ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2019
A neurobehavioral account for decentering as the salve for the distressed mind.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Meta-analytic evidence that mindfulness training alters resting state default mode network connectivity.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- Examining emotion reactivity to politically polarizing media in a randomized controlled trial of mindfulness training versus active coping training.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Spontaneous Goal-Related Cognition Predicts Well-Being and Real-World Goal Attainment Across Adulthood in a Think-Aloud Study.Research square · 2026Article
- Dance-like state detection, curiosity, and decentering: A pilot study on artful movement and mindfulness.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2025Article
- Mindfulness Training in Military Settings: Emerging Evidence and Best-Practice Guidance.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
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- Managing emotions in the age of political polarization: A randomized controlled trial comparing mindfulness to cognitive reappraisal.Research square · 2024Article
- The Psychedelic Future of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment.Current neuropharmacology · 2024Review
- Validation of the factor structure of the Experiences Questionnaire using Exploratory Graph Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Decentering predicts attenuated perseverative thought and internalizing symptoms following stress exposure: A multi-level, multi-wave study.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Article
- Imbalance between default mode and sensorimotor connectivity is associated with perseverative thinking in obsessive-compulsive disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Applying the S-ART Framework to Yoga: Exploring the Self-Regulatory Action of Yoga Practice in Two Culturally Diverse Samples.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Punishment on Pause: Preliminary Evidence That Mindfulness Training Modifies Neural Responses in a Reactive Aggression Task.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Spontaneous brain state oscillation is associated with self-reported anxiety in a non-clinical sample.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The Metacognitive Processes of Decentering Scale: Development and initial validation of trait and state versions.Psychological assessment · 2020Article
- A comparison of decentering across demographic groups and meditation experience: Support for the measurement invariance of the Experiences Questionnaire.Psychological assessment · 2020Article
- Intrinsic Connectivity Networks in the Self- and Other-Referential Processing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Emotion Regulation Therapy and Its Potential Role in the Treatment of Chronic Stress-Related Pathology Across Disorders.Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)Review
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Abstract
Distress is commonly characterized by prolonged internal suffering that can range from self-focused processing of negative emotions and stressors, to highly intensely aversive and prolonged emotional states, thereby, worsening or complicating emotional and physical conditions. Decentering represents a metacognitive capacity thought to reflect three interrelated processes: meta-awareness, disidentification from internal experience, and reduced reactivity to thought content-which is reliably increased with mindfulness-based interventions. In this essay, we seek to link the clinical presentation of distress disorders to known or hypothesized disruptions in neural networks that underlie emotion, cognition, and goal directed behavior, and offer a neurobehavioral account for how and why treatments imbued with mindfulness meditation might ameliorate these conditions, in part through increases in decentering.
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