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A neurobehavioral account for decentering as the salve for the distressed mind

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King, Anthony P, Fresco, David M·2019·Current Opinion in Psychology

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Distress is commonly characterized by prolonged internal suffering that can range from self-focused processing of negative emotions and stressors, to highly intensely aversive and prolonged emotional states, thereby, worsening or complicating emotional and physical conditions. Decentering represents a metacognitive capacity thought to reflect three interrelated processes: meta-awareness, disidentification from internal experience, and reduced reactivity to thought content-which is reliably increased with mindfulness-based interventions. In this essay, we seek to link the clinical presentation of distress disorders to known or hypothesized disruptions in neural networks that underlie emotion, cognition, and goal directed behavior, and offer a neurobehavioral account for how and why treatments imbued with mindfulness meditation might ameliorate these conditions, in part through increases in decentering.

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  1. [76]Brewer JA, Worhunsky PD, Gray JR, Tang YY, Weber J, Kober H: Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011, 108(50): 20254– 20259. 22114193 PMC3250176

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Authors
King, A. P., & Fresco, D. M.
Affiliations
  • University of Michigan (US)
  • Kent State University (US)
Corresponding author
King, Anthony P
Venue
Current Opinion in Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-08
Volume
28
Pages
285-293
ISSN
2352-250X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2916914943
Cited by
36
References
123
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 3
FWCI
0.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Current Opinion in Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • MindRxiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
  • MindRxiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
  • OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (1K23MH112852)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL119977)
  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (1R61AT009867)
  • National Institute of Nursing Research (P30NR015326)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Keywords
decentering, distress, mindfulness meditation, metacognition, meta-awareness, disidentification, artificial neural networks, emotion regulation, stress, goal-directed behavior
MeSH terms
Metacognition, Psychological Distress, Behavioral Symptoms, Humans, Nerve Net, Mindfulness

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