Molecular Psychiatry
June 1, 2023
Jiahe Zhang, Jovicarole Raya, Francesca Morfini et al.
65 citations
Adolescents experience alarmingly high rates of major depressive disorder (MDD), however, gold-standard treatments are only effective for ~50% of youth. Accordingly, there is a critical need to develop novel interventions, particularly ones that target neural mechanisms believed to potentiate depressive symptoms. Directly addressing this gap, we developed mindfulness-based fMRI neurofeedback...
Mental health & prevention
June 1, 2023
Lily Garcia, Shea E Ferguson, Leslie Facio et al.
17 citations
This pilot study aimed to explore the intersection of mindfulness, physical activity, and mental well-being within higher education populations during the COVID-19 pandemic. College students, faculty, and staff (n = 34) from a public university participated in the study during spring, summer, and fall 2021. All participants wore a Fitbit for two weeks and were assigned to a treatment group (n =...
Cureus
June 1, 2023
Aneeque Jamil, Sai Dheeraj Gutlapalli, Marya Ali et al.
46 citations
This article discusses the power of meditation and how beneficial it is for the body. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has shown many positive brain changes and improved several brain functions. Meditation has several benefits improving the immune system and inflammatory processes by decreasing cytokine; appropriate telomere shortening also has helped healthy aging. Regarding physical health,...
Mental health science
June 1, 2023
Lana Ruvolo Grasser, Hilary A Marusak
15 citations
As the prevalence of childhood and adolescent anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns continues to rise, there has been an unprecedented increase in support of mind-body practices like yoga, dance, meditation, mindfulness, aerobic exercise, and more-in part driven by the mental health burden imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. While a growing body of evidence supports the safety and...
Journal of Clinical Hypertension
May 31, 2023
Haifei Shen, Ri Zhang, Xiujie Zhang et al.
7 citations
To explore the moderating effect of mindfulness on the relationship between anxiety and somatization symptoms in middle-aged and elderly female patients with hypertension and provide a foundation for the development of more effective mindfulness intervention strategies. A total of 109 middle-aged and elderly female patients with hypertension participated in this cross-sectional study from April...
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
May 31, 2023
Kemei Wu, Miaomiao Wan, Huiqin Zhou et al.
ObjectiveTo investigate the clinical effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) intervention combined with early cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) assisted with an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP).MethodsA total of 100 AMI patients with IABP assistance due to hemodynamic instability at Wuhan Asia Heart Hospital were enrolled in the study....
Frontiers in Psychology
May 31, 2023
A brief body scan mindfulness practice has no positive effect on the recovery of heart rate variability and cognitive tasks in female professional basketball players.
Journal of Clinical Medicine
May 31, 2023
Karin Matko, Meike Burzynski, Maximilian Pilhatsch et al.
5 citations
Chronic pain is a growing worldwide health problem and complementary and integrative therapy options are becoming increasingly important. Multi-component yoga interventions represent such an integrative therapy approach with a promising body of evidence. The present study employed an experimental single-case multiple-baseline design. It investigated the effects of an 8-week yoga-based mind-body...
Journal of Telenursing
May 30, 2023
Annisa Mazda Firdaus, Dian Ratna Sawitri, Meidiana Dwidiyanti
1 citation
This study aims to identify the effectiveness of mindfulness interventions on mental health conditions in adolescents. The method used is a systematic literature review with seven national and international research articles reviewed utilizing the search engines PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, and Google Scholar within the last six years. The research results from the identification of 7...
Clocks & Sleep
May 30, 2023
Marco Fabbri
6 citations
During the COVID-19 lockdown, a distortion of time passage has been widely reported in association with a change in daily rhythm. However, several variables related to these changes have not been considered. The purpose of the present study was to assess the changes in dispositional mindfulness, time experience, sleep timing and subjective memory functioning. A longitudinal study was conducted...
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
May 30, 2023
Ioulietta Lazarou, V. Oikonomou, Lampros Mpaltadoros et al.
