Scientific Reports
April 16, 2020
Sage K. Iwamoto, Marcus Alexander, Mark Torres et al.
Clinical evidence suggests that mindfulness meditation reduces anxiety, depression, and stress, and improves emotion regulation due to modulation of activity in neural substrates linked to the regulation of emotions and social preferences. However, less was known about whether mindfulness meditation might alter pro-social behavior. Here we examined whether mindfulness meditation activates human...
American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
April 11, 2020
Anoop Poomadam
Psychology today stands at a threshold. After a century of remarkable discoveries, it remains marked by fragmentation: cognition is studied apart from emotion, behavior apart from intention, and clinical methods apart from the cultural and ecological worlds in which persons live. What is often missing is a science that treats the human being as an indivisible whole. This paper introduces...
April 9, 2020
S. Pizzoli, Chiara Marzorati, D. Mazzoni et al.
BACKGROUND Psychophysiological stress and decreased well-being are relevant issues during prolonged social isolation periods. Relaxation practices may represent helpful exercises to cope with anxiety and stressful sensations. OBJECTIVE The aim of this research protocol is to test whether remote relaxation practices such as natural sounds, deep respiration, and body scan meditation promote...
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
April 9, 2020
Claudia Daudén Roquet, Corina Sas
Much research on meditation has shown its significant benefits for wellbeing. In turn, there has been growing HCI interest for the design of novel interactive technologies intended to facilitate meditation in real-time. In many of these systems, physiological signals have been mapped onto creative audiovisual feedback, however, there has been limited attention to the experiential qualities of...
Scientific Reports
April 8, 2020
Rafael González-Moret, Ausiàs Cebolla, X. Cortés et al.
Mindfulness-based interventions have shown some efficacy in decreasing stress levels and improving quality of life. However, so far, only a few studies have studied this type of intervention among patients with inflammatory bowel disease and none of them have studied their effects on inflammatory biomarkers. This current study was a two-armed, single-centre, randomised (2:1 ratio) controlled...
Neurogastroenterology & Motility
April 7, 2020
Bruce Naliboff, Suzanne R. Smith, J. G. Serpa et al.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common and often debilitating chronic gastrointestinal disorder characterized by abdominal pain and altered bowel habits. Pharmacological treatments are often ineffective, leading to the development of a variety of behavioral interventions. Mindfulness‐based stress reduction (MBSR) is one such program that has shown efficacy in reducing gastrointestinal (GI)...
Phenomenology, Humanities and Sciences
April 6, 2020
Andrea Loss Nunes, Mariane Lima de Souza
A Meditação Mindfulness vem sendo associada ao aumento do bem-estar subjetivo, à redução da reatividade emocional e à regulação do comportamento. Por sua vez, a Gestalt-terapia, tradicionalmente, tem a autoconsciência e a experiência presente no aqui e agora compondo sua proposta teórico-prática. Nesse sentido, o objetivo deste estudo foi identificar possibilidades de interlocução...
Society Register
April 6, 2020
Geeta Shyam
The scale of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to adversely affect the mental health of a large number of people. In this Note, the author shares her strategies for dealing with uncertainty and anxiety. Recounting her personal experiences, she reveals how simple breathing exercises and meditation practices helped her accept and respond to a traumatic experience as well as...
PLoS One
April 3, 2020
Ahmed M Alzahrani, Ahmed Hakami, Ahmad Alhadi et al.
There is a growing body of research that shows a significant association between mindfulness and mental health. However, studies on Saudi populations are still in their infancy. Mindfulness is a personal tendency to focus on the present time in a non-judgmental manner, including the interior and exterior experience of feelings and events. The first aim of this study is to examine the...
April 2, 2020
Norman A. S. Farb
This definition is laudable in many waysit casts a distinctively social lens upon wisdom, arguing that to be wise is to consider and at balance the common good against selfinterest. It requires that such consideration be excellent, which presumably allows for measurable, “gold standard” processes and outcomes. It also proposes that metacognition is a hallmark of wise reasoning (perspectival...
