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...
eNeuro
2022
Mohammed H Sarikahya, Samantha Cousineau, Marta De Felice et al.
Despite increased prevalence of maternal cannabis use, little is understood regarding potential long-term effects of prenatal cannabis exposure (PCE) on neurodevelopmental outcomes. While neurodevelopmental cannabis exposure increases the risk of developing affective/mood disorders in adulthood, the precise neuropathophysiological mechanisms in male and female offspring are largely unknown....
JMIR Formative Research
2022
Jennifer Huberty, N. Bhuiyan, Taylor L Neher et al.
Background Mobile meditation apps may offer a long-term, accessible, and effective solution for ongoing symptom management in cancer patients/survivors. However, there are currently no commercial cancer-specific meditation apps that reflect cancer specialist expertise, input from cancer patients/survivors, and features and content specific to cancer patients’/survivors’ needs. Objective The aim...
2022
Timothy J. Honig
This project constitutes a systematic investigation of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) as a therapeutic method for working with persons who have depression.GIM is a music-centered integrative therapeutic method in which specially designed music programs facilitate client imagery experiences in non-ordinary states of consciousness.With the support of the therapist, these experiences provide...
Advances in Psychology, Mental Health, and Behavioral Studies
2022
Sindhu B. S.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is one of the latest mindfulness-based behavior therapies shown to have compelling evidence and efficacy with a wide range of clinical conditions. ACT is so hard to categorize that it is often described as an amalgamation of existential, humanistic, cognitive-behavioural therapy. ACT is often referred as process-based CBT and is one of the ‘third-wave' of...