European Psychiatry
March 1, 2011
E.C. Sundin, Edo Shonin, William van Gordon et al.
Mindfulness meditation has been practiced in the Eastern world for more than 25 centuries but only recently it has become popular in the West. Today, therapeutic interventions such as ‘Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction’ are used within health services throughout Europe as a means of improving patient wellbeing. Whilst these interventions have proved successful in reducing stress and depression...
Attachment & human development
March 1, 2011
Szilvia Csóka, Péter Simor, Gabor Szabo et al.
Early maternal separation is a particularly stressful experience. Current models of nightmare production emphasize negative emotionality as having a central role in determining dream affect. Our aim is to test the hypothesis that persons who experienced early maternal separation (before one year of age and lasting at least one month) report more frequent nightmare experiences and bad dreams as...
Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation
March 1, 2011
Jih-Heng Li, Vickna Kasinather, Cheung et al.
146 citations
Ketamine, a derivative of phencyclidine that was developed in the 1960s, is an anesthetic and analgesic with hallucinogenic effects. In this paper, the pharmacological and toxicological effects of ketamine are briefly reviewed. Ketamine possesses a wide safety margin but such a therapeutic benefit is somewhat offset by its emergence phenomenon (mind-body dissociation and delirium) and...
BMC Public Health
February 24, 2011
Jenny Van Son, Ivan Nyklı́ček, Victor J. Pop et al.
52 citations
BACKGROUND: Approximately 20-40% of outpatients with diabetes experience elevated levels of emotional distress, varying from disease-specific distress to general symptoms of anxiety and depression. The patient's emotional well-being is related to other unfavorable outcomes, like reduced quality of life, sub-optimal self-care, impaired glycemic control, higher risk of complications, and...
Biological Psychiatry
February 3, 2011
Nanxin Li, Rong-Jian Liu, J. Dwyer et al.
Background Despite widely reported clinical and preclinical studies of rapid antidepressant actions of glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptor antagonists, there has been very little work examining the effects of these drugs in stress models of depression that require chronic administration of antidepressants, or the molecular mechanisms that could account for the rapid responses....
The Korean Journal of Clinical Psychology
February 1, 2011
Jungmo Kim
5 citations
본 연구는 만성우울증 재발방지를 위한 Segal, Williams와 Teasdale(2002/2006)의 MBCT 프로그램을 정서조절에 초점을 두어 수정보완한 정서조절 MBCT의 효과를 살펴본 것이다. 임상집단을 대상으로 정서조절곤란 및 부정적 정서와 관련된 인지양식, 우울, 불안에 대한 정서조절 MBCT의 효과를 확인하였다. 연구 결과, 약물치료와 MBCT를 병행한 참여집단(n = 9)은 약물치료만 받은 통제집단(n = 9)에 비해 마음챙김의 주의집중과 수용, 정서조절곤란, 인지회피, 반추적 반응, 우울, 불안, 에서 유의한 차이를 보여주었다. 참여집단의 사전과 사후의 변화에 대한 효과의 크기(d)를 분석한 결과, .72 - 1.51, 사전과 추수의 효과의 크기(d)는 .73 - 1.87이었으며,...
Pain
February 2011
Stefan Schmidt, Paul Grossman, Barbara Schwarzer et al.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a structured 8-week group program teaching mindfulness meditation and mindful yoga exercises. MBSR aims to help participants develop nonjudgmental awareness of moment-to-moment experience. Fibromyalgia is a clinical syndrome with chronic pain, fatigue, and insomnia as major symptoms. Efficacy of MBSR for enhanced well-being of fibromyalgia patients...
Synapse
February 2011
Sherry M Zakhary, Diana Ayubcha, Farah Ansari et al.
Ketamine exerts powerful anesthetic, psychotic, and antidepressant effects in both healthy volunteers and clinically depressed patients. Although ketamine targets particular glutamate receptors, there is a dearth of evidence for additional, alternative molecular substrates for the behavioral actions of this N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist drug. Here, we provide behavioral and...
Cognitive Therapy and Research
January 20, 2011
Catherine Crane, Rosie Winder, Emily Hargus et al.
47 citations
This study explored the immediate effects of a course of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for chronically depressed participants with a history of suicidality on the specificity of important goals for the future. Participants were randomly allocated to immediate treatment with MBCT or to a waitlist condition and life goals were assessed both before and after the treatment or waiting...
Journal of Clinical Psycology
January 15, 2011
Mohammad Narimani, Saeed Ariapooran, Abbas Abolghasemi et al.
9 citations
Introduction: Poor mental health is one of the psychological problems in chemical weapon victims. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of mindfulness and emotion regulation training on the mental health of chemical weapon victims. Method: An experimental design was conducted (pre-test, post-test and follow-up) with two experimental and one control groups. A sample of 47 chemical weapon...