The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
September 9, 2026
Friederike Holze, F Müller, Peter Gasser et al.
Abstract Background Anxiety disorders are a major health burden and current treatment options yield unsatisfactory results. Psychedelics, such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) that act via agonism on serotonin 2A receptors, have recently been shown to be effective in the treatment of anxiety symptoms. Aims & Objectives Here, we determine the relationship between the acute experience and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 4, 2026
Shiny Rahul
preprint
Introduction: In recent times, there is growing critical concern among IT professionals about theirpsychological well-being being affected by stress, anxiety, and poor sleep quality. Although severalpharmacological and clinical approaches are available, there is growing interest in accessible, nonpharmacological approaches that can be adopted into daily life. Mindfulness-based...
Mindfulness Across Disciplines [Working Title]
September 2, 2026
Fabiola Raffone
Background/context: Anxiety disorders are common in community mental health services and are frequently maintained by worry, rumination, threat monitoring, reassurance seeking, avoidance, and maladaptive attempts to control internal experience. Aim/objective: This perspective chapter examines Detached Mindfulness as a metacognitive technique for anxiety disorders and discusses its clinical...
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
September 1, 2026
Fikret Poyraz Çökmüş, Zeynep Tiftikçi, Osman İyilikçi et al.
Metacognition and mindfulness are central to contemporary accounts of anxiety, yet their comparative profiles across social anxiety disorder (SAD) and panic disorder (PD) remain insufficiently defined. The objective of this study is to compare metacognition and mindfulness across SAD, PD and healthy controls (HC) and to examine how these processes predict disorder specific severity. Adults with...
Drug Design, Development and Therapy
September 1, 2026
Xiaoying Cui, Wutao Chen, Jinyu Wang et al.
Purpose: Postoperative anxiety is common in surgical patients and may impair recovery, especially in the patients with preoperative anxiety. However, effective strategies for treating postoperative anxiety remain limited. We hypothesized that esketamine could reduce postoperative anxiety in patients with preoperative anxiety undergoing major abdominal tumor surgery. Patients and Methods: 180...
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
September 1, 2026
A Nunes, J E Cunningham, B Leden et al.
Abstract Background Use of intravenous ketamine or intranasal esketamine for depression is frequently limited due to resource requirements and cost. Alternative treatment models have used oral, sublingual or intranasal racemic ketamine, but optimal doses and frequency of administration remain unclear. Dosing modelled from the standard 0.5-1.0mg/kg twice weekly IV ketamine result in transient...
Cureus
September 2026
Hemachandran Ravikumar, Suresh Sathyanarayanan
Background Psychological stress contributes to mental health symptoms and cardiovascular risk through pathways involving anxiety, depression, cortisol secretion, autonomic dysregulation, and elevated blood pressure. Sound-based meditation is a nonpharmacological approach that may support stress management, but randomized controlled trial evidence remains limited. Objective The objective was to...
Sport Sciences for Health
September 1, 2026
Chiraz Goumni, Amayra Tannoubi, Aymen Hawani et al.
Abstract Background Competitive anxiety is a critical factor influencing performance in explosive, self-paced sports such as sprinting. Although mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches are increasingly used in sport psychology, evidence for their effects in young female track athletes remains limited. Purpose This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of an 8 week...
Research in Developmental Disabilities
September 2026
Tundi Loftus, Shu H. Yau, Sophia Soares et al.
Autistic children experience disproportionately high rates of anxiety, yet common interventions such as cognitive behavioural therapy and traditional mindfulness practices may be less effective due to their cognitive and abstract demands. Yoga nidra, a form of guided meditation using concrete visualisations and breath awareness, may offer a more accessible alternative. This mixed methods study...
August 31, 2026
George Pattison
With reference to Kierkegaard's religious writings and other pseudonymous works, Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety is explored with a primary focus on the book The Concept of Anxiety. Anxiety itself is shown to be the eminent term for a moment in the human being's psychological development that Kierkegaard also discusses in other terms. In particular, it is the mode in which human being's...