Clinical neuropsychiatry
December 1, 2020
Federico J Gómez-Busto, Mario I Ortiz
12 citations
OBJECTIVE: Hallucinogenic substances or psychedelic drugs have been historically used by humans worldwide for centuries, and interest grows around them because of the therapeutic potential that they pose for mental disease. Virtual Reality (VR), has been highly developed and improved in the last decade, and it is also gaining importance due to their potential as therapeutic tools. In this...
Frontiers in Medicine
November 30, 2020
Marcelo Vasconcelos Mapurunga, Solange Andreoni, Daniela Rodrigues de Oliveira et al.
Introduction: Population aging is a global phenomenon that has grown rapidly and progressively all over the world. Interventions that promote health must be studied and implemented to make the aging process be with quality of life. Depression and anxiety are the most common mental health conditions that compromise the quality of life on the elderly and it can cause damage to the autonomy and...
Journal of Neuroscience
November 30, 2020
Danilo de Gregorio, Argel Aguilar-Valles, Katrin H. Preller et al.
258 citations
A revamped interest in the study of hallucinogens has recently emerged, especially with regard to their potential application in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. In the last decade, a plethora of preclinical and clinical studies have confirmed the efficacy of ketamine in the treatment of depression. More recently, emerging evidence has pointed out the potential therapeutic properties of...
medRxiv
November 27, 2020
Maria E Fini, William J. Tyler
5 citations
preprint
ABSTRACT The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) operates as an integrator of bottom-up and top-down signals and is implicated in both cognitive control and emotional processing. The dACC is believed to be causally involved in switching between attention networks, and previous work has linked it to cognitive performance, concentration, relaxation, and emotional distraction. The present...
JMIR Mental Health
November 27, 2020
Simon B. Goldberg, Ted Imhoff‐Smith, Daniel M. Bolt et al.
104 citations
BACKGROUND: A growing number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) suggest psychological benefits associated with meditation training delivered via mobile health. However, research in this area has primarily focused on mindfulness, only one of many meditative techniques. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of 2 versions of a self-guided, smartphone-based meditation app-the...
Sleep
November 27, 2020
Jessica R. Dietch, Daniel J. Taylor, Kristi E. Pruiksma et al.
STUDY OBJECTIVES Nurses are a group at high risk for nightmares, yet little is known about the rate of nightmare disorder and associated psychosocial factors in this group in part attributable to the lack of a self-report questionnaire to assess DSM-5 criteria for nightmare disorder. Aims of the current study were to 1) report on development and initial validity of a self-report measure of...
Psychology, Health & Medicine
November 26, 2020
Juhong Pei, Tong Ma, Rui-Lin Nan et al.
ABSTRACT Chronic pain is a significant public health problem with emotional and disabling factors, which may not completely respond to current medical treatments such as opioids. The systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to examine the effectiveness and safety of MBCT for patients with chronic pain. Database searches of PubMed, Medline, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, PsycINFO, Web of...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
November 26, 2020
Heba Diab, Benjamin Malcolm
1 citation
This case report describes a 39-year-old male with remote history of polysubstance use disorder and depression who developed tinnitus after use of inhaled N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT). Although development of ear ringing was attributed to use on a single occasion, tinnitus occurred within the context of a larger self-experiment involving weekly microdoses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)....
Frontiers in Psychiatry
November 26, 2020
Bénédicte Nobile, Emilie Olié, Philippe Courtet
2 citations
In their recent article entitled “Psychedelic Psychiatry's Brave New World,” Nutt et al. (1) wrote that new research on psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, has highlighted their potential for psychiatric disorder management. In the past decade, many studies focused on psilocybin effects on mood disorders (2) showing that it can significantly improve depressive symptomatology for weeks and...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
November 24, 2020
Eun Hee Jang, Yujin Hong, Yeji Kim et al.
Background: Firefighters are vulnerable to irregular sleep patterns and sleep disturbance due to work characteristics such as shift work and frequent dispatch. However, there are few studies investigating intervention targeting sleep for firefighters. This preliminary study aimed to develop and test a sleep intervention, namely FIT-IN (Firefighter's Therapy for Insomnia and Nightmares), which...