Annual Review of Psychology
September 14, 2022
Linda E. Carlson
50 citations
This article provides an overview of the fields of psychosocial and integrative oncology, highlighting common psychological reactions to being diagnosed with and treated for cancer, including distress, anxiety, depression, fear of cancer recurrence and caregiver burden, as well as symptoms of fatigue, pain, and sleep disturbance. Patterns of symptomatology across the disease continuum are also...
Psychological Medicine
September 12, 2022
Rajiv Radhakrishnan, L. Pries, G. Erzin et al.
Abstract Background Empirical evidence suggests that people use cannabis to ameliorate anxiety and depressive symptoms, yet cannabis also acutely worsens psychosis and affective symptoms. However, the temporal relationship between cannabis use, anxiety and depressive symptoms and psychotic experiences (PE) in longitudinal studies is unclear. This may be informed by examination of mutually...
Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology
September 12, 2022
Kavita Golia
1 citation
This phenomenological research explored the fast-growing societal trend in psilocybin microdosing, whereby a sub-perceptual amount of the psychedelic is consumed regularly. Anecdotal reports of microdosing have suggested that individuals can experience the relief of depressive symptoms, greater creativity and focus, deeper connections, and improvements in several mental health issues. Research...
SLEEP Advances
September 10, 2022
Kenneth A Taylor, Skai W Schwartz, Amy C Alman et al.
Low back pain (LBP) disproportionately impacts US military veterans compared with nonveterans. Although the effect of psychological conditions on LBP is regularly studied, there is little published to date investigating nightmare disorder (NMD) and LBP. The purpose of this study was to (1) investigate whether an association exists between NMD and LBP and (2) estimate the effect of NMD diagnosis...
medRxiv
September 9, 2022
Devon Stoliker, Leonardo Novelli, Franz X. Vollenweider et al.
4 citations
preprint
Abstract Classic psychedelics alter sense of self and patterns of self-related thought. These changes are hypothesised to underlie their therapeutic efficacy across internalising pathologies such as addiction and depression. Using resting-state functional MRI images from a randomised, double blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial of 24 healthy adults under 0.215mg/kg psilocybin, we...
Journal of Nursing Management
September 8, 2022
Mohammed Munther Al-Hammouri, Jehad A. Rababah, Aida M. Alfurjani
7 citations
AIM: The current study aimed to examine if work-related factors, psychological variables and selected demographics predict mindfulness among Jordanian nurses. BACKGROUND: Mindfulness has been associated with various work-related variables. Studies examining mindfulness antecedents in nurses are scarce. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted to collect data from 173 nurses currently...
Frontiers in Psychology
September 8, 2022
Dawson Church, Amy Yang, Jeffrey Fannin et al.
5 citations
This study evaluated the biological dimension of meditation and self-transcendent states. A convenience sample of 513 participants was drawn from attendees at a 4-day guided meditation workshop. Half were randomly assigned to an active placebo control intervention. All were assessed on a variety of measures, both psychological [anxiety, pain, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), positive...
Translational Psychiatry
September 6, 2022
Tabea Schoeler, Jason Ferris, Adam Winstock
48 citations
Cannabis, a widely used psychoactive substance, can trigger acute cannabis-associated psychotic symptoms (CAPS) in people who use cannabis (PWUC). To assess rates and correlates of CAPS requiring emergency medical treatment, we analyzed data from an international sample of PWUC (n = 233,475). We found that 0.47% (95%CI 0.42; 0.52) PWUC reported lifetime occurrence of CAPS, defined as the...
bioRxiv Preprint Server
September 6, 2022
Tommaso Di Ianni, Matine M. Azadian, Sedona N. Ewbank et al.
2 citations
preprint
Subanesthetic ketamine rapidly and robustly reduces depressive symptoms in patients with treatment-resistant depression. While it is commonly classified as an N-methyl D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist, our picture of ketamine’s mechanistic underpinnings is incomplete. Recent clinical evidence has indicated, controversially, that a component of the efficacy of ketamine in depression may...
International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
September 5, 2022
Thao Phuong Nguyen
In the modern industrial world, high-end technologies and large-scale social institutions have resulted in a fundamental separation between individuals, as well as between humans and the living world. Nowadays, our lives seem to completely dependent on a man-made world ? the economy, electric power, cars and highways, and the medical system; consequently, we depend more on the techno sphere...