April 2, 2020
G. McDowell, Jahnavi Valleru, M. Adams et al.
ABSTRACT Anxiety is common in adolescents, when acuity spikes, higher intensity services may be required. However, it can be challenging to retain these adolescents in ongoing care once a crisis resolves. The aim of this quality improvement study was to evaluate within the crisis management segment of our behavioral health-care system the potential benefit of a mindful movement intervention for...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
April 2, 2020
A distinctive feature common to many contemplative practices is a focus of attention and procedure of induction toward achieving an altered state of consciousness. In recent years, practices like mindfulness have become increasingly popular, and there has been increased interest in the relationship between hypnosis and mindfulness-based practices as well as other contemplative practices...
Journal of Mental Health
April 2020
Jessica M. Brooks, Veronica Muller, Jennifer Sánchez et al.
Background: Depressive symptoms complicate pain management for people with FM, with adverse consequences such as a greater need for pain medications and limited pain coping strategies. Determining risks and protective factors associated with depressive symptoms in persons with FM could inform the development and implementation of mental health interventions.Aims: To formulate and test a...
Journal of Attention Disorders
April 2020
Lotte Janssen, Alicia M De Vries, Sevket Hepark et al.
Objective: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a promising psychosocial intervention for adult ADHD. The feasibility and effectiveness of an adapted MBCT program is explored, together with the possible process of change. Method: Mixed-method study with 31 ADHD patients participating in an adapted MBCT program. Self-report questionnaires on ADHD symptoms, executive functioning,...
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
April 1, 2020
Sucharit Katyal, Greg Hajcak, Tamara Flora et al.
Contemplative practices are thought to modify one's experience of self and fundamentally change self-referential processing. However, few studies have examined the brain correlates of self-referential processing in long-term meditators. Here, we used the self-referential encoding task (SRET) to examine event-related potentials (ERP) during assessment of pleasant and unpleasant self-views in...
Psychological Reports
April 1, 2020
Chieko Fujisaki
AEON-HO (Altering emotional organization-holistic operation) contains methods of Naikan therapy and mindfulness. Naikan and mindfulness are originally from Buddhism tradition, and they have a high affinity. AEON-HO was conceptualized to improve attachment issues and the growth of self-actualization, because Naikan and mindfulness are known to be effective for attachment issues but partially if...
Mindfulness
April 1, 2020
Ivan Nyklíček
Abstract: Objectives: Meditation may be viewed as a way to enhance mindfulness and self-awareness. To date, most studies have relied on instruments based on self-evaluations. The aim of this study was to explore aspects of self-awareness in experienced meditators compared to non-meditators using a multi-method approach. Methods: Thirty-five experienced meditators and 47 matched control...
Pediatrics
April 1, 2020
A. Weitlauf, Neill Broderick, J. A. Stainbrook et al.
This study examined whether parents of children with ASD reported better functioning if they received stress-reduction training as part of early behavioral intervention. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Systems of care emphasize parent-delivered intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Meanwhile, multiple studies document psychological distress within these parents. This pilot...
Journal of Clinical Medicine
April 1, 2020
G. L. Torre, Antonino Raffone, Margherita Peruzzo et al.
Mindfulness-based interventions have emerged as unique approaches for addressing a range of clinical and subclinical difficulties such as stress, chronic pain, anxiety, or recurrent depression. Moreover, there is strong evidence about the positive effects of yoga practice on stress management and prevention of burnout among healthcare workers. The aim of this study was to conduct a single-arm...
April 1, 2020
N. Pradeep, S. Kannan, V. Gopichandran
Background: Mindfulness-based meditation has been shown to reduce stress and even reduce pain in chronic pain conditions. Objective: To study the effect of mindfulness-based meditation on pain and psychosocial wellbeing among patients living with chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions. Methods: We conducted a quasi-experimental pre-post comparison study among 15 patients suffering from various...