[HTML][HTML] Mindfulness and behavior change

Z Schuman-Olivier, M Trombka, DA Lovas… - Harvard review of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Initiating and maintaining behavior change is key to the prevention and treatment of most
preventable chronic medical and psychiatric illnesses. The cultivation of mindfulness …

[HTML][HTML] Mindfulness-based treatment of addiction: current state of the field and envisioning the next wave of research

EL Garland, MO Howard - Addiction science & clinical practice, 2018 - Springer
Contemporary advances in addiction neuroscience have paralleled increasing interest in
the ancient mental training practice of mindfulness meditation as a potential therapy for …

Trait mindfulness and health behaviours: a meta-analysis

M Sala, C Rochefort, PP Lui… - Health psychology review, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Mindfulness is defined as bringing one's attention to present-moment experience with
acceptance, and is associated with engagement in various health behaviours. To synthesise …

Craving to quit: psychological models and neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness training as treatment for addictions.

JA Brewer, HM Elwafi, JH Davis - 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Humans suffer heavily from substance use disorders and other addictions. Despite much
effort that has been put into understanding the mechanisms of the addictive process …

Mindfulness training modifies cognitive, affective, and physiological mechanisms implicated in alcohol dependence: results of a randomized controlled pilot trial

EL Garland, SA Gaylord, CA Boettiger… - … of psychoactive drugs, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Mindfulness training may disrupt the risk chain of stress-precipitated alcohol relapse. In
2008, 53 alcohol-dependent adults (mean age= 40.3) recruited from a therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Testing the mindfulness-to-meaning theory: Evidence for mindful positive emotion regulation from a reanalysis of longitudinal data

EL Garland, AW Hanley, PR Goldin, JJ Gross - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background and objective The Mindfulness to Meaning Theory (MMT) provides a detailed
process model of mindful positive emotion regulation. Design We conducted a post-hoc …

The downward spiral of chronic pain, prescription opioid misuse, and addiction: cognitive, affective, and neuropsychopharmacologic pathways

EL Garland, B Froeliger, F Zeidan, K Partin… - Neuroscience & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Prescription opioid misuse and addiction among chronic pain patients are emerging public
health concerns of considerable significance. Estimates suggest that more than 10% of …

[HTML][HTML] Mindfulness training targets neurocognitive mechanisms of addiction at the attention-appraisal-emotion interface

EL Garland, B Froeliger, MO Howard - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Prominent neuroscience models suggest that addictive behavior occurs when
environmental stressors and drug-relevant cues activate a cycle of cognitive, affective, and …

The neural chronometry of threat-related attentional bias: Event-related potential (ERP) evidence for early and late stages of selective attentional processing

RS Gupta, A Kujawa, DR Vago - International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Rapid and accurate detection of threat is adaptive. Yet, threat-related attentional biases,
including hypervigilance, avoidance, and attentional disengagement delays, may contribute …

Mindfulness meditation in the treatment of substance use disorders and preventing future relapse: neurocognitive mechanisms and clinical implications

SE Priddy, MO Howard, AW Hanley… - Substance abuse and …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Substance use disorders (SUDs) are a pervasive public health problem with deleterious
consequences for individuals, families, and society. Furthermore, SUD intervention is …