Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
July 1, 2025
Richard G. Hunter, Annelise Madison, Jonathon K. Lisano et al.
Introduction Inflammation has been implicated as an underlying pathology in negative affect and sleep disruption. Cannabinoids like delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) have demonstrated anti-inflammatory properties. This study aimed to assess if cannabis use altered cytokine concentration and whether inflammatory status moderated the influence of 4 weeks of cannabis use on...
Journal of Anxiety Disorders
July 1, 2025
Tomoko Kishimoto, Ximing Hao, Qiyu Bai
3 citations
Anxiety disorders are often characterized by excessive sympathetic activation and dysfunction. While breathing relaxation reliably reduces anxiety by dampening sympathetic activity and enhancing parasympathetic tone, the autonomic signatures underlying positive emotion interventions, such as savoring meditation, remain less understood. In this pilot randomized controlled trial, we recruited 44...
Veterinary medicine and science
July 1, 2025
Elisa Hernández-Álvarez, Lucas F Borkel, Jaime Rojas-Hernández et al.
3 citations
This pilot study explored the potential of microdosing 1-cyclopropionyl-d-lysergic acid diethylamide (1cp-LSD) to treat canine anxiety. A single-case study was conducted on a 13-year-old female dog with severe separation anxiety, who was treated with 5 µg of 1cp-LSD every 3 days for a month. Anxiety was assessed before, after, and 1 month following treatment using a validated questionnaire. The...
JMIR Research Protocols
June 30, 2025
Ravi Shankar, Anjali Bundele, Amartya Mukhopadhyay
8 citations
While traditional mindfulness-based interventions demonstrate effectiveness in improving mental health outcomes, their delivery methods face significant challenges related to accessibility and engagement. Geographic barriers to trained facilitators, time constraints for in-person sessions, and participant dropout rates of 15% to 30% due to perceived monotony limit intervention reach and...
International Journal of Applied Linguistics
June 26, 2025
Mojtaba Khatami, Ferdi Çelik, Raees Calafato et al.
This longitudinal study investigated the dynamic relationship between mindfulness and English‐speaking anxiety among 259 Bangladeshi undergraduates over a semester. Data were collected at three‐monthly intervals using the English Language Speaking Anxiety Scale and the Langer Mindfulness Scale, addressing four research objectives: (1) the cross‐sectional correlation between mindfulness and...
Interest : Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan
June 26, 2025
Mestiana Br. Karo, Tince Maria Hati Ndruru
Background: Taizé meditation is a form of meditative worship that fosters inner peace through repetitive chants and musical prayers. This practice is particularly beneficial for individuals experiencing anxiety. Anxiety itself is characterized by distressing and uncomfortable emotions that can disrupt a person's sense of equilibrium, manifesting as tension, restlessness, fear, nervousness,...
Clocks & Sleep
June 26, 2025
Y. Tanaka, Yuichiro Otsuka, Suguru Nakajima et al.
1 citation
Worsening adolescent mental health is a significant social issue. Although dreams may reflect one's mental state, few studies have focused on adolescents. Therefore, this study investigated the relationship between dream content and mental health, specifically anxiety disorder and depressive symptoms, among Japanese adolescents. This cross-sectional study obtained data on gender, grade, age,...
Scientific Electronic Archives
June 25, 2025
Maria Zografou, Athanasios Drigas, Alexandros – Stamatios Antoniou
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting millions of children globally, characterized by persistent patterns of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity. Beyond these core symptoms, children with ADHD frequently experience heightened levels of stress and anxiety. These emotional challenges can stem from difficulties in self-regulation,...
June 25, 2025
Mine Doğantan-Dack, László Stachó
Even though anecdotal evidence reveals them as ubiquitous phenomena, the performance anxiety dreams of music performers have not been studied systematically to date in scholarly research. This is all the more surprising given the large research literature on music performance anxiety as a wakeful experience, and the widely accepted “continuity hypothesis” in dream research that asserts...
Biological Psychiatry
June 25, 2025
Kevin G Mulvihill, Gemma J Cockcroft, Angela C Roberts
2 citations
Individual variability in pharmacological treatment efficacy remains a persistent obstacle to ameliorating clinical anxiety. This may originate, in part, from the different neural aetiologies underlying pathological anxiety. To provide novel insights into patient heterogeneity in anxiolytic responsiveness we compare the efficacy of distinct anxiolytic drugs, a Selective Serotonin Re-uptake...