Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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1 paper

Differential effects of a brief body scan session on pain and anxiety levels

Geneviève Bouchard, Janelle Gallant

This study tested a single 14‑minute body scan on 355 undergraduate and graduate students. Participants filled in questionnaires before and after the exercise to measure current anxiety and pain and to classify people as having low or high everyday symptoms. The results showed the body scan reduced anxiety and pain…

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