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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alicia M Schowe, Malvika Godara, Darina Czamara, Mazda Adli, Tania Singer, Elisabeth B Binder
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was accompanied by an increase in mental health challenges including depression, stress, loneliness, and anxiety. Common genetic variants can contribute to the risk for psychiatric disorders and may present a risk factor in times of crises. However, it is unclear to what extent polygenic risk played a role in the mental health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we investigate whether polygenic scores (PGSs) for mental health-related traits can distinguish between four resilience-vulnerability trajectories identified during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns in 2020/21...
April 8, 2024: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Malvika Godara, Martin Hecht, Tania Singer
BACKGROUND: Effects of online contemplative practices, especially partner-based practices, on psychological well-being remain mixed, with sparse understanding of potential affective-cognitive mechanisms. The study aimed to assess the efficacy of two online contemplative interventions in improving depression, anxiety, emotion regulation (ER), and resilience, and to evaluate the mechanistic role of negative attention and interpretation biases. METHODS: Employing a randomized controlled design (n = 285), we compared the efficacy of 10-week online mindfulness-based and partner-based socio-emotional dyadic interventions, both supported by weekly coaching sessions...
March 12, 2024: Journal of Affective Disorders
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Annika C Konrad, Katharina Förster, Jason Stretton, Tim Dalgleish, Anne Böckler-Raettig, Fynn-Mathis Trautwein, Tania Singer, Philipp Kanske
Internalizing symptoms such as elevated stress and sustained negative affect can be important warning signs for developing mental disorders. A recent theoretical framework suggests a complex interplay of empathy, theory of mind (ToM), and negative thinking processes as a crucial risk combination for internalizing symptoms. To disentangle these relationships, this study utilizes neural, behavioral, and self-report data to examine how the interplay between empathy, ToM, and negative thinking processes relates to stress and negative affect...
February 15, 2024: Human Brain Mapping
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paul Petzold, Sarita Silveira, Malvika Godara, Hannah Matthaeus, Tania Singer
Contemplative practice has demonstrated benefits for mental health and well-being. Most previous studies, however, implemented in-person trainings containing a mix of different, mostly solitary, practices and focused on pre- to post-training outcomes. In this randomized trial, we explore the immediate differential efficacy of two daily app-delivered practices in shifting emotional (valence, arousal) and thinking patterns (thought content on future-past, self-other, positive-negative dimensions). For 10 weeks of daily training, 212 participants (18-65 years) performed either a novel 12-min partner-based socio-emotional practice (Affect Dyad) or a 12-min attention-focused solitary mindfulness-based practice...
August 24, 2023: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarita Silveira, Malvika Godara, Anna Faschinger, Tania Singer
BACKGROUND: Emotion processing deficits of alexithymia are a transdiagnostic risk factor. While such deficits are malleable, differential efficacy of brief scalable digital mental trainings remains understudied. METHODS: This randomized controlled trial probed the efficacy of mindfulness-based (MB) and partner-based socio-emotional Affect Dyad (SE) practice, both supported by weekly coaching sessions, in reducing alexithymia in 285 adult participants. We investigated the predictive role of interoceptive awareness assessed a) before and after daily practice, b) in ecological momentary assessment (EMA) before and after the intervention, and c) weekly during the 10-week intervention...
August 18, 2023: Journal of Affective Disorders
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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Sarita Silveira, Malvika Godara, Tania Singer
BACKGROUND: Contemplative trainings have been found to effectively improve social skills such as empathy and compassion. However, there is a lack of research on the efficacy of app-delivered mindfulness-based and dyadic practices in boosting socioaffective capacity. OBJECTIVE: The first aim of this study was to compare a novel app-delivered, partner-based socioemotional intervention (Affect Dyad) with mindfulness-based training to foster empathy and compassion for the self or others...
July 26, 2023: Journal of Medical Internet Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sofie Louise Valk, Philipp Kanske, Bo-Yong Park, Seok-Jun Hong, Anne Böckler, Fynn-Mathis Trautwein, Boris C Bernhardt, Tania Singer
The human brain supports social cognitive functions, including Theory of Mind, empathy, and compassion, through its intrinsic hierarchical organization. However, it remains unclear how the learning and refinement of social skills shapes brain function and structure. We studied if different types of social mental training induce changes in cortical function and microstructure, investigating 332 healthy adults (197 women, 20-55 years) with repeated multimodal neuroimaging and behavioral testing. Our neuroimaging approach examined longitudinal changes in cortical functional gradients and myelin-sensitive T1 relaxometry, two complementary measures of cortical hierarchical organization...
