Trial reportScientific reports2019
The effect of mindfulness training on extinction retention.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Just-in-Time Adaptive Mechanisms of Popular Mobile Apps for Individuals With Depression: Systematic App Search and Literature Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- Effect of app-based mindfulness on extinction recall - a 7T-fMRI study.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- A systematic review of spontaneous recovery in human fear conditioning.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
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- Breath-Counting Task Enhances the Sensitivity of Fear Acquisition.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The impact of mindfulness apps on psychological processes of change: a systematic review.Npj mental health research · 2024Review
- Propofol Reversibly Attenuates Short-Range Microstate Ordering and 20 Hz Microstate Oscillations.Brain topography · 2024Article
- Interoception in Fear Learning and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2023Article
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- Delivery of Complementary and Integrative Health Using Virtual Health Resources: A Scoping Review.Journal of integrative and complementary medicine · 2022Article
- Efficacy and Conflicts of Interest in Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Headspace and Calm Apps: Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2022Review
- High vagal tone and rapid extinction learning as potential transdiagnostic protective factors following childhood violence exposure.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Safety learning during development: Implications for development of psychopathology.Behavioural brain research · 2021Review
- Influence on Forgiveness, Character Strengths and Satisfaction with Life of a Short Mindfulness Intervention via a Spanish Smartphone Application.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Mindfulness and Shinrin-Yoku: Potential for Physiological and Psychological Interventions during Uncertain Times.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Mindfulness and Behavior Change.Harvard review of psychiatryReview
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Abstract
Anxiety and trauma related disorders are highly prevalent, causing suffering and high costs for society. Current treatment strategies, although effective, only show moderate effect-sizes when compared to adequate control groups demonstrating a need to develop new forms of treatment or optimize existing ones. In order to achieve this, an increased understanding of what mechanisms are involved is needed. An emerging literature indicates that mindfulness training (MFT) can be used to treat fear and anxiety related disorders, but the treatment mechanisms are unclear. One hypothesis, largely based on findings from neuroimaging studies, states that MFT may improve extinction retention, but this has not been demonstrated empirically. To investigate this question healthy subjects either completed a 4-week MFT- intervention delivered through a smart-phone app (n = 14) or were assigned to a waitlist (n = 15). Subsequently, subjects participated in a two-day experimental protocol using pavlovian aversive conditioning, evaluating acquisition and extinction of threat-related responses on day 1, and extinction retention on day 2. Results showed that the MFT group displayed reduced spontaneous recovery of threat related arousal responses, as compared to the waitlist control group, on day 2. MFT did not however, have an effect on either the acquisition or extinction of conditioned responses day 1. This clarifies the positive effect of MFT on emotional functioning and could have implications for the treatment of anxiety and trauma related disorders.
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