Scientific References - Mental Well-being
General
The Internal Dialogue: On the Asymmetry Between Positive and Negative Coping Thoughts 1, Robert M. Schwartz, Cognitive Therapy and Research, Vol. 10, No. 6, 1986, pp. 591-605
Secrets of How Meditation Works
By Peter B. Reiner
Scientific American Mind, November 2009
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Science Probes Spirituality
By Jamie Talan
Scientific American Mind, February 2006
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What happens in the brain to create a sense of peace during meditation? And could drugs tap those mechanisms without us focusing inward for hours?
Placebo Effect: A Cure in the Mind
By Maj-Britt Niemi
Scientific American Mind, February 2009
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Belief is powerful medicine, even if the treatment itself is a sham. New research shows placebos can also benefit patients who do not have faith in them.
Affirmations and Visualisation
Where the imaginal appears real: A positron emission tomography study of auditory hallucinations, Henry Szechtman, Erik Woody, Kenneth S. Bowers, and Claude Nahmias, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 95, pp. 1956–1960, February 1998
The neural basis of personal goal processing when envisioning future events, D'Argembeau Arnaud; Stawarczyk David; Majerus Steve; Collette Fabienne; Van der Linden Martial; Feyers Dorothée; Maquet Pierre; Salmon Eric.
Journal of cognitive neuroscience 2010;22(8):1701-13.
Modulation of medial prefrontal and inferior parietal cortices when thinking about past, present, and future selves., D'Argembeau Arnaud; Stawarczyk David; Majerus Steve; Collette Fabienne; Van der Linden Martial; Salmon Eric
Social neuroscience 2010;5(2):187-200.
Stress, Meditation and the Immune System
Psychological stress and the human immune system: a meta-analytic study of 30 years of inquiry.
S. Segerstrom and G. Miller
Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation
Richard J. Davidson, PhD, Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, Jessica Schumacher, MS, Melissa Rosenkranz, BA, Daniel Muller, MD, PhD, Saki F. Santorelli, EdD, Ferris Urbanowski, MA, Anne Harrington, PhD, Katherine Bonus, MA and John F. Sheridan, PhD, Psychosomatic Medicine 65:564-570 (2003)
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Relation to Quality of Life, Mood, Symptoms of Stress, and Immune Parameters in Breast and Prostate Cancer Outpatients
Linda E. Carlson, PhD, Michael Speca, PsyD, Kamala D. Patel, PhD and Eileen Goodey, MSW,
Psychosomatic Medicine 65:571-581 (2003)
Meditation: a modulator of the immune response to physical stress? A brief report
E E Solberg, R Halvorsen, J Sundgot-Borgen, F Ingjer, A Holen,
Br J Sports Med 1995;29:255-257 doi:10.1136/bjsm.29.4.255
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Psycho-endocrine-immune response to mindfulness-based stress reduction in individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus: a quasiexperimental study, Robinson FP, Mathews HL, Witek-Janusek L., J Altern Complement Med. 2003 Oct;9(5):683-94.
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Mindfulness meditation training effects on CD4+ T lymphocytes in HIV-1 infected adults, J.D. Creswell, H.F. Myers, S.W. Cole et M.R. Irwin, in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2009.
Alterations in brain and immune function produced by mindfulness meditation, R.J. Davidson, J. Kabat-Zinn et al., in Psychosomatic Medicine, 2003.
Stress, Meditation and Cancer
A Randomized, Wait-List Controlled Clinical Trial: The Effect of a Mindfulness Meditation-Based Stress Reduction Program on Mood and Symptoms of Stress in Cancer Outpatients
M. Speca, L. E. Carlson, E. Goodey, M. Angen
Psychosom. Med. 2000;62:613-622
Effects of an Integrated Yoga Program in Modulating Psychological Stress and Radiation-Induced Genotoxic Stress in Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy
B. Banerjee, H.S. Vadiraj, A. Ram, R. Rao, M. Jayapal, K. S. Gopinath, B.S. Ramesh, N. Rao, A. Kumar, N. Raghuram, S. Hegde, H.R. Nagendra, M. Prakash Hande
Integr Cancer Ther 2007;6:242-250
Meditation, melatonin and breast/prostate cancer, A.O. Massion, J. Teas, J.R. Hebert, M.D. Wertheimer et J. Kabat-Zinn, in Medical Hypotheses, 1995.
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Stress, Meditation and Other Medical Conditions
Influence of a mindfulness meditation-based stress reduction intervention on rates of skin clearing in patients with moderate to severe psoriasis undergoing phototherapy and photochemotherapy (PUVA), J. Kabat-Zinn, E. Wheeler et al., in Psychosomatic Medicine, 1998.