July 7, 2023: ELife
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ileana Lorenzini, Eric Alsop, Jennifer Levy, Lauren M Gittings, Deepti Lall, Benjamin E Rabichow, Stephen Moore, Ryan Pevey, Lynette M Bustos, Camelia Burciu, Divya Bhatia, Mo Singer, Justin Saul, Amanda McQuade, Makis Tzioras, Thomas A Mota, Amber Logemann, Jamie Rose, Sandra Almeida, Fen-Biao Gao, Michael Marks, Christopher J Donnelly, Elizabeth Hutchins, Shu-Ting Hung, Justin Ichida, Robert Bowser, Tara Spires-Jones, Mathew Blurton-Jones, Tania F Gendron, Robert H Baloh, Kendall Van Keuren-Jensen, Rita Sattler
While motor and cortical neurons are affected in C9orf72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (ALS/FTD), it remains largely unknown if and how non-neuronal cells induce or exacerbate neuronal damage. We differentiated C9orf72 ALS/FTD patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells into microglia (iPSC-MG) and examined their intrinsic phenotypes. Similar to iPSC motor neurons, C9orf72 ALS/FTD iPSC-MG mono-cultures form G4 C2 repeat RNA foci, exhibit reduced C9orf72 protein levels, and generate dipeptide repeat proteins...
2023: Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Christian Liebmann, Annika C Konrad, Tania Singer, Philipp Kanske
OBJECTIVE: There is little knowledge about which types of meditation-based training are effective for alleviating which facets of psychological distress. We investigated shared and specific effects of three meditation-based training programs on distress. METHOD: 332 healthy adults were assigned to a retest control cohort or to one of three 3-month mental training cohorts including: the cultivation of mindfulness-based attention ( Presence ), socio-affective skills such as compassion ( Affect ), or metacognitive skills such as perspective taking ( Perspective )...
2023: International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology: IJCHP
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Malvika Godara, Jessie Rademacher, Martin Hecht, Sarita Silveira, Manuel C Voelkle, Tania Singer
Abundant studies have examined mental health in the early periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, empirical work examining the mental health impact of the pandemic's subsequent phases remains limited. In the present study, we investigated how mental vulnerability and resilience evolved over the various phases of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021 in Germany. Data were collected (n = 3522) across seven measurement occasions using validated and self-generated measures of vulnerability and resilience. We found evidence for an immediate increase in vulnerability during the first lockdown in Germany, a trend towards recovery when lockdown measures were eased, and an increase in vulnerability with each passing month of the second lockdown...
May 3, 2023: Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hedvig Skirgård, Hannah J Haynie, Damián E Blasi, Harald Hammarström, Jeremy Collins, Jay J Latarche, Jakob Lesage, Tobias Weber, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Sam Passmore, Angela Chira, Luke Maurits, Russell Dinnage, Michael Dunn, Ger Reesink, Ruth Singer, Claire Bowern, Patience Epps, Jane Hill, Outi Vesakoski, Martine Robbeets, Noor Karolin Abbas, Daniel Auer, Nancy A Bakker, Giulia Barbos, Robert D Borges, Swintha Danielsen, Luise Dorenbusch, Ella Dorn, John Elliott, Giada Falcone, Jana Fischer, Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, Hannah Gibson, Hans-Philipp Göbel, Jemima A Goodall, Victoria Gruner, Andrew Harvey, Rebekah Hayes, Leonard Heer, Roberto E Herrera Miranda, Nataliia Hübler, Biu Huntington-Rainey, Jessica K Ivani, Marilen Johns, Erika Just, Eri Kashima, Carolina Kipf, Janina V Klingenberg, Nikita König, Aikaterina Koti, Richard G A Kowalik, Olga Krasnoukhova, Nora L M Lindvall, Mandy Lorenzen, Hannah Lutzenberger, Tânia R A Martins, Celia Mata German, Suzanne van der Meer, Jaime Montoya Samamé, Michael Müller, Saliha Muradoglu, Kelsey Neely, Johanna Nickel, Miina Norvik, Cheryl Akinyi Oluoch, Jesse Peacock, India O C Pearey, Naomi Peck, Stephanie Petit, Sören Pieper, Mariana Poblete, Daniel Prestipino, Linda Raabe, Amna Raja, Janis Reimringer, Sydney C Rey, Julia Rizaew, Eloisa Ruppert, Kim K Salmon, Jill Sammet, Rhiannon Schembri, Lars Schlabbach, Frederick W P Schmidt, Amalia Skilton, Wikaliler Daniel Smith, Hilário de Sousa, Kristin Sverredal, Daniel Valle, Javier Vera, Judith Voß, Tim Witte, Henry Wu, Stephanie Yam, Jingting Ye, Maisie Yong, Tessa Yuditha, Roberto Zariquiey, Robert Forkel, Nicholas Evans, Stephen C Levinson, Martin Haspelmath, Simon J Greenhill, Quentin D Atkinson, Russell D Gray
While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here, we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2400 languages, Grambank is the largest comparative grammatical database available. The comprehensiveness of Grambank allows us to quantify the relative effects of genealogical inheritance and geographic proximity on the structural diversity of the world's languages, evaluate constraints on linguistic diversity, and identify the world's most unusual languages...
