Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

Interoceptive Awareness Skills for Emotion Regulation: Theory and Approach of Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT)

Price, Cynthia J., Hooven, Carole

www.frontiersin.org • Summary & key facts • 2018 • 388 citations

This paper explains how being aware of internal body signals (called interoceptive awareness) is tied to understanding and managing emotions. It describes a therapy named Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT) that teaches three core interoceptive skills—identifying, accessing, and appraising bodily signals—using education and hands-on body work. The authors present…

Action Observation and Synchronization Personality Disorders and Psychopathology Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Somatic experiencing: using interoception and proprioception as core elements of trauma therapy

Peter Payne, Peter A. Levine, Mardi A. Crane‐Godreau

Frontiers in Psychology • Summary & key facts • 2015 • 306 citations

This paper explains Somatic Experiencing (SE), a form of trauma therapy that focuses on guiding a person's attention to internal body sensations (like heartbeat, breathing, muscle feeling) instead of mainly talking about thoughts or memories. The authors describe how SE claims these bodily sensations can help complete interrupted defensive responses…

Mental Health and Psychiatry Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Prevalence and course of somatic symptoms in patients with stress-related exhaustion: does sex or age matter

Kristina Glise, Gunnar Ahlborg, Ingibjörg H. Jónsdóttir

BMC Psychiatry • Summary & key facts • 2014 • 119 citations

This study followed 228 patients diagnosed with stress-related Exhaustion Disorder (mean age 43, 69% women). Almost all patients (98%) reported at least one physical symptom and 45% reported six or more. The most common symptoms were nausea/gas/indigestion (67%), headaches (65%) and dizziness (57%). Over 18 months of individualized treatment for…

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments Workplace Health and Well-being

The brain-body disconnect: A somatic sensory basis for trauma-related disorders

Breanne E Kearney, Ruth A Lanius

PubMed Central (PMC) • Summary & key facts • 2022 • 116 citations

This review paper suggests that problems in body-based senses — especially the vestibular system (balance/motion) and the somatosensory system (touch and body position) — may help explain many symptoms of trauma-related disorders. The authors propose that trauma can disrupt low-level, brainstem sensory processing and that this disruption can cascade into…

Action Observation and Synchronization Mental Health and Psychiatry Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Somatic experiencing – effectiveness and key factors of a body-oriented trauma therapy: a scoping literature review

Marie Kuhfuß, Tobias Maldei, Andreas Hetmanek, Nicola Baumann

European journal of psychotraumatology • Summary & key facts • 2021 • 87 citations

The results concerning effectiveness and method-specific key factors of SE are promising; yet, require more support from unbiased RCT-research. Future research should focus on filling this gap.

Art Therapy and Mental Health Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Links among emotional awareness, somatic awareness and autonomic homeostatic processing

Kanbara, Kenji, Fukunaga, Mikihiko

SpringerLink • Summary & key facts • 2016 • 77 citations

This review looks at research on emotional awareness, awareness of bodily signals (interoception), and the body's autonomic homeostatic processes. The authors say limbic brain systems link these processes, that measures of autonomic activity and stress reactivity relate to both kinds of awareness, and that problems in autonomic function may be…

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Mental Health and Psychiatry Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Progressive brain changes in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: A longitudinal MRI study

Zack Shan, Richard Kwiatek, Richard Burnet, Peter Del Fante, Donald Staines, Sonya Marshall‐Gradisnik, et al.

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging • Summary & key facts • 2016 • 72 citations

The results suggested that CFS is associated with IFOF WM deficits which continue to deteriorate at an abnormal rate. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2016;44:1301-1311.

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

The Neurobiology of Pathological Fatigue: New Models, New Questions

Annapoorna Kuppuswamy

The Neuroscientist • Summary & key facts • 2021 • 48 citations

This review compares three recent brain-based ideas for pathological fatigue and the evidence for them. One idea, the sensory attenuation model (SAF), says poor suppression of self-generated sensory signals makes movements feel harder and so raises perceived effort; a study found that long-term (trait) fatigue, but not day-to-day (state) fatigue,…

Mental Health and Psychiatry Neurology and Historical Studies Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Clinical Manifestations of Body Memories: The Impact of Past Bodily Experiences on Mental Health

Antje Gentsch, Esther Kuehn

Brain Sciences • Summary & key facts • 2022 • 32 citations

The authors review research and suggest that negative "body memories" — past bodily experiences of touch, pain, movement, or inner signals that are stored in memory — may help explain why some mental health problems have strong physical or bodily symptoms. They bring together findings from neuroscience, clinical cases, and…

Action Observation and Synchronization Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Facilitating Adaptive Emotion Processing and Somatic Reappraisal via Sustained Mindful Interoceptive Attention

Price, Cynthia J., Weng, Helen Y.

www.frontiersin.org • Summary & key facts • 2021 • 28 citations

The paper proposes a clinical framework that helps people notice and work with body sensations tied to emotions. It calls this mindful interoceptive awareness and says focusing on inner body signals in a sustained, nonjudgmental way can make those sensations clearer and allow a process the authors call somatic reappraisal.…

Pain Management and Placebo Effect Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Interoceptive hunger, eating attitudes and beliefs

Richard J. Stevenson, Brayson J. Hill, Alannah Hughes, Madeline Wright, Johanna Bartlett, Supreet Saluja, et al.

Frontiers in Psychology • Summary & key facts • 2023 • 21 citations

Researchers surveyed mainly young university students about how hunger feels just before a main meal and then retested many about 1 month later. They found hunger sensations fit 11 different dimensions, that people differ in which sensations they report, and that those reports were stable over time. Although there was…

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Interoceptive awareness in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Jan R. Wiersema, Elke Godefroid

PLoS ONE • Summary & key facts • 2018 • 20 citations

This 2018 study asked whether adults with ADHD can notice their bodily signals (interoceptive awareness). The researchers compared 24 adults with ADHD to 23 adults without ADHD. They used a heartbeat perception task (an objective test) and a questionnaire (a subjective test). Both groups performed similarly on both measures. The…

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments