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This small randomized pilot study tested a therapy called Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT) as an extra treatment for women in substance use disorder (SUD) care. Forty-six women were enrolled and those in the MABT group received eight weekly one-on-one sessions in addition to usual care. At the main…
EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) is a psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). More than 30 randomized controlled trials report it is effective for both adults and children. Most international clinical practice guidelines now list EMDR as a first-line treatment. The paper reviews the current evidence on EMDR’s effectiveness,…
This randomized trial put 74 adults with moderate-to-high perceived stress into either an 8-session mindful walking program over 4 weeks or a waiting-list control. After 4 weeks, the mindful walking group had a much larger drop in perceived stress scores than the control group. The study also reported better quality-of-life…
The authors built the Altered States Database (ASDB), a public collection of questionnaire answers about people’s experiences in altered states of consciousness. They pulled data from scientific articles, checked them using a standard review method, and put the raw questionnaire results online so anyone can view and compare them. The…