Objectives Meditation imparts relaxation and constitutes an important non-pharmacological intervention for people with cognitive impairment. Moreover, EEG has been widely used as a tool for detecting brain changes even at the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The current study investigates the effect of meditation practices on the human brain across the AD spectrum by using a novel...
Addictive Behaviors
May 29, 2023
Michelle M Hospital, Maria Eugenia Contreras Perez, Sheila M Alessi et al.
The age cohort referred to as emerging adults (ages 18-29 years old) demonstrates the most hazardous alcohol use in the United States (U.S.) Approximately one-third of emerging adults regularly engage in heavy episodic drinking (4/5 drinks in two hours females/males). Compared to their non-Latine White peers, Latine emerging adults in the U.S. report lower rates of heavy episodic drinking (HED)...
Journal of Advanced Nursing
May 29, 2023
Yihong Leow, Nur Lidiya Binte Abdul Rashid, Piyanee Klainin‐Yobas et al.
Aims: To evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on mental and cognitive outcomes including, anxiety, depression, attention, memory, global cognition and neuroplastic changes in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data source: A three-step search strategy was conducted on eight electronic databases, grey...
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
May 29, 2023
Óscar Lecuona, Jennifer E. Moreno‐Jiménez, Luz Sofía Vilte et al.
4 citations
Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a common damaging phenomenon in musicians' careers. Mindfulness stands as a promising construct to prevent MPA. However, the relationships between mindfulness and MPA are scarcely explored, alongside other relevant attention-based (e.g., self-consciousness) or emotion-based constructs (e.g., negative affect). This study explores the relationships between these...
Pakistan Journal of Social Research
May 29, 2023
Anum Sarfraz, Salma Siddiqui
1 citation
The empirical evidence for Mindfulness-based interventions is auspicious. The socio-economic factors and political strife in low-middle-income countries puts young adults at heightened risk, which calls for preventive interventions grounded in cultural context. This study culturally adapted a mindfulness-based intervention for young adults by using the Heuristic framework. The outcome measures...
International Journal of Professional Business Review
May 29, 2023
Rajeswari Arunachalam, P. Venugopal
Purpose: Working mothers are leading several industries, and they strive to balance work and family. Mothers at work face their biggest challenges and live with constant guilt when they leave their children. Due to this stressful lifestyle, working mothers struggle to regulate their emotional health and may exhaust themselves, breakdown, or burnout. They can manage this chaos with mindfulness....
Mindfulness
May 29, 2023
Otto Simonsson, Christine Bergljottsdotter, Jayanth Narayanan et al.
7 citations
While mindfulness in the workplace has received substantial scientific attention in the past decades, it is not yet well-understood if, under what circumstances, and in what ways mindfulness training may be helpful for individuals working in political environments. The aim of this study was to explore the experience of mindfulness training among British politicians, as well as mindfulness...
Medical Research Archives
May 26, 2023
Neeraj Panwar, Nupur Agarwal, Shivani Tanwar
Background: Adolescence is a phase blended with various challenges and changes. How someone takes these challenges and accepts the changes (physically, emotionally, or psychologically) are the major concerns of social scientists. Objective: Keeping that objective in mind, current research has been done to assess if emotional regulation leads to impulsivity and anxiety through the moderating...
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
May 26, 2023
J Corey Williams, Janaíre Hawkins
Amid rising national rates of childhood depression and anxiety,1,2 the development and accessibility of therapeutic psychosocial interventions for children have taken on paramount importance. Given the limited bandwidth of the existing clinical mental health services nationally, there is also an imperative to integrate therapeutic interventions within nonclinical, community-based settings (eg,...
Applied Science and Innovative Research
May 26, 2023
M. Rossetto
Mindful meditation is bedeviled by the tendency of the meditators mind to wander away from concentrating on the breath, or other focus, and wandering to random subjects stimulated by memories and distractions. The underling goal of meditation training is to learn how to silence the incessant chatter of the unfocused mind, Poetically referred to as the monkey mind, to enable being in the...