2020
Jenna M Wilson, Audrey Weiss, Natalie J. Shook
Abstract Perceived social support has consistently been associated with better psychological well-being, but the pathway(s) through which social support increases positive psychological outcomes (e.g., life satisfaction) and reduces negative psychological outcomes (e.g., depression) remain unknown. Potentially, social support may encourage a more balanced, self-forgiving, and positive...
Critical Care Medicine
2020
Sam Parnia, Tara Keshavarz, M. M. Mullin
Introduction/Hypothesis: While many intensive care unit survivors report negative long-term psychological outcomes including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety, some report a positive transformational outcome associated with the recall of a unique cognitive experience, often referred to using the poorly defined term of near-death experiences (NDE). This aspect of ICU...
Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice
2020
Stephanie N. Williams, Monica M. Parkins, Breanne Benedict et al.
ABSTRACT This study examined the clinical utility of a meditation, mindfulness, and mantra intervention for youth experiencing serious mental illness while incarcerated. Participants were 17 adolescent males, aged 16 to 18, from two units of a county detention center in the San Francisco Bay Area. Eleven (64.7%) participants were Latino-American, one (5.9 %) was Black/African American, three...
Archive ouverte UNIGE
2020
Olga Vorontsova-Wenger
Le stress est omniprésent et est un des principaux facteurs affectant la santé mentale dans notre société. Le stress peut provoquer des troubles au niveau de l'intégrité physique, psychologique et sociale d'un individu. La littérature rapporte le taux élevé de stress et des symptômes psychopathologiques dans la population mondiale des étudiants. Nous avons évalué la présence de stress, de...
Mindfulness
2020
Oskari Lahtinen, Christina Salmivalli
Abstract: Objectives: The main effects of 8-week mindfulness-based programs (MBP) on anxiety and depression are now supported by reasonably robust evidence. However, few to no studies have looked at whether and how these main effects come to be over the course of the MBP. The goal of the present study was to look at how meditation practice predicted changes in well-being, and vice versa, at a...
Neural Plasticity
2020
Simeng Gu, Yawen Li, Fei Liang et al.
Mindfulness training has gained popularity in the scientific field and has been proposed as an efficient way for emotional regulation. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is designed especially for depressive people in reducing risk of depression relapse and is recommended in national guidelines as a treatment choice for relapse prevention in recurrent depression. The aim of the current...
PLoS One
2020
Tamara Leeuwerik, Kate Cavanagh, Elizabeth Forrester et al.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which includes Exposure and Response (ERP) is a highly effective, gold standard treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Nonetheless, not all patients with OCD significantly benefit from CBT. This has generated interest in the potential benefits of Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs), either integrated with CBT, to enhance engagement with ERP...
2020
A. Selamoglu, A. Malinowska, George Savulich et al.
Abstract This chapter reviews the literature on the effects of adolescent cannabis use on cognition, wellbeing and the neuroethical implications for societies across the globe. Given its widespread use and availability, cannabis use in adolescence may impact the developing brain, manifesting in cognitive, psychiatric, academic and social changes, thus raising neuroethical concerns. We review...
2020
Charles D. Nichols, P. Hendricks
Abstract Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in the study of classic serotonergic hallucinogens, now widely referred to as classic psychedelics. These studies include fundamental molecular and cellular neuroscience and pharmacology, neuroimaging, and psychological experiments. In the early days of classic psychedelic research during the 1950s through the 1970s, classic...
Sleep and Hypnosis
2020
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Previous research introduced the Nightmare Proneness Scale (NPS) as a measurement for nightmare proneness, the trait-like disposition to experience frequent nightmares. However, outside predicting nightmares, little is known about the structure of the scale or relationships of its facets with nightmares. The factor structure of the NPS and the scale's statistical independence from psychological...