April 21, 2023: Science Advances
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Magdalena Degering, Roman Linz, Lara M C Puhlmann, Tania Singer, Veronika Engert
Exposure to excessive and long-term stress may result in dysregulation of the stress system, including the acute stress response. In particular, failure to downregulate stress-related reactivity may lead to prolonged stress responses and the accumulation of allostatic load. However, the contribution of altered acute cortisol recovery to chronic stress and associated health impairments has often been neglected. Addressing this lack of research, we explored whether recovery from - more so than reactivity to - acute stress captures the basal stress load of an individual...
March 2023: Brain, behavior, & immunity health
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REVIEW
Christopher Timmermann, Prisca R Bauer, Olivia Gosseries, Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, Franz Vollenweider, Steven Laureys, Tania Singer, Elena Antonova, Antoine Lutz
No contemporary unifying framework has been provided for the study of non-ordinary states of consciousness (NSCs) despite increased interest in hypnosis, meditation, and psychedelics. NSCs induce shifts in experiential contents (what appears to the experiencer) and/or structure (how it appears). This can allow the investigation of the plastic and dynamic nature of experience from a multiscale perspective that includes mind, brain, body, and context. We propose a neurophenomenological (NP) approach to the study of NSCs which highlights their role as catalysts of transformation in clinical practice by refining our understanding of the relationships between experiential (subjective) and neural dynamics...
February 2023: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Julian Singer, Matthew Tunbridge, Griffith B Perkins, Tania Salehi, Tracey Ying, Huiling Wu, P Toby Coates, Steven J Chadban
INTRODUCTION: Kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) are at an increased risk of hospitalisation and death from COVID-19. Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 is our primary risk mitigation strategy, yet vaccine effectiveness in KTRs is suboptimal. Strategies to enhance vaccine efficacy are therefore required. Current evidence supports the role of the gut microbiota in shaping the immune response to vaccination. Gut dysbiosis is common in KTRs and is a potential contributor to impaired COVID-19 vaccine responses...
December 1, 2022: BMJ Open
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Annalina V Mayer, Katrin Preckel, Kristin Ihle, Fabian A Piecha, Klaus Junghanns, Stefan Reiche, Lena Rademacher, Laura Müller-Pinzler, David S Stolz, Inge Kamp-Becker, Sanna Stroth, Stefan Roepke, Charlotte Küpper, Veronika Engert, Tania Singer, Philipp Kanske, Frieder M Paulus, Sören Krach
Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by difficulties in social communication and interaction, which have been related to atypical neural processing of rewards, especially in the social domain. As intranasal oxytocin has been shown to modulate activation of the brain's reward circuit, oxytocin might ameliorate the processing of social rewards in ASD and thus improve social difficulties. Methods: In this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we examined effects of a 24-IU dose of intranasal oxytocin on reward-related brain function in 37 men with ASD without intellectual impairment and 37 age- and IQ-matched control participants...
