Frontiers in Psychology
November 30, 2022
Eve Ekman, Christopher J. Koenig, Jennifer Daubenmier et al.
5 citations
Contemplative science has made great strides in the empirical investigation of meditation practices, such as how mindfulness, compassion, and mantra practices impact health and well-being. However, meditation practices from the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition that use mental imagery to transform distressing beliefs and emotions have been little explored. We examined the “Feeding Your Demons”...
Medicine
November 25, 2022
Jiayu Xu, Manxue Mei, Haoxiang Sun et al.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is intimately linked to chronic stress. Meditation programs belong to mind-body therapies, which could benefit patients' disease management. Though some clinical trials have proved that meditation programs have the ability to improve level of blood glucose quality of life, body mass index and blood indexes related to metabolism in individuals with type 2 diabetes...
November 24, 2022
Robson Savoldi, Antônio Roazzi
preprint
Recent studies have assessed that the mystical alterations in sense of self are the best candidates for improvements in self-consciousness and the therapeutic potentials of ayahuasca’s rituals. Here, we examine the predictive relations of self-consciousness by mysticism and ego-dissolution self-reports. A cross-sectional study was drawn to investigate which self-consciousness traits – private...
Dhammavicaya Jurnal Pengkajian Dhamma
November 23, 2022
Valdi Haris, Surya R. Widya
1 citation
This study aims to determine the effect of meditation on helping reduce anxiety in patients with dark phobia (Nyctophobia). This study uses a quasi-experimental research method and the results of the study are presented descriptively with purposive sampling conducted to CV employees. Shanghai Kop Mitraraharja Relaxation which has a dark phobia (Nyctophobia). Based on the results of the study,...
Journal of Sleep Research
November 21, 2022
Bei Huang, Ji-Hui Zhang, Jing Wang et al.
Recurrent dream‐enactment behaviours (DEB) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep without atonia (RSWA) are two diagnostic hallmarks of REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD), a specific prodrome of α‐synucleinopathy. Whilst isolated RSWA (without DEB) was suggested as a prodrome of RBD, the implication of ‘isolated’ recurrent DEB remains under‐investigated. In this cross‐sectional study, we sought to...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
November 21, 2022
Maryam Farhang, Graciela Rojas, Pablo Martínez et al.
11 citations
BACKGROUND: There is a global agreement in the medical community that a significant proportion of dementia cases could be prevented or postponed. One of the factors behind this agreement comes from scientific evidence showing that mind-body interventions such as mindfulness and yoga for the elderly have been related to a range of positive outcomes, including improved cognition performance in...
Psychoactives
November 21, 2022
Rafael G. Dos Santos, Jaime E. C. Hallak
In the last two decades, an increasing trend has unfolded toward the possible beneficial uses of natural hallucinogenic substances for treating mental health disorders [...]
PLoS One
November 18, 2022
Mariam Mhanna, Christian-Joseph El Zouki, Abdallah Chahine et al.
Background Dissociative experiences are psychological manifestations characterized by a loss of connection and continuity between thoughts, emotions, environment, behavior, and identity. Lebanon has been facing indescribable events in the last few years, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Beirut explosion, a crushing economic crisis with the highest inflation rate the country has known in...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
November 16, 2022
Zhenwei Dai, Shu Jing, Hao Wang et al.
Objective: To evaluate the effect of mindfulness intervention on improving mental health among undergraduate nursing students during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in China. Methods: An online mindfulness intervention course named Mindfulness Living With Challenge (MLWC) was developed by the research team, and a randomized controlled trial using MLWC among Chinese...
Cureus
November 13, 2022
Berta Rita Martins Ramos, Ana Filipa Santos Martins, Eva Sofia Lima Osório
5 citations
Cannabis use has been associated with several psychiatric comorbidities and there appears to be a dose-response relationship between the intensity and duration of its use and the risk of psychosis. More commonly, acute episodes of cannabis induced-psychosis manifest immediately following exposure, are precipitated after the use of large amounts of cannabis, resolve with abstinence, and are of...