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Current Psychiatry Reports December 1, 2009
Newer variations of cognitive-behavioral therapy: behavioral activation and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.
Psycho-Oncology December 2009 Cecile A Lengacher, Versie Johnson-Mallard, Janice Post-White et al.
Considerable morbidity persists among survivors of breast cancer (BC) including high levels of psychological stress, anxiety, depression, fear of recurrence, and physical symptoms including pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbances, and impaired quality of life. Effective interventions are needed during this difficult transitional period. We conducted a randomized controlled trial of 84 female BC...
Central nervous system agents in medicinal chemistry December 1, 2009 María Elena Ayala
Serotonin, a biogenic amine, is present in significant amounts in many structures of the CNS. It is involved in regulation of a wide variety of physiological functions, such as sensory and motor functions, memory, mood, and secretion of hormones including reproductive hormones. It has also been implicated in the etiology of a range of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, and...
Revista de Antropologia da UFSCar December 1, 2009 Rafael G. Dos Santos
A ayahuasca é utilizada como sacramento de religiões como o Santo Daime, a Barquinha, a União do Vegetal e as suas dissidências. Nesses contextos, é geralmente preparada utilizando talos de Banisteriopsis caapi e folhas de Psychotria viridis, sendo seus principais alcalóides as beta-carbolinas harmina, tetrahidroharmina (THH) e harmalina e a triptamina dimetiltriptamina (DMT) (Callaway, 2005;...
Psychological Medicine November 27, 2009 Alberto Chiesa, Alessandro Serretti 752 citations
BACKGROUND: Mindfulness meditation (MM) practices constitute an important group of meditative practices that have received growing attention. The aim of the present paper was to systematically review current evidence on the neurobiological changes and clinical benefits related to MM practice in psychiatric disorders, in physical illnesses and in healthy subjects. METHOD: A literature search was...
Psycho-Oncology November 16, 2009 Kathryn A. Birnie, Sheila N. Garland, Linda E. Carlson 152 citations
OBJECTIVE: Cancer patients experience many negative psychological symptoms including stress, anxiety, and depression. This distress is not limited to the patient, as their partners also experience many psychological challenges. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programs have demonstrated clinical benefit for a variety of chronic illnesses, including cancer. This is the first study to...
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy November 13, 2009 Bryany Cusens, Geoffrey B. Duggan, Kirsty Thorne et al. 102 citations
Abstract Two studies of a mindfulness training programme are presented. Study 1 reports on a pilot investigation of the impact on well‐being of the Breathworks mindfulness‐based pain management programme. Significant positive change was found on self‐report measures of depression, outlook, catastrophizing and pain self‐efficacy in the Intervention Group, but not the Comparison Group....
Psychiatric Services November 2009 Scott B Patten, Graham Meadows
The study explored population-based service planning for mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). Evidence suggests the usefulness of MBCT in relapse prevention for individuals reporting three or more major depressive episodes. Depression data were from the Canadian Community Health Survey. A simulation model estimated recurrence rates and population sizes to sustain MBCT therapists (each...
Trends in pharmacological sciences November 2009 Phil Skolnick, Piotr Popik, Ramon Trullas
Depression is a chronic recurring illness that affects more than 120 million people worldwide. Drugs increasing the synaptic availability of serotonin and norepinephrine (biogenic amine-based agents) have been used to treat depression for more than 50 years. However, significant symptom improvement requires > or =2-4 weeks of treatment and a first course of therapy provides symptom relief to...
November 1, 2009 Christine Mirabel-Sarron, E. S. Dorocant, L. Sala et al.
Resume Plusieurs etudes ont montre l’efficacite de l’utilisation de la mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) dans la prevention des rechutes depressives chez le patient non bipolaire (Segal et al. [2001]), puis d’autres travaux ont explore les effets de cette approche sur les ruminations du sujet depressif (Teasdale [2000] ; Watkins, Teasdale, 2001). Cette etude pilote est la premiere qui...