Chronic Stress
August 12, 2020
Alan K. Davis, Lynnette A. Averill, Nathan D. Sepeda et al.
83 citations
Background U.S. Special Operations Forces Veterans are at increased risk for a variety of mental health problems and cognitive impairment associated with military service. Current treatments are lacking in effectiveness and adherence. Therefore, this study examined psychedelic treatment with ibogaine and 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine for trauma-related psychological and cognitive impairment...
Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity
August 5, 2020
Benedetta Demartini, Veronica Nisticò, Roberta Tedesco et al.
Purpose: It has been widely shown that dissociative features might play a fundamental role in producing body image distortions in patients affected by eating disorders. Here, we hypothesize that the Mirror Gazing Test (MGT), a task consisting in mirror exposure in a condition of sensory deprivation, would elicit dissociative symptoms in a group of patients with anorexia nervosa (AN). Methods:...
August 4, 2020
Kartika Sari, S. Harkitasari, A. Primatanti
Stress is a psychologically depressed condition caused by unpleasant physical or psychological experiences. Prolonged stress adversely affect the physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual conditions of the body, with the ability to threaten its physiological balance. Stress management is an effort to control and reduce tension that arises along with situations that are difficult to be...
JAMA Network Open
August 1, 2020
Sapna Oberoi, Jiayu Yang, R. Woodgate et al.
Key Points Question Are mindfulness-based interventions associated with decreased anxiety in adults with cancer? Findings In this systematic review and meta-analysis of 28 randomized clinical trials with 3053 participants, mindfulness-based interventions were associated with reductions in the severity of anxiety in adults with cancer up to 6 months after delivery of mindfulness sessions...
Early Intervention in Psychiatry
August 1, 2020
Angela A T Schuurmans, Karin S Nijhof, Ron H. J. Scholte et al.
Many youth in residential care suffer from post-traumatic symptoms that have adverse effects on a range of psychological, behavioural and physiological outcomes. Although current evidence-based treatment options are effective, they have their limitations. Meditation interventions are an alternative to traditional trauma-focused treatment. This pilot study aimed to evaluate three game-based...
Brain Sciences
August 1, 2020
Alessandro Cicolin, Michele Boffano, Guglielmo Beccuti et al.
Both non-rapid eye movements and rapid eye movements sleep facilitate the strengthening of newly encoded memory traces, and dream content reflects this process. Numerous studies evaluated the impact of diseases on dream content, with particular reference to cancer, and reported the presence of issues related to death, negative emotions, pain and illness. This study investigates death and...
Frontiers in Psychology
July 31, 2020
Ciro Conversano, Rebecca Ciacchini, Graziella Orrù et al.
Health care professionals (HCPs) are a population at risk for high levels of burnout and compassion fatigue. The aim of the present systematic review was to give an overview on recent literature about mindfulness and compassion characteristics of HCPs, while exploring the effectiveness of techniques, involving the two aspects, such as MBSR or mindfulness intervention and compassion...
July 28, 2020
Niklas Serning, Nina Lyon
1 citation
Psychedelics are newly respectable. Evidence suggests that a variety of ills, from anxiety and depression to addictions and post-traumatic stress disorder, respond to them in a way hitherto unseen within psychiatry. The researchers involved have been careful to clean up the reputation of a class of drugs that, despite a wealth of promising evidence for their therapeutic effects in the 1960s and...
Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
July 23, 2020
K. Williams, Rebecca Elliott, S. Mckie et al.
Mindfulness-Based-Cognitive-Therapy (MBCT) reduces vulnerability for relapse into depression by helping individuals to counter tendencies to engage in maladaptive repetitive patterns of thinking and respond more compassionately to negative self-judgment. However, little is known about the neural correlates underlying these effects. To elucidate these correlates, we investigated fMRI brain...
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
July 23, 2020
Danilo de Gregorio, Joshua Dean Conway, Martha López-canul et al.
39 citations
BACKGROUND: Chronic exposure to the Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main cannabis pharmacological component, during adolescence has been shown to be associated with an increased risk of depression and suicidality in humans. AIMS: Little is known about the impact of the long-term effects of chronic exposure to low doses of THC in adolescent compared to adult rodents. METHODS: THC (1mg/kg...