Late-life depression represents a significant health concern, linked to disruptions in brain connectivity and immune functioning, mood regulation, and cognitive function. This pilot study explores a digital intervention targeting mental health, brain health, and immune functioning in individuals aged 55-60 with subjective cognitive decline, elevated stress and depressive symptoms. Seventeen...
Dear Sir, ‘There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep’ Homer, the Odyssey. A recent systemic review of an aggregated data from 35 empirical studies (N=36,533 subjects) found that 7.6% of the general population experienced at least one Sleep paralysis episode over the course of their life. Higher lifetime prevalence rates were found in students (28.3%) and psychiatric...
Fear acquisition is an essential survival mechanism for humans; however, the role and mechanisms of mindfulness training in this process remain unclear. This study employed a discriminative fear conditioning paradigm to investigate the effects and mechanisms of short-term mindfulness training, exemplified by the breath-counting task, on fear acquisition. The experiment consisted of three...
This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of Mindfulness Based Stress Rreduction (MBSR) in increasing resilience and test the difference in resilience levels reviewed from the socioeconomic status of ODGJ companion families at the Oepoi Health Center, Kupang City. Resilience is the ability of individuals to manage themselves both within individuals such as individual emotions and thoughts as...
Meditation is known for its positive impact on well-being. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals have been studied in the literature to analyze these effects. Due to the non-stationary nature of EEG signals, Fourier transform-based methods are not suitable for extracting brain patterns. Thus, analyzing and detecting changes in brain patterns associated with the progression of meditation effects...
Psylocybina to psychoaktywny związek chemiczny występujący w grzybach z rodzaju Psilocybe, które zyskały znaczną popularność w ostatniej dekadzie ze względu na ich wpływ na neuroplastyczność, działanie serotoninergiczne oraz zdolność do tworzenia nowych połączeń między obszarami, które komunikowały się wcześniej ze sobą. Celem niniejszego badania jest ocena potencjalnych zastosowań psylocybiny...
CNS SpectrumsFebruary 19, 2025M. Koummati, J. Vrublevska, M. de Hert et al.
Background It has been reported that abnormal experiences could be common in the general “healthy” population, with the vast majority of individuals never proceeding to manifest a frank mental disorder. Aims This study aimed to quantify subthreshold psychiatric symptoms in the general population. Methods The protocol included clinicodemographic data and a mental symptoms questionnaire, and...
Muchomor czerwony (A. muscaria) powszechnie uważany jest za gatunek trujący i wykazujący działanie psychodeliczne. Pacjenci zgłaszają się po jego spożyciu do szpitala z objawami takimi jak splątanie, zawroty głowy, pobudzenie i ataksja. Rzadziej mogą wystąpić nudności, biegunka, wymioty, tachykardia, bradykardia, nadciśnienie, hipotermia lub hipertermia i kwasica metaboliczna, zdarzają się...
This study aims to evaluate the long-term impact of the six-week online mindfulness intervention course "Mindfulness Living With Challenge (MLWC)" on the mental health of undergraduate nursing students in Beijing, China, through a three-month follow-up. A three-month follow-up was conducted upon completion of the six-week MLWC course. Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale (DASS-21), Chinese Short...
CureusFebruary 19, 2025Paria Parhami, Sydney E Moriarty, Jay Parikh et al.
N, N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a potent hallucinogenic compound with increasing recreational use despite limited safety data. While DMT use has been linked to psychosis, delusional parasitosis as a specific manifestation remains unreported. We present a novel case of a 60-year-old female veteran with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a history of major depressive disorder, past...