April 2022: Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Danilo Boscolo, Bárbara Nobrega Rodrigues, Patrícia Alves Ferreira, Luciano Elsinor Lopes, Vinicius Rodrigues Tonetti, Isabela Cristhina Reis Dos Santos, Juliana Akemi Hiruma-Lima, Laura Nery, Karoline Baptista de Lima, Jéssica Perozi, André Victor Lucci Freitas, Blandina Felipe Viana, Caio Antunes-Carvalho, Dalton de Souza Amorim, Favízia Freitas de Oliveira, Milton Groppo, Maria Lúcia Absy, Renata Jimenez de Almeida-Scabbia, Anderson Alves-Araújo, Felipe Wanderley de Amorim, Pablo Augusto Poleto Antiqueira, Yasmine Antonini, Camila Aoki, Daniele Dos Santos Aragão, Tais Cristina Teixeira Balbino, Michele da Silva Ferreira Bandeira, Bruno Corrêa Barbosa, Maria Regina de Vasconcellos Barbosa, Gudryan Jackson Baronio, Leví Oliveira Barros, Mariana Beal-Neves, Victor Martins Bertollo, Antonio Diego de Melo Bezerra, Cristiano Roberto Buzatto, Liedson Tavares Carneiro, Edilson Caron, Camila Silva Carpim, Emanuela Simoura Carvalho, Tuane Letícia Carvalho, Ludimila Juliele Carvalho-Leite, Mainara Figueiredo Cascaes, Flávio Siqueira de Castro, Adriano Cavalleri, Eliana Cazetta, Monise Terra Cerezini, Luís Francisco Mello Coelho, Renato Colares, Guaraci Duran Cordeiro, Juliana Cordeiro, Angela Maria da Silva Corrêa, Fernanda Vieira da Costa, Cléber Covre, Renata Drummond Marinho Cruz, Oswaldo Cruz-Neto, Léo Correia-da-Rocha-Filho, Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie, Marcos da Costa Dórea, Viviany Teixeira do-Nascimento, Jean Miguel Alves Dos-Santos, Marcelo Duarte, Marília Cristina Duarte, Olívia Maria Pereira Duarte, Julie Henriette Antoinette Dutilh, Betina Pereira Emerick, Gabrielly Dos Santos Fabiano, Fernando Henrique Antoniolli Farache, Ana Paula Gelli de Faria, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Pedro Maria Abreu Ferreira, Maria Juliana Ferreira-Caliman, Lívia Maria Negrini Ferreira, Túlio Freitas Filgueira de Sá, Edivani Villaron Franceschinelli, Greice Ayra Franco-Assis, Frederico Fregolente Faracco Mazziero, Breno Magalhães Freitas, Joelcio Freitas, Natália Arias Galastri, Leonardo Galetto, Caroline Tito Garcia, María Teresa Amela García, Nicole Luize Garcia, Carlos Alberto Garófalo, Irene Gélvez-Zúñiga, Camila da Silva Goldas, Tadeu José Guerra, Tânia Mara Guerra, Birgit Harter-Marques, Juliana Hipólito, Rafael Kamke, Ricardo Pablo Klein, Elmo Borges de Azevedo Koch, Paulo Landgref-Filho, Sebastião Laroca, Cristiane Martins Leandro, Reinanda Lima, Taysla Roberta Almeida de Lima, Luiz Wilson Lima-Verde, Elton John de Lírio, Ariadna Valentina Lopes, Andrea Pereira Luizi-Ponzo, Isabel Cristina Sobreira Machado, Tatiana Machado, Fabrício Severo Magalhães, Thiago Mahlmann, Cléa Dos Santos Ferreira Mariano, Thamy Evellini Dias Marques, Felipe Martello, Celso Feitosa Martins, Mauricio Nogueira Martins, Rafael Martins, André Luiz Santos Mascarenhas, Geovana de Assis Mendes, Milton de Souza Mendonça, Luiz Menini Neto, Michaele Alvim Milward-de-Azevedo, Adrianne Oliveira Miranda, Paula María Montoya-Pfeiffer, Andreza Magro Moraes, Bruna Borges Moraes, Eduardo Freitas Moreira, Maria Santina Morini, Diego Moure-Oliveira, Letícia Fabri De Nadai, Victor Hideki Nagatani, Michelle Helena Nervo, Frederico de Siqueira Neves, Jaílson Santos de Novais, Évellyn Silva Araújo-Oliveira, João Henrique Figueredo de Oliveira, Alípio José de Souza Pacheco-Filho, Luciano Palmieri, Martin Pareja, Marcella de Almeida Passarella, Nayra da Mata Passos, Hipólito Ferreira Paulino-Neto, Ariane Luna Peixoto, Luciana Carvalho Pereira, Rodrigo Augusto Santinelo Pereira, Brenda Pereira-Silva, Jimmy Pincheira-Ulbrich, Mardiore Pinheiro, Augusto João Piratelli, Luciana Regina Podgaiski, Diego Santos Polizello, Lívia Pires do Prado, Fabio Prezoto, Franciele Rosset de Quadros, Elisa Pereira Queiroz, Zelma Glebya Maciel Quirino, Ananza Mara Rabello, Gabriela Beatriz Pereira Rabeschini, Monna Myrnna Mangueira Ramalho, Flavio Nunes Ramos, Ludmila Rattis, Luiz Henrique Gonçalves de Rezende, Caroline Ribeiro, Lizandra Jaqueline Robe, Ely Márley de Souza Ribeiro Rocha, Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues, Gustavo Quevedo Romero, Nádia Roque, William de Oliveira Sabino, Paulo Takeo Sano, Patricia da Silva Santana Reis, Fernando Silva Dos Santos, Isabel Alves Dos Santos, Francisco de Assis Ribeiro Dos Santos, Igor Silva Dos Santos, Ricardo Sartorello, Hermes José Schmitz, Maria Rosângela Sigrist, Juvenal Cordeiro Silva Junior, Ana Carolina Granero E Silva, Carolina Veronese Corrêa da Silva, Beatriz Symara Alves Vieira Silva, Bruna Leticia de Freitas Silva, Cláudia Inês Silva, Fabiana Oliveira da Silva, Jéssica Luiza Souza E Silva, Nathalia Sampaio Silva, Otávio Guilherme Morais da Silva, Carlos de Melo E Silva Neto, Edito Romão Silva Neto, Denise Silveira, Maxwell Souza Silveira, Rodrigo Bustos Singer, Leiza Aparecida Souza Serafim Soares, Evelise Márcia Locatelli de Souza, Jana Magaly Tesserolli de Souza, Josefina Steiner, Mara Cristina Teixeira-Gamarra, Bruno Alves Trentin, Isabela Galarda Varassin, Gabriel Vila-Verde, Vania Nobuko Yoshikawa, Elisabete Maria Zanin, Mauro Galetti, Milton Cezar Ribeiro
