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Psychobiology of Mindfulness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Dan J. Stein,
Victoria Ives-Deliperi and
Kevin G.F. Thomas
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Abstract

There is controversy about whether mindfulness-based approaches to psychotherapy represent a new wave of cognitive-behavioral therapy or a core process in all psychotherapies. One way of conceptualizing mindfulness is in terms of emotion regulation; mindfulness is a strategy aimed at opposing suppression and avoidance. Dispositional mindfulness has been associated with greater activation in prefrontal cortex and greater deactivation of amygdala during affect labeling. A number of rigorous studies of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression have been positive. However, much remains to be discovered about the underlying mechanisms of and clinical indications for mindfulness-based approaches.

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Pearls in Clinical Neuroscience
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 13 , Issue 9 , September 2008, pp. 752 - 756
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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