Current behavioral neuroscience reports
October 9, 2015
Minkyung Park, Mark J. Niciu, Carlos A. Zarate
All currently approved antidepressant medications for major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder act primarily on the monoaminergic system and have varying affinities for serotonergic, norepinephrine-ergic, and/or dopaminergic receptors. Unfortunately, these drugs are only effective in approximately two-thirds of patients. Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the...
International Journal of Aviation Psychology
October 2, 2015
Anders Meland, Kazuma Ishimatsu, Anne Marte Pensgaard et al.
54 citations
Objective: This study sought to determine if mindfulness training (MT) has a measurable impact on stress and attentional control as measured by objective physiological and psychological means.Background: Periods of persistent, intensive work demands are known to compromise recovery and attentional capacity. The effects of 4-month MT on salivary cortisol and performance on 2 computer-based...
Psychological Inquiry
October 2, 2015
Eric L Garland, Norman A. S. Farb, Philippe R. Goldin et al.
228 citations
Over the past several decades, a corpus of research has emerged detailing the therapeutic outcomes and processes of mindfulness. The emergence of the field of contemplative science has given rise t...
Palliative & Supportive Care
October 2015
Michael Stephen Ball, Bryan Vernon
Our objective was to review how meditation could comfort the terminally ill. Our methodology was a literature search, which included books, journals, papers in collections, and online databases. The main search engines employed were Google Scholar and the Durham University Library. The main databases consulted were the Christian Meditation Centre, Project Meditation, and Stress-Related Facts...
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
October 2015
Johannes Michalak, Martin Schultze, Thomas Heidenreich et al.
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has recently been proposed as a treatment option for chronic depression. The cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy (CBASP) is the only approach specifically developed to date for the treatment of chronically depressed patients. The efficacy of MBCT plus treatment-as-usual (TAU), and CBASP (group version) plus TAU, was compared to TAU...
Archives of disease in childhood. Education and practice edition
October 2015
M Elena Garralda
Auditory hallucinations are uncommon paediatric presentations, but they can be alarming and lead to emergency consultations. This review outlines the phenomenology of auditory hallucinations, their assessment and clinical significance. Auditory hallucinations are seen in the course of acute medical disorders, often together with decreased levels of consciousness, as in febrile illness and in...
JBI database of systematic reviews and implementation reports
October 1, 2015
Elmarie Botha, Teri Gwin, Christina Purpora
The objective of this review is to identify the effectiveness of mindfulness based programs in reducing stress experienced by nurses in adult hospitalized patient care settings. Nursing professionals face extraordinary stressors in the medical environment. Many of these stressors have always been inherent to the profession: long work hours, dealing with pain, loss and emotional suffering,...
Neurology
September 29, 2015
Venus Tang, Wai S Poon, Patrick Kwan
To investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy (MT) and social support (SS) in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. We performed an assessor-blinded randomized control trial. Sixty patients with drug-resistant epilepsy were randomly allocated to MT or SS (30 per group). Each group received 4 biweekly intervention sessions. The primary outcome was the change in the total score...
September 15, 2015
Hakan Sarıcam
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to adapt the Self- transcendence Scale (Reed, 1991) to Turkish and to examine its psychometric properties. The study has two steps. The research was conducted on 517 participants who are 167 teachers and 350 university students in Sakarya University. The validity and reliability of scale was investigated by language equality, explanatory factor analysis,...
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
September 11, 2015
Elena Enosyreva, Anita E. Autry, Ege Ekavalali et al.
51 citations
Ketamine is a NMDA receptor antagonist that produces rapid antidepressant responses in individuals with major depressive disorder. The antidepressant action of ketamine has been linked to blocking NMDA receptor activation at rest, which inhibits eukaryotic elongation factor2 kinase leading to desuppression of protein synthesis and synaptic potentiation in the CA1 region of the hippocampus....