Encounters between flowers and invertebrates are key events for the functioning of tropical forests. Assessing the structure of networks composed by the interactions between those partners enables a better understanding of ecosystem functioning and the effects of environmental factors over ecological processes. Gathering such data is, however, costly and time-consuming, especially in the highly diverse tropics. We aimed to provide a comprehensive repository of the available flower-invertebrate interactions information for the Atlantic Forest, a South American tropical forest domain...
October 31, 2022: Ecology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jost U Blasberg, Philipp Kanske, Anne Böckler, Fynn-Mathis Trautwein, Tania Singer, Veronika Engert
Through the long-term activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, chronic psychosocial stress can compromise mental and bodily health. Psychosocial stress is determined by the perception of social interactions as ego-threatening, and thus strongly influenced by individual social processing capacities. In the current study, we investigated whether three key components of social processing are linked to how individuals respond to the experience of acute psychosocial stress exposure...
November 2022: Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Matthew Tunbridge, Griffith B Perkins, Julian Singer, Tania Salehi, Tracey Ying, Branka Grubor-Bauk, Simon Barry, Beatrice Sim, Pravin Hissaria, Steven J Chadban, P Toby Coates
Kidney transplant recipients are at an increased risk of severe COVID-19-associated hospitalisation and death. Vaccination has been a key public health strategy to reduce disease severity and infectivity, but the effectiveness of COVID vaccines is markedly reduced in kidney transplant recipients. Urgent strategies to enhance vaccine efficacy are needed. METHODS: RIVASTIM-rapamycin is a multicentre, randomised, controlled trial examining the effect of immunosuppression modification prior to a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine in kidney transplant recipients who have failed to develop protective immunity to a 2-dose COVID-19 vaccine schedule...
September 15, 2022: Trials
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REVIEW
Malvika Godara, Sarita Silveira, Hannah Matthäus, Tania Singer
During the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, empirical efforts in the psychological sciences have been unequivocally focused on understanding the psychosocial impact on resilience and vulnerability. While current empirical work is guided by different existing theoretical models of resilience and vulnerability, the emerging datasets have also pointed to a necessity for an update of these models. Due to the unique features and developments specific to the current pandemic such as the occurrence of repeated collective stressors of varying durations, in the current position paper, we introduce the Wither or Thrive model of Resilience (With:Resilience)...
July 13, 2022: Adversity and resilience science
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katja Hoehne, Pascal Vrtička, Veronika Engert, Tania Singer
Based on its role in social processing and stress, oxytocin has been suggested to mediate stress reduction of socio-affective, compassion-based mental training. We tested this hypothesis in the ReSource Project, a 9-month longitudinal mental training study. Participants practiced three different types of mental training, targeting either attentional abilities (Presence Module), socio-affective or socio-cognitive abilities (Affect and Perspective Modules). We investigated plasma oxytocin levels, and their link to cortisol and subjective reactivity to acute psychosocial stress as a function of previous mental training (n = 313)...
July 2022: Psychoneuroendocrinology
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