The American journal of cardiology
March 1, 2000
C Cunningham, S Brown, J C Kaski
Chest pain with normal coronary angiograms is often associated with chronic sympathetic activation, anxiety, and depression, and is resistant to conventional antianginal treatment. The practice of transcendental meditation, a standard relaxation method for 3 months twice daily, significantly improved exercise tolerance, angina episodes, and quality of life in 9 women; the positive findings in...
Psychiatry
2000
P T Newell, R D Cartwright
Dream affect and cognition are examined in a 4-month longitudinal study of depressed, recently divorced subjects. Several measures of cognition in dream reports were used to determine whether remitting subjects were more likely to utilize certain cognitive strategies than nonremitters. No differences were found in the cognition between those who were remitting and nonremitting subjects. Levels...
Neural Networks
2000
J R Peláez
Pattern completion in a neural network model of the thalamus and a biologically plausible model of synaptic plasticity are the key concepts used in this paper for analyzing some cognitive disorders that involve hallucinations of several kinds: visual hallucinations in the Charles Bonnet syndrome and psychedelic drugs consumption, somatic hallucination in phantom limbs, cognitive hallucinations...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
2000
James Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal et al.
436 citations
Previous research on depressed and suicidal patients and those with posttraumatic stress disorder has shown that patients' memory for the past is overgeneral (i.e., patients retrieve generic summaries of past events rather than specific events). This study investigated whether autobiographical memory could be affected by psychological treatment. Recovered depressed patients were randomly...
Neuroreport
2000
Alex Gamma, Edi Frei, Dietrich Lehmann et al.
81 citations
Resting EEG during open and closed eyes and subsequent mood ratings were obtained from 15 Ecstasy users and 14 Ecstasy-naive controls. Absolute spectral power on the scalp, and the three-dimensional, intracerebral distribution of neuroelectric activity using low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) were computed. LORETA revealed global increases of theta, alpha 1 and beta 2/3...
Neuropsychobiology
2000
Fabrizio Schifano
83 citations
The present paper attempts to give an updated overview of the magnitude of the phenomenon of ecstasy abuse in Italy and other European countries. It gives an account of some clinical case studies and of a larger-scale report on polydrug (including MDMA) consumers attending our Public Health Addiction Treatment Unit in recent years, with a view to clarifying the characteristics and...
European Journal of Neuroscience
September 1, 1999
Viktor L. Arvanov, Xiaofu Liang, Angelo Russo et al.
64 citations
Abstract Both the phenethylamine hallucinogen (–)‐1‐2,5‐dimethoxy‐4‐bromophenyl‐2‐aminopropane (DOB), a selective serotonin 5‐HT 2A,2C receptor agonist, and the indoleamine hallucinogen d ‐lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD, which binds to 5‐HT1A, 1B, 1D, 1E, 1F, 2A, 2C, 5, 6, 7, dopamine D 1 and D 2 , and α 1 and α 2 adrenergic receptors), but not their non‐hallucinogenic congeners, inhibited...
Curationis
June 1999
H Heathcote, A Gmeiner, M Poggenpoel
No research has previously been done regarding the phenomenon of adolescents who have previously been involved in Satanism and who experience obstacles in their strive for mental health. Adolescents previously involved in Satanism present behavioral problems like aggressive outbursts, depression, "psychosis" or suicide attempts, that could lead to suicide. In the phenomenon-analysis...
Journal of Health Psychology
May 1, 1999
Jean L. Kristeller, C. Brendan Hallett
681 citations
The efficacy of a 6-week meditation-based group intervention for Binge Eating Disorder (BED) was evaluated in 18 obese women, using standard and eating-specific mindfulness meditation exercises. A single-group extended baseline design assessed all variables at 3 weeks pre-and post-, and at 1, 3, and 6 weeks; briefer assessment occurred weekly.Binges decreased in frequency, from 4.02/week to...
Psychopharmacology
February 1, 1999
Margaret Haney, Amie S Ward, S D Comer et al.
Symptoms of dependence and withdrawal after the frequent administration of high doses (210 mg/day) of oral delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) have been reported, yet little is known about dependence on lower oral THC doses, more relevant to levels attained by smoking marijuana. In a 20-day residential study, male (n = 6) and female (n = 6) marijuana smokers worked on five psychomotor tasks...