Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
June 30, 2017
Athene K W Lee, David A Gansler, Nanyin Zhang et al.
Mindfulness is paying attention, non-judgmentally, to experience in the moment. Mindfulness training reduces depression and anxiety and influences neural processes in midline self-referential and lateralized somatosensory and executive networks. Although mindfulness benefits emotion regulation, less is known about its relationship to anger and the corresponding neural correlates. This study...
June 30, 2017
M. Kim, J. Heo, Wan-Suk Gim
Loving-kindness and compassion meditation (LKCM) is known to be effective in improving mental health and interpersonal relationships. An exploratory pilot study was conducted with the aim of examining the feasibility of LKCM which known to be effective in improving mental health and interpersonal relationships for pregnant women. Measures of stress, depression, maternal fetal attachment,...
Ponto Urbe
June 30, 2017
Danielli Katherine Pascoal Da Silva
5 citations
A partir de pesquisa de campo em preparos de Vegetal na UDV,notei que os efeitos da Hoasca não são atribuídos exclusivamente à Dimetiltriptamina (DMT) presente na Psychotria Viridis e nas betacarbolinas do Banisteriopsis Caapi, mas à mútua aprendizagem entre inteligências humana e Vegetal. Esta concepção assemelha-se com outras indígenas, nas quais a ayahuasca é vista como um Ser cuja ação...
Journal of rehabilitation medicine
June 28, 2017
Alexandra E W Hoogerwerf, Yvonne Bol, Jill Lobbestael et al.
Fatigue is the most common symptom in multiple sclerosis. Evidence-based treatment options are scarce. To study the feasibility and potential effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in severely fatigued multiple sclerosis patients. Non-randomized pilot study with a wai-ting list control period including 59 multiple sclerosis patients with severe fatigue. fatigue severity subscale...
Daru
June 28, 2017
Sanaz Jamshidfar, Yalda H. Ardakani, Hoda Lavasani et al.
5 citations
Nowadays MDMA (3,4-methylendioxymethamphetamine), known as ecstasy, is widely abused among the youth because of euphoria induction in acute exposure. However, abusers are predisposed to depression in chronic consumption of this illicit compound. Mirtazapine (MRZ), an antidepressant agent, may be prescribed in MDMA-induced depression. MRZ is extensively metabolized in liver by CYP450 isoenzymes....
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
June 26, 2017
B. R. Cahn, Matthew S. Goodman, C. Peterson et al.
Thirty-eight individuals (mean age: 34.8 years old) participating in a 3-month yoga and meditation retreat were assessed before and after the intervention for psychometric measures, brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), circadian salivary cortisol levels, and pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines. Participation in the retreat was found to be associated with decreases in self-reported anxiety...
Brain and Behavior
June 23, 2017
Yinghong Jiang, Yiqiang Wang, Xiaoran Sun et al.
63 citations
Abstract Objective This research was aimed to evaluate the behaviors of short‐ or long‐term antidepressant effects of ketamine in rats exposed to chronic unpredictable stress (CUS). Background Ketamine, a glutamate noncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist, regulates excitatory amino acid functions, such as anxiety disorders and major depression, and plays an important role in synaptic plasticity...
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
June 15, 2017
Adam Burke, Chun Nok Lam, Barbara Stussman et al.
Background: Despite a growing body of scientific literature exploring the nature of meditation there is limited information on the characteristics of individuals who use it. This is particularly true of comparative studies examining prevalence and predictors of use of various forms of meditation. Methods: A secondary analysis was conducted using data from the 2012 National Health Interview...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
June 14, 2017
Thomas Cody Swift, Alexander Belser, Gabrielle Agin-Liebes et al.
187 citations
Recent randomized controlled trials of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for patients with cancer suggest that this treatment results in large-magnitude reductions in anxiety and depression as well as improvements in attitudes toward disease progression and death, quality of life, and spirituality. To better understand these findings, we sought to identify psychological mechanisms of action...
Osteoarthritis and cartilage
June 2017
A C Lee, W F Harvey, L L Price et al.
Previous studies suggest that higher mindfulness is associated with less pain and depression. However, the role of mindfulness has never been studied in knee osteoarthritis (OA). We evaluate the relationships between mindfulness and pain, psychological symptoms, and quality of life in knee OA. We performed a secondary analysis of baseline data from our randomized comparative trial in...