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Mindfulness meditation improves emotion regulation and reduces drug abuse
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BACKGROUND: The core clinical symptoms of addiction include an enhanced incentive for drug taking (craving), impaired self-control (impulsivity and compulsivity), emotional dysregulation (negative mood) and increased stress reactivity. Symptoms related to impaired self-control involve reduced activity in anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), adjacent prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and other brain areas. Behavioral training such as mindfulness meditation can increase the function of control networks including those leading to improved emotion regulation and thus may be a promising approach for the treatment of addiction. METHODS: In a series of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), we tested whether increased ACC/mPFC activity is related to better self-control abilities in executive functions, emotion regulation and stress response in healthy and addicted populations. After a brief mindfulness training (Integrative Body-Mind Training, IBMT), we used the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) and Profile of Mood States (POMS) to measure emotion regulation, salivary cortisol for the stress response and fMRI for brain functional and DTI structural changes. Relaxation training was used to serve as an active control. RESULTS: In both smokers and nonsmokers, improved self-control abilities in emotion regulation and stress reduction were found after training and these changes were related to increased ACC/mPFC activity following training. Compared with nonsmokers, smokers showed reduced ACC/mPFC activity in the self-control network before training, and these deficits were ameliorated after training. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that promoting emotion regulation and improving ACC/mPFC brain activity can help for addiction prevention and treatment.
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“Aspects of ACT, such as reducing avoidance and increasing present moment awareness, have been found to effectively reduce substance use via improving emotional regulation (Conklin et al., 2015; Tang et al., 2016).”
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“Additional literature has also discovered similar findings, however improved substance use by teaching BA techniques (Conklin et al., 2015; Tang et al., 2016).”
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“This situation could be reversed by ME, which contributed to improve emotion regulation and brain activity to prevent and treat the addiction [51,52].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tang, Y.-Y., Tang, R., & Posner, M. I.
- Affiliations
- Texas Tech University (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- University of Oregon (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tang, Yi-Yuan
- Venue
- Drug and Alcohol Dependence
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-06
- Volume
- 163
- Pages
- S13-S18
- ISSN
- 0376-8716 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2418056822
- Cited by
- 306
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 41 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 38 · 2020: 34 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 33
- FWCI
- 3.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Drug and Alcohol Dependence (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Office of Naval Research
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- mindfulness meditation, emotion regulation, drug abuse, addiction treatment, self-control, anterior cingulate cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, stress response, salivary cortisol, smoking, craving, impulsivity, executive function, brain network activity, addiction prevention
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Affect, Emotions, Female, Gyrus Cinguli, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Relaxation Therapy, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Prefrontal Cortex, Meditation, Substance-Related Disorders, Executive Function, Mindfulness
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