ArticleBrain and behavior2016
Brain and behavior changes associated with an abbreviated 4-week mindfulness-based stress reduction course in back pain patients.
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Artificial Intelligence and Mindfulness Meditation: Innovative Methods to Reduce Stress Amongst Medical School Students
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mindfulness-based randomized controlled trials led to brain structural changes: an anatomical likelihood meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Biological Mechanisms and Chronic Pain Outcomes During Stress Reduction Interventions.Biological research for nursing · 2020Pooled it
- Comparison of the Effectiveness of an Abbreviated Program versus a Standard Program in Mindfulness, Self-Compassion and Self-Perceived Empathy in Tutors and Resident Intern Specialists of Family and Community Medicine and Nursing in Spain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Experimental Pain Sensitivity and Cortisol Responses in Women With Early Life Abuse: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Psychosomatic medicineTrial
- A short-term mindfulness and auricular acupressure program for preoperative sleep fragmentation in patients with spinal metastases: a retrospective quasi-experimental study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Modified-mindfulness-based stress reduction as a treatment for cognitive recovery in patients with minor stroke: a randomized controlled pilot study.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- The moderating role of extraversion in the relationship between trait mindfulness and pain adaptation.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Neurobiological Changes Induced by Mindfulness and Meditation: A Systematic Review.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- Comprehensive Review of Chronic Stress Pathways and the Efficacy of Behavioral Stress Reduction Programs (BSRPs) in Managing Diseases.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Integrating mindfulness into the extended process model of emotion regulation: The dual-mode model of mindful emotion regulation.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Review
- Abnormal Degree Centrality in Zoster-Associated Pain with or Without Psychiatric Comorbidities: A Resting-State Functional MRI Study.Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- An Interventional Response Phenotyping Study in Chronic Low Back Pain: Protocol for a Mechanistic Randomized Controlled Trial.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Dynamic processes of mindfulness-based alterations in pain perception.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Mind-body practices, interoception and pain: a scoping review of behavioral and neural correlates.Annals of medicine · 2023Article
- Three potential neurovascular pathways driving the benefits of mindfulness meditation for older adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Review
- Effects of age on the hippocampus and verbal memory in adults with autism spectrum disorder: Longitudinal versus cross-sectional findings.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Acupuncture in Chronic Low Back Pain: Protocol for Two Linked Randomized Controlled Trials.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Protocol for mindfulness-oriented recovery enhancement (MORE) in the management of lumbosacral radiculopathy/radiculitis symptoms: A randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2022Article
- The search for scientific meaning in mindfulness research: Insights from a scoping review.PloS one · 2022Article
- Enhanced Resting-State Functional Connectivity With Decreased Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations of the Salience Network in Mindfulness Novices.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionMindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) reduces depression, anxiety, and pain for people suffering from a variety of illnesses, and there is a growing need to understand the neurobiological networks implicated in self-reported psychological change as a result of training. Combining complementary and alternative treatments such as MBSR with other therapies is helpful; however, the time commitment of the traditional 8-week course may impede accessibility. This pilot study aimed to (1) determine if an abbreviated MBSR course improves symptoms in chronic back pain patients and (2) examine the neural and behavioral correlates of MBSR treatment.
methodsParticipants were assigned to 4 weeks of weekly MBSR training (n = 12) or a control group (stress reduction reading; n = 11). Self-report ratings and task-based functional MRI were obtained prior to, and after, MBSR training, or at a yoked time point in the control group.
resultsWhile both groups showed significant improvement in total depression symptoms, only the MBSR group significantly improved in back pain and somatic-affective depression symptoms. The MBSR group also uniquely showed significant increases in regional frontal lobe hemodynamic activity associated with gaining awareness to changes in one's emotional state.
conclusionsAn abbreviated MBSR course may be an effective complementary intervention that specifically improves back pain symptoms and frontal lobe regulation of emotional awareness, while the traditional 8-week course may be necessary to detect unique improvements in total anxiety and cognitive aspects of depression.
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