Scientific Reports
April 20, 2022
Francesco Bossi, Francesca Zaninotto, Sonia D'Arcangelo et al.
Mindfulness interventions were shown to be effective in improving well-being and reducing perceived stress in several conditions. These effects were also found in online mindfulness-based training, especially in employees in organizational environments. The aim of this study was to test the effectiveness of an online mindfulness intervention on healthy employees, especially after the first...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
March 23, 2022
Richard Matzopoulos, Robert Morlock, Amy Morlock et al.
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Healthcare
March 15, 2022
Alicia Sánchez-pérez, Daniel Mendialdua-Canales, Miriam Hurtado-Pomares et al.
A person affected by Alzheimer's disease (AD) gradually loses the ability to perform activities of daily living and becomes dependent on caregivers, thereby having a negative impact on the caregivers' quality of life. There is evidence that suggests that interventions aimed at caregivers, such as mindfulness, may be effective at reducing this burden and emotional issues, such as depression and...
Journal of Affective Disorders
March 15, 2022
Sona Dimidjian, Julia Kaufman, Natalie Coleman et al.
To address the elevated prevalence of depression, suicide, and suicidal ideation, patients require increased access to effective interventions. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy has a strong evidence base in relapse prophylaxis and can be delivered digitally through Mindful Mood Balance (MMB). This study was a secondary analysis of the impact of MMB paired with usual depression care (UDC)...
Intelligent Medicine
March 7, 2022
Leah Vines, Diana Sotelo, Allison Johnson et al.
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Ketamine, a noncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist, has been exclusively used as an anesthetic in medicine and has led to new insights into the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders. Clinical studies have shown that low subanesthetic doses of ketamine produce antidepressant effects for individuals with depression. However, its use as a treatment for psychiatric disorders has been...
Der Nervenarzt
March 1, 2022
Gerhard Gründer, Manuela Brand, Laura Kärtner et al.
Psychedelics, such as psilocybin represent one of the most promising current therapeutic approaches in psychiatry. Psychedelics seem to have not only potent antidepressant effects. Do they also work particularly quickly, i.e. within one day? The available literature on clinical studies of psychedelics in depressive syndromes is presented both from the period up to the prohibition of these...
Behavioral Sciences
February 14, 2022
Aleeze Sattar Moss, Diane K. Reibel, Nancy Wintering et al.
There is a growing interest in the potential beneficial effects of mindfulness meditation training in protecting against age-related physical, emotional, and cognitive decline. The current prospective, single-center, single-arm study investigated if functional magnetic resonance imaging-based changes in cerebral blood flow and brain functional connectivity could be observed in 11 elderly adults...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
February 4, 2022
Amal A Alghamdi, Nora O Alafif, Ahmed S BaHammam et al.
Purpose: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic quarantine, university students were under various types of stressors, including the exams period, which might have affected their quality and quantity of sleep, and consequently, their quality of life. This study aimed to investigate the pattern and predictors of nightmares among university students and coinvestigate the presence...
Personality and Individual Differences
February 4, 2022
Jenna M Wilson, Carin A Colebaugh, K Mikayla Flowers et al.
Although an inverse relation between social support and psychological distress among chronic pain patients has been previously reported, little is known about what mediates this association. We examined mindfulness as a mediator of the relationship between social support and psychological distress. In this cross-sectional study, chronic pain patients (N=94) completed assessments of social...
Frontiers in Public Health
January 25, 2022
Jinlong Wu, Yudan Ma, Yifan Zuo et al.
Background: Studies have acknowledged that mindfulness exercise guided by a smartphone app has a positive impact on mental health and physical health. However, mindfulness guided by a smartphone app on mental health is still in its infancy stage. Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis evaluating the effect of mindfulness intervention guided by a smartphone app on negative emotions and stress...