2022
Nadia R. P. W. Hutten
Chapter 2Cocaine enhances figural, but impairs verbal 'flexible' divergent thinking 15 Chapter 3 A single dose of cocaine enhances prospective memory performance 43 Chapter 4 Mood and cognition after administration of low LSD doses in healthy volunteers: a placebo controlled dose-effect finding study 65 Chapter 5 Low doses of LSD acutely increase BDNF blood plasma levels in healthy volunteers...
PLoS One
2022
Mengze Li, Lei Hao, Zhiting Ren et al.
Mirror-touch synaesthesia (MTS) refers to tactile sensations people have on their own body when they see another person being touched. This trait has been linked to individual differences in computing body awareness and ownership (e.g., on questionnaires, cognitive tests) as well as differences in the brain. Here it is assessed for the first time in a non-Western (Chinese) population. Study 1...
Applied Nursing Research
2022
V. Sulosaari, Eda Unal, F. Cinar
BACKGROUND There is a rising demand for methods to support well-being at work. Mindfulness-based interventions have the potential to enhance nurses' psychological well-being. PURPOSE To identify mindfulness-based interventions and outcome measures and to evaluate the effect on the psychological well-being of nurses. METHODS A systematic review following Prisma protocol with search of four...
United Research Forum eBooks
2022
Laila Jeebodh
1 citation
Background: More than 5.6 million Syrians have fled the country as refugees, and another 6.2 million people have been displaced within Syria (World Vision, 2018), creating the largest refugee and displacement crisis of our time.Research provided by Refugee Health (2011) reported that before being forced to flee, refugees may experience imprisonment, torture, loss of property, malnutrition,...
World Journal of Clinical Cases
2022
Jing Li, Yun-Yun Zhang, Xiao-Yin Cong et al.
Background: Mindfulness meditation is beneficial to mitigate the negative effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the general population, but no study examined such meditation in the COVID-19 patients themselves. Aim: To explore the short-term efficacy of mindfulness meditation in alleviating psychological distress and sleep disorders in patients with COVID-19. Methods:...
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
2022
A. Camargo, A. C. N. Torrá, A. P. Dalmagro et al.
Ketamine enhances the resilience against stress-induced depressive-like behavior, but its prophylactic efficacy in anxiety-related behaviors remains to be elucidated. Moreover, there is a need for developing novel preventive strategies against depressive- and anxiety-like behavior. AZD6765, a low-trapping NMDA receptor antagonist, shares with ketamine common molecular targets and produces...
2022
Matheus Lujan Pereira, Tânia Marcourakis
INTRODUÇÃO: Os psicodélicos são substâncias que afetam diversos processos cognitivos, causando alterações comportamentais e perceptivas. A psilocibina e seu metabólito ativo, a psilocina, foram identificados como os compostos psicoativos nos Laboratórios Sandoz em 1958 por Albert Hofmann. A psilocibina tem uma estrutura semelhante à serotonina, portanto acredita-se que ela tenha uma ação...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
January 1, 2022
Elizabeth Elsmore, Steven Hawks, Roberta May et al.
Despite increased interest in mindfulness practices such as yoga as an adjunct for depression, anxiety, and other chronic health concerns, little research exists on the potential benefits of yoga in therapeutic settings. As a complementary therapy, yoga provides a value-added benefit to traditional clinical practices for (1) clinicians as a form of self-care in treating compassion fatigue...
International Journal of Yoga
2022
Varun Malhotra, Ananyan Sampath, Danish Javed et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic has left an array of direct physical consequences unevenly on the elderly apart from leaving a wide range of indirect consequences of mental health problems on them. This study aims to understand the effect of a Yoga-Meditation based mobile phone application intervention to reduce the duress by mental health issues via a qualitative analysis. A phenomenological qualitative...
Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
2022
Amanda J Khan, Ellen Bradley, Aoife O'Donovan et al.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating, chronic disorder and efficacy rates of current PTSD treatments are underwhelming. There is a critical need for innovative approaches. We provide an overview of trauma and PTSD and cite literature providing converging evidence of the therapeutic potential of psilocybin for PTSD. No study to date has investigated psilocybin or...