Stress reactivity to and recovery from a standardised exercise bout: a study of 31 runners practising relaxation techniques
E E Solberg, F Ingjer, A Holen, J Sundgot-Borgen, S Nilsson, I Holme
Br. J. Sports. Med. 2000;34:268-272
Three-year follow-up and clinical implications of a mindfulness meditation-based stress reduction intervention in the treatment of anxiety disorders, J.J. Miller, K. Fletcher et J. Kabat-Zinn, in General Hospital Psychiatry, 1995.
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The clinical use of mindfulness meditation for the self-regulation of chronic pain, J. Kabat-Zinn, L. Lipworth et R. Burney, in Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1985.
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The impact of a meditation-based stress reduction program on fibromyalgia, de K.H. Kaplan, D.L. Goldenberg et M. Galvin-Nadeau, in General Hospital Psychiatry, 1993.
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Reducing risk of recurrence of major depression using mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, de J.D. Teasdale, Z.V. Segal, J.M.G. Williams et al., in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2000.
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Hypnosis and Health
Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis. Spiegel H, Spiegel D: Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 1987
Functional neuroanatomy of hypnotic state. Maquet P, Faymonville ME, Degueldre C, Delfiore G, Franck G, Luxen A, Lamy M: Biol Psychiatry 1999; 45:327–333
Cerebral mechanisms of hypnotic induction and suggestion. Rainville P, Hofbauer RK, Paus T, Duncan GH, Bushnell MC, Price DD: J Cogn Neurosci 1999; 11:110–125
Pain Affect Encoded in Human Anterior Cingulate But Not Somatosensory Cortex, Pierre Rainville, Gary H. Duncan, Donald D. Price, Benoît Carrier, M. Catherine Bushnell, Science 15 August 1997: Vol. 277. no. 5328, pp. 968 – 971
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Hypnosis with conscious sedation instead of general anaesthesia? Applications in cervical endocrine surgery., Meurisse M; Defechereux T; Hamoir E; Maweja S; Marchettini P; Gollogly L; Degauque C; Joris J; Faymonville M E
Acta chirurgica Belgica 1999;99(4):151-8.
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Hypnosedation: a valuable alternative to traditional anaesthetic techniques. Faymonville M E; Meurisse M; Fissette J, Acta chirurgica Belgica 1999;99(4):141-6.
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Surgery under hypnosedation. A new therapeutic approach to hyperparathyroidism, Defechereux T; Faymonville M E; Joris J; Hamoir E; Moscato A; Meurisse M, Annales de chirurgie 1998;52(5):439-43.
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Hypnosis, hypnotic sedation. Current concepts and their application in plastic surgery, Faymonville M E; Fissette J; Mambourg P H; Delchambre A; Lamy M, Revue médicale de Liège 1994;49(1):13-22.
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Effects of hypnosis on regional cerebral blood flow during ischemic pain with and without suggested hypnotic analgesia. Crawford HJ, Gur RC, Skolnick B, Gur RE, Benson DM: Int J Psychophysiol 1993; 15:181–195
The cognitive unconscious. Kihlstrom JF: Science 1987; 237:1445–1452
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Episodic future thinking allows humans to mentally simulate virtually infinite future possibilities, yet this device is fundamentally goal-directed and should not be equated with fantasizing or wishful thinking. The purpose of this fMRI study was to investigate the neural basis of such goal-directed processing during future-event simulation. Participants were scanned while they imagined future events that were related to their personal goals (personal future events) and future events that were plausible but unrelated to their personal goals (nonpersonal future events). Results showed that imaging personal future events elicited stronger activation in ventral medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) compared to imaging nonpersonal future events. Moreover, these brain activations overlapped with activations elicited by a second task that assessed semantic self-knowledge (i.e., making judgments on one's own personality traits), suggesting that ventral MPFC and PCC mediate self-referential processing across different functional domains. It is suggested that these brain regions may support a collection of processes that evaluate, code, and contextualize the relevance of mental representations with regard to personal goals. The implications of these findings for the understanding of the function instantiated by the default network of the brain are also discussed.
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Recent functional neuroimaging studies have shown that reflecting on representations of the present self versus temporally distant selves is associated with higher activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). In the current fMRI study, we investigated whether this effect of temporal perspective is symmetrical between the past and future. The main results revealed that the MPFC showed higher activity when reflecting on the present self than when reflecting on past and future selves, with no difference between past and future selves. Temporal perspective also modulated activity in the right inferior parietal cortex but in the opposite direction, activity in this brain region being higher when reflecting on past and future selves relative to the present self (with again no difference between past and future selves). These findings show that differences in brain activity when thinking about current versus temporally distant selves are symmetrical between the past and the future. It is suggested that by processing degrees of self-relatedness, the MPFC might sustain the process of identifying oneself with current representations of the self, whereas the right inferior parietal cortex might be involved in distinguishing the present self from temporally distant selves.
