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ArticleEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2017

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depressed individuals improves suppression of irrelevant mental-sets.

Jonathan Greenberg, Benjamin G Shapero, David Mischoulon, Sara W Lazar

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Article in European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Automatic or controlled: How does disbelief in free will influence cognitive functioning?British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2022
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  5. Mindfulness Meditation and Psychopathology.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2019
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  7. Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Psychiatry.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jonathan GreenbergDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 120 2nd Ave, Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA. jgreenberg5@mgh.harvard.edu.
Benjamin G ShaperoDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1 Bowdoin Square, 6th Floor, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
David MischoulonDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1 Bowdoin Square, 6th Floor, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Sara W LazarDepartment of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 120 2nd Ave, Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA.

Funding

Neural and cognitive changes associated with mindfulness training in older adultsR01AG048351 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI DICKERSON, BRADFORD C, LAZAR, SARA W · 2015 to 2019
$4.0M
Structural, Functional, and Behavioral Effects of MeditationR01AT006344 · NCCIH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LAZAR, SARA W · 2011 to 2015
$2.2M
Preliminary study of a Yoga Program to catalyze health behavior changeR34AT007197 · NCCIH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LAZAR, SARA W · 2013 to 2014
$813k
NCCIH NIH HHS R01 AT006344NCCIH NIH HHS R34 AT007197NIA NIH HHS R01 AG048351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An impaired ability to suppress currently irrelevant mental-sets is a key cognitive deficit in depression. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) was specifically designed to help depressed individuals avoid getting caught in such irrelevant mental-sets. In the current study, a group assigned to MBCT plus treatment-as-usual (n = 22) exhibited significantly lower depression scores and greater improvements in irrelevant mental-set suppression compared to a wait-list plus treatment-as-usual (n = 18) group. Improvements in mental-set-suppression were associated with improvements in depression scores. Results provide the first evidence that MBCT can improve suppression of irrelevant mental-sets and that such improvements are associated with depressive alleviation.

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Inhibition, PsychologicalAdultAnalysis of VarianceAttentionCognitive Behavioral TherapyDepressionFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMindfulnessPsychiatric Status Rating ScalesReaction TimeTreatment OutcomeYoung AdultCompetitor rule suppressionDepressionMental-setMindfulness-based cognitive therapy

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PMID27830339
PMCPMC5357295

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