Brain and behavior changes associated with an abbreviated 4-week mindfulness-based stress reduction course in back pain patients.
B Blair BradenTeri B PipeRyan SmithTyler K GlaspyBrandon R DeatherageLeslie C BaxterPublished in: Brain and behavior (2016)
An abbreviated MBSR course may be an effective complementary intervention that specifically improves back pain symptoms and frontal lobe regulation of emotional awareness, while the traditional 8-week course may be necessary to detect unique improvements in total anxiety and cognitive aspects of depression.
Keyphrases
- sleep quality
- end stage renal disease
- randomized controlled trial
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- prognostic factors
- depressive symptoms
- peritoneal dialysis
- chronic pain
- clinical trial
- white matter
- working memory
- physical activity
- multiple sclerosis
- functional connectivity
- stress induced
- brain injury
- blood brain barrier
- patient reported