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Biao D, Umoh K, Qiguang C, Xiaole W, Ting F, Yuqian Y, Jinchao Z, Fushui L. The Role of Mindfulness Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic Pain. Curr Pain Headache Rep 2024:10.1007/s11916-024-01284-w. [PMID: 38951466 DOI: 10.1007/s11916-024-01284-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/12/2024] [Indexed: 07/03/2024]
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW Mindfulness therapy is a widely used treatment for many diseases and has been shown to improve pain-related functions. There is growing support for the use of psychotherapy in the treatment of chronic pain. While studies have shown a positive effect of mindfulness therapy, it is important to consider psychosocial factors as there are still a small number of studies that question its effectiveness. RECENT FINDINGS Based on current studies, mindfulness therapy involves cognitive factors related to chronic pain, both in terms of cognitive production and its impact on cognitive control. Psychological and neurobasic studies were reviewed to provide a deeper understanding of these components, which include thought inhibition, attention deficit, pain catastrophizing, and self-efficacy. Mindfulness therapy has the potential to normalize psychology and nerves, and increase internal and external connectivity to work networks related to stress perception, cognition, and emotion. However, further research is needed to fully understand its effects. By exploring the relationship between mindfulness therapy and chronic pain. This review provides a new avenue for future research in psychotherapy for patients with chronic pain.
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- Deng Biao
- School of Clinical Medicine, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China
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- School of Clinical Medicine, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China
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- Apartment of Acupotomy and Chiropractic, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China
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- Apartment of Acupotomy and Chiropractic, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China.
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- Apartment of Acupotomy and Chiropractic, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China
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- School of Clinical Medicine, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China
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- School of Clinical Medicine, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China
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- Apartment of Acupotomy and Chiropractic, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China.
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Bertoni S, Franceschini S, Mancarella M, Puccio G, Ronconi L, Marsicano G, Gori S, Campana G, Facoetti A. Action video games and posterior parietal cortex neuromodulation enhance both attention and reading in adults with developmental dyslexia. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae152. [PMID: 38610090 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Revised: 03/20/2024] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024] Open
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The impact of action video games on reading performance has been already demonstrated in individuals with and without neurodevelopmental disorders. The combination of action video games and posterior parietal cortex neuromodulation by a transcranial random noise stimulation could enhance brain plasticity, improving attentional control and reading skills also in adults with developmental dyslexia. In a double blind randomized controlled trial, 20 young adult nonaction video game players with developmental dyslexia were trained for 15 h with action video games. Half of the participants were stimulated with bilateral transcranial random noise stimulation on the posterior parietal cortex during the action video game training, whereas the others were in the placebo (i.e. sham) condition. Word text reading, pseudowords decoding, and temporal attention (attentional blink), as well as electroencephalographic activity during the attentional blink, were measured before and after the training. The action video game + transcranial random noise stimulation group showed temporal attention, word text reading, and pseudoword decoding enhancements and P300 amplitude brain potential changes. The enhancement in temporal attention performance was related with the efficiency in pseudoword decoding improvement. Our results demonstrate that the combination of action video game training with parietal neuromodulation increases the efficiency of visual attention deployment, probably reshaping goal-directed and stimulus-driven fronto-parietal attentional networks interplay in young adults with neurodevelopmental conditions.
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- Sara Bertoni
- Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Piazzale Sant'Agostino 2, Bergamo 24129, Italy
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- Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia 8, Padua 35131, Italy
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- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 32, Leuven 3000, Belgium
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- Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia 8, Padua 35131, Italy
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- School of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Via Olgettina 58, Milan 20132, Italy
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- Centre for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Bologna, Viale Rasi e Spinelli 176, Cesena 47521, Italy
- Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat 5, Bologna 40121, Italy
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- Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Piazzale Sant'Agostino 2, Bergamo 24129, Italy
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- PercUp Lab, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia 8, Padua 35131, Italy
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- Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia 8, Padua 35131, Italy
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Derner M, Reber TP, Faber J, Surges R, Mormann F, Fell J. A key role of the hippocampal P3 in the attentional blink. Neuroimage 2023; 271:120028. [PMID: 36925086 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2022] [Revised: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2023] Open
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The attentional blink (AB) refers to an impaired identification of target stimuli (T2), which are presented shortly after a prior target (T1) within a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) stream. It has been suggested that the AB is related to a failed transfer of T2 into working memory and that hippocampus (HC) and entorhinal cortex (EC) are regions crucial for this transfer. Since the event-related P3 component has been linked to inhibitory processes, we hypothesized that the hippocampal P3 elicited by T1 may impact on T2 processing within HC and EC. To test this hypothesis, we reanalyzed microwire data from 21 patients, who performed an RSVP task, during intracranial recordings for epilepsy surgery assessment (Reber et al., 2017). We identified T1-related hippocampal P3 components in the local field potentials (LFPs) and determined the temporal onset of T2 processing in HC/EC based on single-unit response onset activity. In accordance with our hypothesis, T1-related single-trial P3 amplitudes at the onset of T2 processing were clearly larger for unseen compared to seen T2-stimuli. Moreover, increased T1-related single-trial P3 peak latencies were found for T2[unseen] versus T2[seen] trials in case of lags 1 to 3, which was in line with our predictions. In conclusion, our findings support inhibition models of the AB and indicate that the hippocampal P3 elicited by T1 plays a central role in the AB.
