies show promise for treating worry, but neural mechanisms of mindful disengagement remain incompletely characterized. We recruited 40 participants with clinically significant worry to undergo fMRI while engaging in real-time, idiographic worry and...
The FASEB Journal
May 1, 2022
Thomas Basala, Brigitte Morin, John Durocher
According to the CDC, most children and about 1 in 3 adults in the United States fail to reach their age group recommended quantity of sleep. Recently, non‐pharmacological sleep aids, such as meditation, have gained popularity. However, to our knowledge there is no research data that compares sleep metrics or psychological well‐being between those that meditate in the morning vs. in the...
Open heart
May 2022
Tarun Kumar Mittal, Emma Evans, Alison Pottle et al.
The study evaluated the feasibility of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in patients with non-cardiac chest pain by assessing their willingness to participate and adhere to the programme, and for these data to help further refine the content of MBCT for chest pain. This prospective 2:1 randomised controlled trial compared the intervention of adapted MBCT as an addition to usual care...
فصلنامه علمی و پژوهشی اعتیادپژوهی
May 1, 2022
Paria Shakibayi, Parinaz Ghayuomi
ذهن بر مبتني درماني شناخت اثربخشي کيفيت و اضطراب سطح بر آگاهي افيوني مواد مصرف اختالل با زنان زندگي
Indian Journal of Psychiatry
May 1, 2022
Paul Alan Arkin Alvarado-García, Marilú Roxana Soto-Vásquez, Luis Enrique Rosales-Cerquín
Background: As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, mental health begins to be affected. In this sense, practical and low-cost solutions are necessary to minimize the impact on the population. Aim: This study aimed to determine the effect of a mindfulness-based online intervention for mental health during times of COVID-19. Method: A quasi-experimental study was carried out with pre-test and...
ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry
May 1, 2022
Marziea Raee, Nabi Fatahi, Mohammad Sadegh Homayoun et al.
Anxiety problems are common disorders in children and later ages. People with anxiety disorders need to be treated by psychological methods. The aim of the present study was to determine the effectivness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) on self-esteem, self-concept, and social anxiety of people with social anxiety disorder. The participants in this study were 30 individuals with...
Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental
May 1, 2022
Jason B. Luoma, Ben Shahar, M Kati Lear et al.
26 citations
Researchers have suggested that psychotherapy may be enhanced by the addition of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), particularly in the treatment of disorders wherein interpersonal dysfunction is central, such as social anxiety disorder. We review literature pertaining to three potential processes of change that may be instigated during sessions involving MDMA administration in the...
Journal of Biotechnology and Strategic Health Research
April 30, 2022
Muhammet Sevi̇ndi̇k, Şerif Bora Nazli, Orhan Murat Koçak
Introduction: The relationship between anxiety and dissociative symptoms is frequently mentioned, but dissociative symptoms are not seen in all patients with anxiety disorder. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between dissociative symptoms and temperament-character features in patients with anxiety disorders. Methods: The study sample consisted of 75 patients diagnosed...
Case Reports in Psychiatry
April 26, 2022
Jeremy Weleff, Kelly A. Bryant, Alexsandra Kovacevich et al.
5 citations
Background. Clinical trials have demonstrated that subanesthetic intravenous ketamine exerts antidepressant effects lasting a week or longer postinfusion, as well as antisuicidal effects starting approximately 4 hours postinfusion and lasting 72 hours or longer. These findings have generated considerable enthusiasm within psychiatry. However, reports of treatment-emergent suicide attempts and...
Substance Use & Misuse
April 25, 2022
Dimitri Daldegan-Bueno, Dóra Révész, Paulo Rogério Morais et al.
15 citations
Background: Preliminary evidence suggests that long-term ayahuasca use is associated with better psychosocial outcomes and less drug use; however, available data on the association between ayahuasca intake frequency and psychosocial outcomes is limited. Objectives: We sought to characterize and investigate the association of regular ayahuasca use, as compared to non-regular use, on licit...
Scientific Reports
April 20, 2022
Francesco Bossi, Francesca Zaninotto, Sonia D'Arcangelo et al.
Mindfulness interventions were shown to be effective in improving well-being and reducing perceived stress in several conditions. These effects were also found in online mindfulness-based training, especially in employees in organizational environments. The aim of this study was to test the effectiveness of an online mindfulness intervention on healthy employees, especially after the first...