Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depressed individuals improves suppression of irrelevant mental-sets
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An impaired ability to suppress currently irrelevant mental-sets is a key cognitive deficit in depression. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) was specifically designed to help depressed individuals avoid getting caught in such irrelevant mental-sets. In the current study, a group assigned to MBCT plus treatment-as-usual (n = 22) exhibited significantly lower depression scores and greater improvements in irrelevant mental-set suppression compared to a wait-list plus treatment-as-usual (n = 18) group. Improvements in mental-set-suppression were associated with improvements in depression scores. Results provide the first evidence that MBCT can improve suppression of irrelevant mental-sets and that such improvements are associated with depressive alleviation.
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MBCT has been shown to augment suppression of currently irrelevant mental sets and promote cognitive flexibility and overall cognitive functioning, benefits that correlate with reduced depressive symptoms.
“MBCT has additionally been shown to augment suppression of currently-irrelevant mental sets (74) and promote both cognitive flexibility and overall cognitive functioning (75), benefits which correlate with a reduction in depressive symptomology.”
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“MBCT has additionally been shown to augment suppression of currentlyirrelevant mental sets (74) and promote both cognitive flexibility and overall cognitive functioning (75), benefits which correlate with a reduction in depressive symptomology.”
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- Authors
- Greenberg, J., Shapero, B. G., Mischoulon, D., & Lazar, S. W.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Greenberg, Jonathan
- Venue
- European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
- Published
- 2016-11-09
- Volume
- 267
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 277-282
- ISSN
- 0003-9373 (ISSN-L)
- 0940-1334
- 1433-8491
- PMC
- PMC5357295
- OpenAlex
- W2557013485
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 5
- FWCI
- 3.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Altermed Research Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, depression, cognitive deficits in depression, treatment response, cognitive flexibility
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Analysis of Variance, Attention, Depression, Female, Humans, Inhibition, Psychological, Male, Middle Aged, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Reaction Time, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Treatment Outcome, Young Adult, Mindfulness
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