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- Marlene Derner
- Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, Bonn 53127, Germany.
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- Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, Bonn 53127, Germany; Faculty of Psychology, UniDistance Suisse, Schinerstrasse 18, Brig 3900, Switzerland
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- Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, Bonn 53127, Germany
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- Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, Bonn 53127, Germany
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- Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, Bonn 53127, Germany
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- Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, Bonn 53127, Germany
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Singhal I, Srinivasan N. Time and time again: a multi-scale hierarchical framework for time-consciousness and timing of cognition. Neurosci Conscious 2021; 2021:niab020. [PMID: 34394957 PMCID: PMC8358708 DOI: 10.1093/nc/niab020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Temporality and the feeling of ‘now’ is a fundamental property of consciousness. Different conceptualizations of time-consciousness have argued that both the content of our experiences and the representations of those experiences evolve in time, or neither have temporal extension, or only content does. Accounting for these different positions, we propose a nested hierarchical model of multiple timescales that accounts for findings on timing of cognition and phenomenology of temporal experience. This framework hierarchically combines the three major philosophical positions on time-consciousness (i.e. cinematic, extensional and retentional) and presents a common basis for temporal experience. We detail the properties of these hierarchical levels and speculate how they could coexist mechanistically. We also place several findings on timing and temporal experience at different levels in this hierarchy and show how they can be brought together. Finally, the framework is used to derive novel predictions for both timing of our experiences and time perception. The theoretical framework offers a novel dynamic space that can bring together sub-fields of cognitive science like perception, attention, action and consciousness research in understanding and describing our experiences both in and of time.
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- Ishan Singhal
- Department of Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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- Department of Cognitive Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India
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Temporal crowding is a unique phenomenon reflecting impaired target encoding over large temporal intervals. Psychon Bull Rev 2021; 28:1885-1893. [PMID: 34080137 DOI: 10.3758/s13423-021-01943-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Crowding refers to impaired object identification when presented with other objects, and it is well established that spatial crowding-crowding from adjacent objects-affects many aspects of visual perception and cognition. A similar interference also occurs across time-the identification of a target object is impaired when distracting objects precede and succeed it. When such interference is observed with relatively long interitem intervals it is termed temporal crowding. Thus far, little was known about temporal crowding and its underlying processes. Particularly it was unknown which aspects of visual processing are impaired by temporal crowding, and the answer to this question bears critical theoretical implications. To reveal the nature of this impairment we used a continuous-report task and a mixture-model analysis. In three experiments, observers viewed sequences of three oriented items separated by relatively long intervals (170-475ms). The target was the second item in the sequence, and the task was to reproduce its orientation. The findings suggest that temporal crowding impairs target encoding and increases substitution errors, but there was no evidence of a reduced signal-to-noise ratio. This pattern of results was similar regardless of stimuli duration and target-distractor similarity. However, it differed considerably from the pattern found for ordinary masking and spatial crowding, indicating that temporal crowding is a unique phenomenon. Moreover, the finding that temporal crowding affected the precision of target encoding even when the items were separated by almost half a second suggests that visual processing requires a surprisingly long time to complete.
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Wang Y, Xiao L, Gong W, Chen Y, Lin X, Sun Y, Wang N, Wang J, Luo F. Mindful non-reactivity is associated with improved accuracy in attentional blink testing: A randomized controlled trial. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s12144-021-01377-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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