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Journal of Palliative Medicine December 1, 2009
The efficacy of mindfulness-based meditation therapy on anxiety, depression, and spirituality in Japanese patients with cancer.
Current Psychiatry Reports December 1, 2009
Newer variations of cognitive-behavioral therapy: behavioral activation and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.
Nuclear medicine communications December 2009 Dharma Singh Khalsa, Daniel Amen, Chris Hanks et al.
To examine changes in brain physiology during a chanting meditation practice using cerebral blood flow single-photon emission computed tomography. Single-photon emission computed tomography scans were acquired in 11 healthy individuals during either a resting state or meditation practice randomly performed on two separate days. Statistical parametric mapping analyses were conducted to identify...
The journal of nursing research : JNR December 2009 Ke-Ping Yang, Whei-Ming Su, Chen-Kuan Huang
Physical stress and mental stress are increasingly common phenomena in our rapidly changing and stressful modern society. Research has found meditation to produce positive and demonstrable stress reduction effects on brain and immune functions. This study is grounded in traditional Chinese philosophical mores that teach a process summarized by the keynote activities of "calm, still, quiet,...
Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health December 1, 2009
An adolescent's subjective experiences of mindfulness.
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...
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....
Thorax November 2009 E C Young, C Brammer, E Owen et al.
Chronic cough is common, and medical treatment can be ineffective. Mindfulness is a psychological intervention that aims to teach moment-to-moment non-judgemental awareness of thoughts, feelings and sensations. 30 healthy subjects and 30 patients with chronic cough were studied in two sequential trials. For both studies, cough reflex sensitivity to citric acid (C5) was measured on two...