Event-related brain potentials reflect increased concentration ability after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression: A randomized clinical trial

Bostanov, Vladimir; Keune, Philipp M.; Kotchoubey, Boris; Hautzinger, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2012.05.031

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“…Research indicates that MBCT may attenuate these symptoms. MBCT has been shown to reduce overgeneral autobiographical memory (55, 69, 70), improve attention deployment and maintenance during sad mood (71) and reduce attentional-bias towards negative emotional stimuli (72), although such attentional improvements are not ubiquitous (42, 48, 73). MBCT has additionally been shown to augment suppression of currently-irrelevant mental sets (74) and promote both cognitive flexibility and overall cognitive functioning (75), benefits which correlate with a reduction in depressive symptomology.…”

Section: Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Psychiatry

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Mindfulness meditation has a longstanding history in eastern practices that has received considerable public interest in recent decades. Indeed, the science, practice, and implementation of Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBIs) have dramatically increased in recent years. At its base, mindfulness is a natural human state in which an individual experiences and attends to the present moment. Interventions have been developed to train individuals how to incorporate this practice into daily life. The current article will discuss the concept of mindfulness and describe its implementation in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. We further identify for whom MBIs have been shown to be efficacious and provide an up-to-date summary of how these interventions work. This includes research support for the cognitive, psychological, and neural mechanisms that lead to psychiatric improvements. This review provides a basis for incorporating these interventions into treatment.

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Section: Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Psychiatry

Shapero

Greenberg

Pedrelli

et al. 2018

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“…In an earlier study, Jha et al [18] also observed that MBSR improved the ability to orient attention, and direct and focus attention to relevant inputs. A recent study by Bostanov et al [21] demonstrated that mindful attention is associated with increased amplitude of an EEG evoked response potential to a neutral auditory test stimulus; the heightened late contingent negative variation response observed in subjects trained in mindfulness compared to control subjects was considered to be reflective of mobilization of attentional resources, whereas diminished late contingent negative variation amplitude is observed during inattention to a task.…”

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Older Adults: Effects on Executive Function, Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Immune Function

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Background/Aims: Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has enhanced cognition, positive emotion, and immunity in younger and middle-aged samples; its benefits are less well known for older persons. Here we report on a randomized controlled trial of MBSR for older adults and its effects on executive function, left frontal asymmetry of the EEG alpha band, and antibody response. Methods: Older adults (n = 201) were randomized to MBSR or waiting list control. The outcome measures were: the Trail Making Test part B/A (Trails B/A) ratio, a measure of executive function; changes in left frontal alpha asymmetry, an indicator of positive emotions or approach motivation; depression, mindfulness, and perceived stress scores, and the immunoglobulin G response to a protein antigen, a measure of adaptive immunity. Results: MBSR participants had a lower Trails B/A ratio immediately after intervention (p < 0.05); reduced shift to rightward frontal alpha activation after intervention (p = 0.03); higher baseline antibody levels after intervention (p < 0.01), but lower antibody responses 24 weeks after antigen challenge (p < 0.04), and improved mindfulness after intervention (p = 0.023) and at 21 weeks of follow-up (p = 0.006). Conclusions: MBSR produced small but significant changes in executive function, mindfulness, and sustained left frontal alpha asymmetry. The antibody findings at follow-up were unexpected. Further study of the effects of MBSR on immune function should assess changes in antibody responses in comparison to T-cell-mediated effector functions, which decline as a function of age.

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“…Bostanov and colleagues conducted an RCT comparing a waitlist control to those receiving MBCT. Their results revealed that MBCT patients had developed an improved ability to withdraw their attention from thinking (doing mode) and redeploy it to mindful perception (being mode), offering favourable support to both MBCT and ICS (Bostanov et al, 2012). We would strongly endorse further brain function investigations of MBCT and other psychological therapies.…”

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confidence: 87%