Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
February 1, 2008
Umit B Semiz, Cengiz Basoglu, Servet Ebrinc et al.
The aims of the present study were to examine the rate of nightmare disorder (ND) and to determine the levels of dream anxiety and subjective sleep quality in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Another aim was to determine whether dream anxiety was associated with childhood trauma, dissociative experiences, and subjective sleep disturbance in BPD patients. Finally, the...
Neuropharmacology
January 2008
Tiziana Rubino, Cinzia Guidali, Daniela Viganò et al.
There is a general consensus that the effects of cannabinoid agonists on anxiety seem to be biphasic, with low doses being anxiolytic and high doses ineffective or possibly anxiogenic. Besides the behavioural effects of cannabinoids on anxiety, very few papers have dealt with the neuroanatomical sites of these effects. We investigated the effect on rat anxiety behavior of local administration...
Complementary health practice review
2008
James Beauchemin, Tiffany L. Hutchins, Fiona Patterson
Students with learning disabilities (LD; defined by compromised academic performance) often have higher levels of anxiety, school-related stress, and less optimal social skills compared with their typically developing peers. Previous health research indicates that meditation and relaxation training may be effective in reducing anxiety and promoting social skills. This pilot study used a...
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
November 1, 2007
Louanne W. Davis, Amy M. Strasburger, Linda F. Brown
Despite evidence that individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders experience significant and persistent symptoms of anxiety, there are few reports of the use of empirically supported treatments for anxiety in this population. This article describes how we have tried to adapt mindfulness interventions to help individuals with schizophrenia who experience significant anxiety symptoms....
Psychology of Music
October 10, 2007
Peter Lin, Joanne C Chang, Vance Zemon et al.
94 citations
This study investigated the effects of Chan (Zen) meditation on musical performance anxiety and musical performance quality. Nineteen participants were recruited from music conservatories and randomly assigned to either an eight-week meditation group or a wait-list control group. After the intervention, all participants performed in a public concert. Outcome measures were performance anxiety...
Journal of Korean Academy of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
September 30, 2007
Yeon Ja Choi
1 citation
Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of meditation therapy on the social anxiety. Methods: The subjects of this study were totally 111(54 in the experimental group, 57 in the control group) as nursing students. Research design was nonequivalcnt control group pretest - posttest quasi-experimental research. The period was from March to October, 2006. The researcher gave experimental...
Psychological Reports
August 1, 2007
Fabrizio Coppola
Natural Stress Relief meditation, a mental technique which is practiced for 15 minutes twice a day, aims to reduce stress and anxiety by eliciting a specific state of physiological rest along with mental alertness. The meditation is taught in a self-administered program, requiring one hour of training during the first three days, followed by the regular twice daily practice. Each 15-min....
Journal of Anxiety Disorders
July 22, 2007
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder.
Consciousness and Cognition
June 15, 2007
Elizaveta Solomonova, Tore Nielsen, Philippe Stenstrom et al.
Isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) is a common parasomnia characterized by an inability to move or speak and often accompanied by hallucinations of a sensed presence nearby. Recent research has linked ISP, and sensed presence more particularly, with social anxiety and other psychopathologies. The present study used a large sample of respondents to an internet questionnaire (N=193) to test whether...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
June 5, 2007
H Henrik Ehrsson, Katja Wiech, Nikolaus Weiskopf et al.
The feeling of body ownership is a fundamental aspect of self-consciousness. The underlying neural mechanisms can be studied by using the illusion where a person is made to feel that a rubber hand is his or her own hand by brushing the person's hidden real hand and synchronously brushing the artificial hand that is in full view. Here we show that threat to the rubber hand can induce a similar...