South Asian immigrant women face elevated cardiometabolic risk at lower body mass indices and higher rates of mood and anxiety disorders compared to White women. This study aims to evaluate the feasibility and effects of a culturally adapted lifestyle intervention combining Ashtanga-based yoga with mindfulness on mental, functional and cardiometabolic outcomes in South Asian immigrant women...
Mindfulness meditation apps are associated with significant health benefits, yet many new app subscribers have low engagement and are unlikely to attain these benefits.This study examined the user characteristics that predict meditation app usage during the first eight weeks after subscribing. New meditation app subscribers (N = 304) completed a baseline survey which measured demographics,...
Quality in SportApril 5, 2026Magdalena Ostaszewska, Milena Majchrzyk, Damian Zienkiewicz et al.
Introduction and aim of the study: 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is a stimulant drug with widespread consumption. It is used mainly in recreational settings, due to its ability to induce various pleasurable, mood-enhancing effects. Prolonged and excessive MDMA misuse can lead to multiple negative outcomes ranging from cognitive dysfunction or emotional dysregulation to severe...
There has been increasing research on the application of yoga and meditation to the composition of performing arts as one of the comprehensive approaches to creativity, stage performance, and well-being of the performers. Exposing the works of art to intense physical exercises, emotional outbursts, and excessive psychological stress, tend to affect the performance, as well as their health in...
Background: The medical students experience a lot of stress, which increase when they appear for internal assessment examination. Yoga as an anxiolytic tool which has been practiced over centuries in India. Aims and Objectives: To assess the efficacy of yoga in increasing the cognitive performance in medical students after practicing it for 6 months. Materials and Methods: A comparative study...
BACKGROUND: Dissociation, a disruption in the coherent integration of experience, is increasingly recognized as a clinically relevant yet underexplored phenomenon in epilepsy. While psychobehavioral symptoms such as anxiety and depression are routinely addressed in epilepsy care, dissociation remains understudied and formal assessment frameworks to better evaluate and integrate dissociative...
A depressão é uma das principais causas de incapacidade no mundo, e suas abordagens terapêuticas convencionais, embora eficazes para muitos pacientes, ainda apresentam limitações significativas, como início tardio dos efeitos e resistência ao tratamento. Nesse contexto, destaca-se a hoasca, também conhecida como ayahuasca, uma infusão amazônica tradicional composta por Banisteriopsis caapi e...
This study aims to trace the historical origins and conceptual divergence of "autism" as employed in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD), and to examine their recent rapprochement through the lens of phenomenological psychopathology. A narrative review was conducted to analyze primary historical sources, including works by Bleuler, Kanner, and their...
Objectives: Adolescents with chronic migraine face increased risk for comorbid anxiety and depression that, can hinder migraine self-management and coping. Mindfulness-based interventions may reduce anxiety/depression to improve migraine outcomes, yet require tailoring to increase acceptability and engagement among this distinct population. The current study used qualitative methods to explore...