PsyArXiv
December 16, 2025
Tim Neville Palmer, Clémence Alméras, Joshua Marquez et al.
preprint
Meditation techniques have been identified as relating differently to mental health outcomes, challenging experiences (e.g. anxiety, somatic effects, and psychotic-like experiences) and cognitive and emotional processes. Our aim was to better understand the differential relationship between ‘low body focused’ and ‘high body focused’ meditation techniques with psychotic-like experiences (PLEs),...
Anthropologica
December 16, 2025
Doriane Sabine Slaghenauffi
La aparición del «turismo chamánico» en algunas comunidades y zonas urbanas shipibo-konibo ha provocado un incremento de las prácticas brujeras vernáculas, ahora integradas en el nuevo contexto sociológico de la comercialización del chamanismo vegetalista local. Este clima provoca ataques de brujería tanto a los chamanes rivales como a los turistas que buscan una experiencia chamánica y...
International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
December 15, 2025
G Apsara, S Devaseelan
The current research investigates the efficacy of the Mindfulness Meditation Therapy (MMT) in improving the psychological well-being and the academic performance of higher secondary students in India. Young people often face high academic stress levels that negatively influence cognitive abilities and academic success as they cause anxiety, depression, and stress.
BMC Psychology
December 15, 2025
Nur Nihal Türkel, Mustafa Cemil Karaduran, Hande Gazey et al.
BACKGROUND: Our perspective on time constitutes a fundamental aspect of psychological functioning, making the assessment of time perspective critically important. This study aimed to examine the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the 18-item Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory - Short Form (ZTPI-Short), which includes the "Future Negative" subscale, and to explore the...
Psychedelic Medicine
December 15, 2025
M. Mehmood, Rebecka Bremler, M. Spriggs et al.
Background:Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are known to contribute to mental health issues and interfere with response to mental health interventions. Psychedelics have been found to improve mental health outcomes; however, the exploration of the effects of psychedelics on mental health in those with higher ACEs remains limited. The present study aimed to examine mental health outcomes and...
SIGGRAPH Asia Posters
December 14, 2025
Zi-Xin Wang, Shan Luo, Siyu Tian et al.
Nightmares disrupt sleep and heighten daytime anxiety, yet therapeutic support is often hard to access due to limited clinician availability, cost, and clinical framing. We propose TunTun Diary, a mobile game in which an alien puppy named TunTun “eats” players’ nightmares and returns gentle, comic-style retellings. The system uses generative AI to reinterpret users’ nightmare descriptions into...
Mindfulness
December 13, 2025
Chloe Wells, William van Gordon
Abstract Objectives This systematic review sought to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) that explicitly or implicitly integrate Buddhist wisdom principles, such as impermanence, interconnectedness, and/or non-attachment, for enhancing psychological well-being, pain management, and quality of life among cancer patients. Method Following PRISMA 2020 guidelines, a...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS
December 13, 2025
Hrnoor Bhatia, Prof. Kawal Gill
This is a systematic review of the therapeutic value of yoga in mental health that incorporates philosophical, neuroscientific, and clinical viewpoints. It relies on research conducted between 2000 and 2024 to synthesize empirical findings in psychology, neurobiology, and psychiatry, considering how yoga is a multidimensional mind-body intervention. The review follows the history and...
International Journal of Drug Policy
December 13, 2025
Michelle Olofsson, Walter Osika, Simon B. Goldberg et al.
2 citations
BACKGROUND: Naturalistic psychedelic use can result in a range of difficulties that impair social, occupational, and other important areas of functioning. Yet, the prevalence, phenomenology, and etiology of these outcomes remain poorly understood. Recent qualitative research has shown that individuals with long-term difficulties after psychedelic use sometimes attribute their challenges to...
Jurnal Karya Generasi Sehat
December 11, 2025
Ni Nyoman Ferry Astuti
Aging is a natural process that all humans go through. Aging in women begins with entering the climacteric period which begins at the age of 40-65 years. Premenopause usually causes symptoms such as irregular menstrual cycles, hot feelings from the chest to the face, cold sweats at night, vaginal dryness, insomnia, fatigue and depression. Efforts that can be made to reduce anxiety in...