International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
October 1, 2018
Daniela Curado, Viviam Barros, Emerita Opaleye et al.
Purpose: To investigate dispositional mindfulness, psychiatric symptoms, and their relationship with insomnia severity among female chronic hypnotic users. Methods: Observational, cross-sectional study, including 76 women with chronic hypnotic use. Participants completed several self-report questionnaires: sociodemographic characteristics, depressive symptoms (CES-D), anxiety levels (STAI-T),...
Journal of pediatric psychology
October 1, 2018
Samuel M Waldron, Jeremy Gauntlett-Gilbert, Elizabeth M. Marks et al.
Objective: Dispositional mindfulness is the general tendency to pay attention to present-moment awareness without judgment. The main aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine (a) whether dispositional mindfulness is associated with psychological distress in adolescents with chronic pain and low-level pain, and (b) whether it accounts for unique variance in distress after controlling...
Journal of neurosurgical anesthesiology
October 1, 2018
C. Andrade
K anesthesia was introduced about half a century ago. In recent decades, this drug, in subanesthetic doses, has also demonstrated efficacy for off-label indications including treating acute and chronic pain, treating agitation, treating depression, and inducing sedation. Thus, there are studies of subanesthetic dosing with ketamine for treating pain in emergency medicine settings, treating...
Semergen
October 2018
J Garzón de la Iglesia, M Caparrós de la Jara, J Fernández Horcajuelo
In this study an evaluation is made of the effectiveness and acceptability of a mindfulness program oriented towards individuals in an outpatient clinic. The program attended to people had mild anxiety, stress, mild depression, chronic pain, or those with problems coping with their chronic disease condition. The structured intervention was in 10 weekly 2 hour sessions. The study included 35...
Midwifery
October 2018
Adele Krusche, Maret Dymond, Susannah E Murphy et al.
Prenatal depression, stress and anxiety are significant predictors of postnatal depression and also have a direct negative impact on the family. Helpful psychological interventions during pregnancy are scarce and expensive, and usually only available for a small percentage of those suffering or deemed to be at risk. The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of an online mindfulness...
Sleep Medicine
October 1, 2018
Claudia Picard-Deland, Michelle Carr, Tyna Paquette et al.
Idiopathic nightmares are a common disturbance of rapid eye movement sleep (REM) sleep, but studies of comorbid pathologies and sleep architecture suggest that non-REM (NREM) sleep is also affected. Sleep spindles are a NREM sleep characteristic associated with both pathophysiology and sleep-dependent memory consolidation, yet they have not been evaluated in frequent nightmare recallers. The...
European Journal of Integrative Medicine
October 1, 2018
Julie Lynch, Lucia Prihodova, Pádraic J Dunne et al.
Abstract Introduction Meditation has attracted increased attention in the literature as a non-pharmacological strategy to foster positive mental health amongst the general population. This systematic review aims to summarise studies of mantra meditation (which includes Transcendental Meditation, TM®) to understand its potential value in fostering positive mental health and alleviating negative...
The Journal of Positive Psychology
September 30, 2018
Tim Lomas, Joan Carles Medina, Itai Ivtzan et al.
236 citations
Given the demanding nature of many professions, efforts are ongoing to develop initiatives to improve occupational wellbeing, including mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs). To assess the efficacy of MBIs, meta-analytic procedures were conducted on 35 randomized controlled trials derived from an earlier inclusive systematic literature search (covering all occupations, MBIs, and...
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
September 29, 2018
Holly Hazlett-Stevens
2 citations
Background: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an evidence-based intervention developed to teach mindfulness meditation to a wide range of patients. Although the efficacy of MBSR has been established for a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions, measured outcomes rarely include physical symptoms related to anxiety, depression, and/or stress. The current study presents a...
Journal of Neurochemistry
September 27, 2018
Francisco M Mouro, Joaquim A Ribeiro, Ana M. Sebastião et al.
Elucidating how cannabinoids affect brain function is instrumental for the development of therapeutic tools aiming to mitigate 'on target' side effects of cannabinoid-based therapies. A single treatment with the cannabinoid receptor agonist, WIN 55,212-2, disrupts recognition memory in mice. Here, we evaluate how prolonged, intermittent (30 days) exposure to WIN 55,212-2 (1 mg/kg) alters...