American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
August 10, 2010
Linda F. Brown, Louanne W. Davis, Valerie A. LaRocco et al.
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Mindfulness meditation training has been found to be helpful across a range of mental and physical health conditions. Research testing mindfulness-based interventions in the psychiatric rehabilitation context has been rare, however—possibly due to concerns about the potential for exacerbation of psychotic symptoms during meditation practice. Fifteen individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia...
Journal of Pain
August 2010
Sungkun Cho, Elaine M Heiby, Lance M. McCracken et al.
Mindfulness involves reducing potential influences from aversive cognitions, sensations, and emotions on behavior. Mindfulness may influence the experience of pain-related anxiety, and thereby enhance other aspects of physical and psychosocial functioning. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate a potential mediating role of pain-related anxiety between mindfulness and physical and...
Journal of Palliative Medicine
July 2010
Scott A Irwin, Alana Iglewicz
Depression is prevalent and undertreated in patients receiving hospice care. Standard antidepressants do not work rapidly or often enough to benefit most of these patients. Here, two cases are reported in which a single oral dose of ketamine provided rapid and moderately sustained symptom relief for both depression and anxiety. In addition, no adverse effects were noted. Further investigation...
Journal of Anxiety Disorders
June 25, 2010
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for hypochondriasis, or severe health anxiety: a pilot study.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
June 1, 2010
Effect of progressive self-focus meditation on attention, anxiety, and depression scores.
Neuroscience Letters
May 21, 2010
Peng Huang, Lee-Yuan Liu-Chen, Lynn G Kirby
Marijuana discontinuation has been recently reported to be anxiogenic in humans, which may predict relapse. Limited animal research has been carried out to model this withdrawal-associated negative affect. The current study sought to investigate the potential anxiety-like effects of cannabinoid withdrawal in mice. Male ICR mice were injected s.c. with delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) at...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
May 2010
S Fokos, G Panagis
Although cannabis derivatives produce clear subjective motivational responses in humans leading to drug-seeking behaviour, the reinforcing attributes of these subjective effects are difficult to define in experimental animals. The aim of this study was to examine how exposure to chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) will affect reward function and anxiety after acute administration of...
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
May 2010
Hye Myung Joo, Sung Jae Lee, Yong Gu Chung et al.
In this study, the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program was applied to patients presenting with depression and anxiety after surgery from spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and the effects were assessed. The subjects were patients admitted for cerebral aneurysm rupture and treated by means of surgery from March to December, 2007. More than 6 months had passed after surgery,...
Journal of Anxiety Disorders
April 3, 2010
Effectiveness of a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy program as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy in patients with panic disorder.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
April 1, 2010
Stefan G Hofmann, Alice T. Sawyer, Ashley A. Witt et al.
BACKGROUND Although mindfulness-based therapy has become a popular treatment, little is known about its efficacy. OBJECTIVES To conduct an effect size analysis of this popular intervention for anxiety and mood symptoms in clinical samples. DATA SOURCES A literature search was conducted using PubMed, PsycInfo, the Cochrane Library, and manual searches. REVIEW METHODS The search identified 39...