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JMIR Research Protocols January 28, 2020
Assessing Whether Meditation Improves Quality of Life for Adolescent Girls With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Journal of Clinical Psychology January 24, 2020 J. R. Yela, Antonio L Crego, M. Gómez-Martínez et al.
OBJECTIVE Despite consistent evidence for the beneficial effects of meditation on mental health, little is known about the mechanisms that make mindfulness meditation effective. METHOD The levels of mental health, self-compassion, presence of meaning in life, and experiential avoidance of meditators (n = 414) and nonmeditators (n = 414) were measured and compared. Bootstrap-based structural...
arXiv Preprint Archive January 23, 2020 Zosia A. C. Krusberg, Andrew Feldman, Elam Coalson preprint
One of the objectives of the undergraduate physics curriculum is for students to become aware of the connections between formal physical principles and personal experience. However, research has shown that awareness of connections between the abstract and the experiential tends to deteriorate, sometimes significantly, following instruction in undergraduate physics courses. Although this...
Frontiers in Psychology January 23, 2020 Elizaveta Solomonova, Simon Dubé, Cloé Blanchette-Carrière et al. 9 citations
Aim: Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, and sleep spindles are all implicated in the consolidation of procedural memories. Relative contributions of sleep stages and sleep spindles were previously shown to depend on individual differences in task processing. However, no studies to our knowledge have focused on individual differences in experience with Vipassana...
Electronic Physician January 22, 2020 Mostafa Haghshenas, Fatemeh Assarian, Abdollah Omidi et al.
Background: Diseases with a chronic and debilitating nature, such as chronic kidney disease, are frequently associated with psychiatric disorders like anxiety and depression. Objective: To assess the efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on anxiety and depression in hemodialysis patients. Methods: In this randomized clinical trial, fifty hemodialysis patients were selected from...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience January 22, 2020 Takuma Miyoshi, Kensuke Tanioka, Shoko Yamamoto et al.
This study examines the effects of focused-attention meditation on functional brain states in novice meditators. There are a number of feature metrics for functional brain states, such as functional connectivity, graph theoretical metrics, and amplitude of low frequency fluctuation (ALFF). It is necessary to choose appropriate metrics and also to specify the region of interests (ROIs) from a...
BMC Neurology January 21, 2020 J. Hearn, A. Cross
Background Populations with reduced sensory and motor function, such as spinal cord injury (SCI) are at increased risk of depression, anxiety, pain, and poorer quality of life (QoL). Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) have been developed with the aim of improving outcomes for people with SCI. To understand the value of MBIs, a systematic review was conducted pertaining to the use of MBIs,...
Ukraïnsʹkij žurnal medicini bìologìï ta sportu January 17, 2020 A. Kyselova, Chodakowska Warsaw Poland, E. Kravtsova et al.
Depression is one of the most common diagnoses which patients with mood disorders can hear every day. It is a serious condition which influences both physical and mental health. There are several causes of depression (for instance, abuse, certain medications, conflicts at home, work, school, university, etc). Basically, symptoms can vary from feelings of unhappiness and hopelessness to losing...
Psychophysiology January 17, 2020 Marcelo Bigliassi, Bruno M Galano, A. Lima-Silva et al.
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of an audio-guided mindfulness (MF) single session on psychological and psychophysiological responses during an outdoor walking task. Twenty-four participants (12 females and 12 males; Mage = 23.6, SD = 3.9 years) were required to walk 200 m at a pace of their choosing. Two experimental conditions (mindfulness meditation and...
Nurse Media: Journal of Nursing January 16, 2020 Badrul Munif, Sri Poeranto, Yulian Wiji Utami
Background: Academic stress is a major problem that often occurs in nursing students. Islamic spiritual mindfulness (ISM) is an adaptive coping strategy used to mitigate various negative psychological reactions to respond stressors experienced by the body to build self-awareness that any problems experienced today are the scenario of Allah. Purpose: This study aimed to determine the effects of...