Mindfulness and Rumination: Does Mindfulness Training Lead to Reductions in the Ruminative Thinking Associated With Depression?

Deyo, Mary; Wilson, Kimberly; Ong, Jason C.; Koopman, Cheryl

doi:10.1016/j.explore.2009.06.005

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“…Indeed, because MDD patients present a counterproductive top-down recruitment of their attentional resources, an attentional training aiming at increasing the control of attentional resources could be proposed. By decreasing the disordered self-focused ruminations (Deyo et al, 2009), metacognitive therapy such as mindfulness-based strategies (Bondolfi et al, 2009) are likely to substantially improve top-down attentional recruitment. A promising extension of the present study might be to more systematically investigate to what extent such therapeutic interventions promote a normalization of regional brain activity or of network connectivity (or of both) in MDD.…”

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Depression alters “top-down” visual attention: A dynamic causal modeling comparison between depressed and healthy subjects

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Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we recently demonstrated that nonmedicated patients with a first episode of unipolar major depression (MDD) compared to matched controls exhibited an abnormal neural filtering of irrelevant visual information (Desseilles et al., 2009). During scanning, subjects performed a visual attention task imposing two different levels of attentional load at fixation (low or high), while task-irrelevant colored stimuli were presented in the periphery. In the present study, we focused on the visuo-attentional system and used "Dynamic Causal Modeling" (DCM) on the same dataset to assess how attention influences a network of three dynamicallyinterconnected brain regions (visual areas V1 and V4, and intraparietal sulcus (P), differentially in MDD patients and healthy controls. Bayesian model selection (BMS) and model space partitioning (MSP) were used to determine the best model in each population. The best model for the controls revealed that the increase of parietal activity by high attention load was selectively associated with a negative modulation of P on V4, consistent with high attention reducing the processing of irrelevant colored peripheral stimuli. The best model accounting for the data from the MDD patients showed that both low and high attention levels exerted modulatory effects on P. The present results document abnormal effective connectivity across visuoattentional networks in MDD, which likely contributes to deficient attentional filtering of information.

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Depression alters “top-down” visual attention: A dynamic causal modeling comparison between depressed and healthy subjects

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“…Mindfulness-based therapies, such as mindfulness-based stress reduction 37 , mindfulness-based cognitive therapy 67 , and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 31 may be especially potent strategies. Indeed, these treatments have been shown to improve pain outcomes such as pain intensity, functional limitations, and psychological distress 57,65 , and they have also been found to reduce ruminative thinking associated with depression, cancer, and school-related stress 14,34,44 . Unfortunately, although mindfulness-related treatment effects have been demonstrated in women 8,38,63,68 , only a few studies have examined their effectiveness in Black individuals and none were focused on pain 16,66,82 .…”

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“…If so, rather than seeking to indiscriminately eliminate catastrophizing entirely, clinicians may be better served by helping these patients adopt strategies that are consistent with their general inclination (i.e., to secure social resources via cognitive, emotional, and behavioral expressions) but that are more 14 adaptive in nature. Such culturally-sensitive approaches might be an important component of the broader public health effort to reduce pain disparities.…”

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Pain-Related Rumination, But Not Magnification or Helplessness, Mediates Race and Sex Differences in Experimental Pain

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Stout

Abplanalp

et al. 2017

The Journal of Pain

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Compared to White individuals and men, Black individuals and women demonstrate a lower tolerance for experimental pain stimuli. Previous studies suggest that pain catastrophizing is important in this context, but little is known about which components of catastrophizing contribute to these race and sex differences. The purpose of the current study was to examine the individual components of catastrophizing (rumination, magnification, and helplessness) as candidate mediators of race and sex differences in experimental pain tolerance. Healthy undergraduates (N=172, 74% female, 43.2% Black) participated in a cold pressor task and completed a situation-specific version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale. Black and female participants demonstrated a lower pain tolerance than White (p<0.01; d=0.70) and male (p<0.01; d=0.55) participants, respectively. Multiple mediation analyses indicated that these race and sex differences were mediated by the rumination component of catastrophizing Perspective: This study suggests that differences in pain-related rumination, but not magnification or helplessness, are important contributors to race and sex differences in the pain experience. Interventions that target this maladaptive cognitive style may help reduce disparities in pain.

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“…However, contrary to previous evidence suggesting that scores. This may be because most of this evidence is based on training in state mindfulness rather than trait mindfulness differences (e.g., Deyo et al 2009;Heeren and Philippot 2011;Kingston et al 2007). Although Borders et al (2010) reported an association with trait mindfulness, they measured mindfulness with the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (Brown and Ryan 2003) and this scale has more in common with measures of attentional cognitive failures than with other measures of trait mindfulness (Cheyne, Carriere and Smilek 2006;Grossman 2011).…”

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Trait mindfulness and autobiographical memory specificity

Crawley

2014

Cogn Process

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Training in mindfulness skills has been shown to increase autobiographical memory specificity. The aim of this study was to examine whether there is also an association between individual differences in trait mindfulness and memory specificity using a non-clinical student sample (N = 70). Also examined were the relationships between other memory characteristics and trait mindfulness, self-reported depression and rumination. Participants wrote about 12 autobiographical memories which were recalled in response to emotion word cues in a minimal instruction version of the Autobiographical Memory Test, rated each memory for seven characteristics, and completed the Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory, the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale, and the Ruminative Responses Scale. Higher rumination scores were associated with more reliving and more intense emotion during recall.Depression scores were not associated with any memory variables. Higher trait mindfulness was associated with lower memory specificity and with more intense and more positive emotion during recall. Thus, trait mindfulness is associated with memory specificity but the association is opposite to that found in mindfulness training studies. It is suggested that this difference may be due to an influence of trait mindfulness on memory encoding as well as retrieval processes and an influence on the mode of self-awareness that leads to a greater focus on momentary rather than narrative self-reference.

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Mindfulness and Rumination: Does Mindfulness Training Lead to Reductions in the Ruminative Thinking Associated With Depression?

Cited by 207 publications

References 35 publications

Depression alters “top-down” visual attention: A dynamic causal modeling comparison between depressed and healthy subjects

Depression alters “top-down” visual attention: A dynamic causal modeling comparison between depressed and healthy subjects

Pain-Related Rumination, But Not Magnification or Helplessness, Mediates Race and Sex Differences in Experimental Pain

Trait mindfulness and autobiographical memory specificity

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