Trial reportSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2013
MBSR vs aerobic exercise in social anxiety: fMRI of emotion regulation of negative self-beliefs.
Trial report in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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54 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 144 citations in OpenAlex.
- Fears Worth Testing Out: A Systematic Review of the Neural Mechanisms of Treatment Outcome for Anxiety-Related Disorders.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Pooled it
- Unpacking reappraisal: a systematic review of fMRI studies of distancing and reinterpretation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- Systematic Review for the Medical Applications of Meditation in Randomized Controlled Trials.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Cognitive benefits of exercise interventions: an fMRI activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis.Brain structure & function · 2021Pooled it
- Physical Activity as a Treatment for Social Anxiety in Clinical and Non-clinical Populations: A Systematic Review and Three Meta-Analyses for Different Study Designs.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic review of the neural bases of psychotherapy for anxiety and related disorders.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2015Pooled it
- Exercise as Treatment for Anxiety: Systematic Review and Analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2015Pooled it
- Acceptance versus reappraisal: Behavioral, autonomic, and neural effects.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Trial
- Trajectories of social anxiety, cognitive reappraisal, and mindfulness during an RCT of CBGT versus MBSR for social anxiety disorder.Behaviour research and therapy · 2017Trial
- Group CBT versus MBSR for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2016Trial
- The chain mediating role of emotion regulation and stress perception in physical activity alleviating college students' health anxiety.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Implementation of Mindfulness-Based Emotion Regulation Strategies: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Affective science · 2025Review
- Advances in Neuroimaging of Breast Cancer Pain: An Overview.Journal of pain research · 2025Review
- Beyond Pharmacology: A Narrative Review of Alternative Therapies for Anxiety Disorders.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Mindfulness-based neurofeedback: A systematic review of EEG and fMRI studies.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Move Your Body, Boost Your Brain: The Positive Impact of Physical Activity on Cognition across All Age Groups.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Treadmill exercise modulates the medial prefrontal-amygdala neural circuit to improve the resilience against chronic restraint stress.Communications biology · 2023Article
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- Can dialectical behavior therapy skills group treat social anxiety disorder? A brief integrative review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Virtual Reality-Guided Meditation for Chronic Pain in Patients With Cancer: Exploratory Analysis of Electroencephalograph Activity.JMIR biomedical engineering · 2021Article
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Abstract
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is thought to reduce emotional reactivity and enhance emotion regulation in patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD). The goal of this study was to examine the neural correlates of deploying attention to regulate responses to negative self-beliefs using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants were 56 patients with generalized SAD in a randomized controlled trial who were assigned to MBSR or a comparison aerobic exercise (AE) stress reduction program. Compared to AE, MBSR yielded greater (i) reductions in negative emotion when implementing regulation and (ii) increases in attention-related parietal cortical regions. Meditation practice was associated with decreases in negative emotion and social anxiety symptom severity, and increases in attention-related parietal cortex neural responses when implementing attention regulation of negative self-beliefs. Changes in attention regulation during MBSR may be an important psychological factor that helps to explain how mindfulness meditation training benefits patients with anxiety disorders.
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