Stress and Health
October 1, 2010
Woo Kyeong Lee, Hee Jeong Bang
AbstractThis study was conducted to develop a mindfulness and self‐compassion enhancement intervention for middle‐aged women who complained of emotional distress and to ascertain whether participation in the mindfulness‐based programme was associated with an increase in psychological well‐being and the improvement of psychological symptoms. The results showed that time by group interactions...
European Psychiatry
October 2010
B Weber, Françoise Jermann, Marianne Gex-Fabry et al.
The present open study investigates the feasibility of Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in groups solely composed of bipolar patients of various subtypes. MBCT has been mostly evaluated with remitted unipolar depressed patients and little is known about this treatment in bipolar disorder. Bipolar outpatients (type I, II and NOS) were included and evaluated for depressive and hypomanic...
Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
October 1, 2010
Janina Hülsebusch, Johannes Michalak
4 citations
Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Der Übungshäufigkeit wird im Rahmen der Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) eine große Bedeutung zugeschrieben. Fragestellung: Üben MBCT-Patienten den Vorgaben entsprechend und weisen Patienten, die häufiger üben, ein geringeres Rückfallrisiko auf? Methoden: Die Übungshäufigkeit der 24 ehemals depressiven Patienten wurde direkt nach der MBCT...
Psychiatry Research
September 16, 2010
Mindfulness based cognitive therapy for psychiatric disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Addiction
September 15, 2010
Carlo C. DiClemente
6 citations
Mindfulness training has become an integral part of treatment approaches for a variety of behavioral and emotional problems. Brewer and colleagues 1 identify rumination and stress coping as potential common etiological components in major depression and substance abuse disorders and then speculate upon how mindfulness coping, specifically attention and acceptance, address these components and...
Addiction
September 15, 2010
Anders Bergmark
3 citations
The paper by Brewer et al. [1] is based upon the assumption that there are common underlying mechanisms for depression and substance use disorders and the ambition is to provide a theoretical, clinical and neurobiological perspective that can frame the conceptualization and treatment of co-occurring depression and substance use disorders. The main starting point for this task is the meditation...
Archives of General Psychiatry
September 7, 2010
Gurpreet S Chopra, Marycie Hagerty, Charles S. Grob et al.
1,220 citations
CONTEXT: Researchers conducted extensive investigations of hallucinogens in the 1950s and 1960s. By the early 1970s, however, political and cultural pressures forced the cessation of all projects. This investigation reexamines a potentially promising clinical application of hallucinogens in the treatment of anxiety reactive to advanced-stage cancer. OBJECTIVE: To explore the safety and efficacy...
Substance Use & Misuse
September 2010
Valentina Lorenzetti, Dan I Lubman, Sarah Whittle et al.
In animal studies, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has been found to affect brain morphology, particularly within areas rich in cannabinoid receptors (e.g., hippocampus, cerebral cortex). While cannabis remains the most widely used illicit drug worldwide, there has been limited work investigating its effects on human brain tissue. In this paper, we conducted a systematic review of existing...
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
September 1, 2010
C. Gross, M. Kreitzer, William Thomas et al.
Context Patients who have received solid organ transplants continue to experience a myriad of complex symptoms related to their underlying disease and to chronic immunosuppression that reduce the quality of life. Beneficial non-pharmacologic therapies to address these symptoms have not been established in the transplant population. Objective Assess the efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Stress...
Brain Research Bulletin
August 30, 2010
Francisca Charliane Carlos Da Silva, Maria Do Carmo de Oliveira Cito, Maria Izabel Gomes Da Silva et al.
A growing body of evidence has pointed to the ionotropic glutamate N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDA) as an important player in the etiology of psychopathologies, including anxiety and major depression. Clinical findings suggest that ketamine may be used for the treatment of major depression. There is evidence that reactive oxygen species also play an important role in the pathogenesis of...