Journal of Clinical Psychology
November 2021
Aurélie Docteur, Philip Gorwood, Christine Mirabel-Sarron et al.
This study aims to investigate the impact of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for bipolar disorders on emotional responses by using skin conductance recording, and to investigate a mediating or predictive effect of cognitive reactivity. Sixty-seven patients with bipolar disorder were assessed at baseline, pre-MBCT and post-MBCT. After answering inventories regarding depression and...
Journal of Clinical Oncology
November 1, 2021
Julienne E Bower, Ann H Partridge, Antonio C Wolff et al.
Younger women are at risk for depression and related symptoms following breast cancer. The Pathways to Wellness study, a randomized, multi-institution, three-arm trial, tested the efficacy of two behavioral interventions for younger breast cancer survivors with elevated depressive symptoms: mindful awareness practices (MAPs) and survivorship education (SE) (Clincaltrials.gov identifier:...
Journal of Psychosomatic Research
November 1, 2021
R. L. Roberts, K. Ledermann, E. Garland
OBJECTIVE Long-term opioid therapy presents health risks for people with chronic pain. Some chronic pain patients escalate their opioid dose to regulate negative emotions. Therefore, emotion regulatory strategies like reappraisal are key treatment targets for this population. Mindfulness has been shown to enhance reappraisal, but the mechanisms of action are unknown. This study was a secondary...
Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging
November 1, 2021
Tina Chou, Darin D. Dougherty, Andrew A. Nierenberg et al.
Individuals with bipolar disorder (BP) show abnormalities in the default mode network (DMN), a brain network active at rest and during self-referential cognition. In healthy individuals, the DMN is anti-correlated (strongly negatively correlated) with the task positive network (TPN), a brain network that is active during attention demanding tasks. Mindfulness has been linked to changes in DMN...
Gadjah Mada Journal of Professional Psychology
November 1, 2021
Ardi Primasari, Kwartarini Wahyu Yuniarti
Adolescents often deal with pressures either from the internal or external environment that might trigger psychological issues related to behavior, emotion, academic achievement, and interpersonal relation. Specific intervention is particularly needed to improve adolescents’ subjective well-being in such situations. This research aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the Adolescent...
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
November 1, 2021
A. Kim, M. Jang, M. Sun
Mindfulness-based stress reduction programs have been found to be effective in reducing the stress response and improving the psychological wellbeing of various populations. We aimed to confirm the effects of a mindfulness-based stress reduction program on perceived stress, heart rate variability, positive and negative affect, and subjective wellbeing of community-dwelling people with...
International Conference on Information Technology in Medicine and Education
November 1, 2021
Min Huang, Lizhen Ye, Junze Chen et al.
Meditation has been shown as an efficient way to promote human well-being. Most studies focused on meditation in sitting posture. However, meditation in walking posture was rarely studied. In order to identify these two meditation states (i.e., sitting and walking), we proposed a classification framework by leveraging different features extracted from the EEG signals and the random forest...
Neuroscience Letters
November 1, 2021
Prisca R. Bauer, C. Sabourdy, Benoit Chatard et al.
PURPOSE Intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) offers a unique window on brain dynamics with excellent temporal and spatial resolution and is less prone to recording artefacts than surface EEG. This study used a within-subject design to explore the feasibility to compare iEEG data during mind wandering, mindfulness meditation and hypnosis. RESULTS Three patients who had iEEG for clinical...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
November 1, 2021
S. Katyal, P. Goldin
Abstract Meditation training is proposed to enhance mental well-being by modulating neural activity, particularly alpha and theta brain oscillations, and autonomic activity. Although such enhancement also depends on the quality of meditation, little is known about how these neural and physiological changes relate to meditation quality. One model characterizes meditation quality as five...
Mindfulness
November 1, 2021
Bhikkhu Anālayo
AbstractA recent surge of interest in equanimity as an important and transformative dimension of the cultivation of mindfulness can benefit from discerning different types of equanimity recognized in the Buddhist traditions, such as between equanimity as a divine abode or immeasurable and equanimity as the absence of compulsive reactivity by way of likes and dislikes. In order to provide an...