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The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders
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Mindfulness involves nonjudgmental attention to present-moment experience. In its therapeutic forms, mindfulness interventions promote increased tolerance of negative affect and improved well-being. However, the neural mechanisms underlying mindful mood regulation are poorly understood. Mindfulness training appears to enhance focused attention, supported by the anterior cingulate cortex and the lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC). In emotion regulation, these PFC changes promote the stable recruitment of a nonconceptual sensory pathway, an alternative to conventional attempts to cognitively reappraise negative emotion. In neural terms, the transition to nonconceptual awareness involves reducing evaluative processing, supported by midline structures of the PFC. Instead, attentional resources are directed toward a limbic pathway for present-moment sensory awareness, involving the thalamus, insula, and primary sensory regions. In patients with affective disorders, mindfulness training provides an alternative to cognitive efforts to control negative emotion, instead directing attention toward the transitory nature of momentary experience. Limiting cognitive elaboration in favour of momentary awareness appears to reduce automatic negative self-evaluation, increase tolerance for negative affect and pain, and help to engender self-compassion and empathy in people with chronic dysphoria.
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“In community samples, MBSR has been associated with decreased activation of these cortical midline structures (Goldin et al., 2009; Farb et al., 2010)”
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“In comparisons of concentrative meditation against active control conditions such as simple arithmetic (Holzel et al., 2007), or visual object discrimination (Baron Short et al., 2007), meditation increases recruitment of the anterior cingulate”
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“and efforts to mindfully attend to experience can reduce cortical midline activity even in untrained individuals (Farb et al., 2007).”
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“In mood disorders however, this cognitive control appears to be impaired, as evidenced by compromised connectivity between the PFC and limbic regions such as the amygdala (Johnstone et al., 2007; Ressler & Mayberg, 2007).”
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“Mindfulness training appears to help reduce cognitive rumination (Ramel et al., 2004)”
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“effortful down-regulation of sadness is perceived as more difficult by patients with a mood disorder (Keightley et al., 2003)”
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“for whom self-compassion seems like a worthwhile but unachievable strategy (Pauley & McPherson, 2010).”
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“Across several studies, participants showed increased lateral PFC activity when prompted to mindfully respond to emotionally provocative stimuli (Davidson et al., 2003; Farb et al., 2007).”
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“In repeated studies, compassion and empathy appear to activate the affective components of pain perception, namely the anterior cingulate and anterior insula (Carr et al., 2003; Singer et al., 2004).”
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“Baerensten et al. (2010) found that meditation introduced a pattern of brain connectivity recruiting auditory, thalamic, limbic and insular cortices, potentially constituting an up-regulated sensory network”
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“and decreased amygdala grey matter volume correlated with reduced stress ratings following MBSR (Holzel et al., 2010).”
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“Meditation experience has been linked to increased ability to recruit the insula and a proximal corticolimbic network during the volitional generation of compassion known as ‘loving-kindness-compassion’ meditation, in which participants focus their attention on generating and experiencing feelings of compassion for themselves and others (Lutz et al. 2008b).”
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“In expert meditators, open monitoring rather than concentrative attention lowered the affective rather than sensory components of pain (Perlman et al., 2010).”
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“Awareness for instance has been shown to eliminate subliminal priming effects on preferences (Murphy & Zajonc, 1993)”
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“Lazar and colleagues (2005) observed increased grey matter volume in interoceptive and sensory regions such as the insula, somatosensory cortex and parietal regions.”
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“Indeed, there appear to be distinct pathways in the brain that distinguish unfettered emotional reactivity from cognitive reappraisal and mindfulness.”
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“At its heart, emotional experience involves the integration of visceral signals from the limbic cortices through the cognitive appraisal of these signals in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) (Scherer et al., 2001; Davidson, 2002).”
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“These can combine to reduce a patient’s ability to enact reappraisal in the face of stressful stimuli.”
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“a pattern of self-critical elaboration liked to midline PFC reactivity in depression (Grimm et al., 2008; Cooney et al., 2010; Farb et al., 2011).”
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- Not checked yetcites Grimm et al., 2008
- Not checked yetcites Cooney et al., 2010
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“While both reappraisal and mindful emotion regulation likely share common features of attention”
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“In healthy individuals, cognitive reappraisal of emotion can occur through the top-down prefrontal regulation of limbic activity, using elaboration to recast initially negative appraisals as being less negative (Ochsner et al. 2002, 2004; Phan et al., 2005).”
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“Instead, it appears that for individuals with mood disorders, cognitive reappraisal may simply be an ineffective strategy”
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“a potential consequence of impaired top-down cognitive control is the emergence of exaggerated prefrontal recruitment in afflicted patients.”
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“Through the cultivation of attention to unelaborated, present moment sensation, mindfulness presents patients with a task that does not require the deployment of evaluative cognition.”
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“As mindfulness-based interventions begin with such concentrative practices, an early property of mindful emotion regulation appears to be the cingulate-driven cultivation of sustained awareness, despite the presence of salient impulses to evaluate or elaborate upon experience.”
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“In such situations, mindful emotion regulation may be of service, offering a non-evaluative means by which to attend to negative emotional experience.”
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“Thus, activating PFC regions in efforts to reappraise negative feelings may backfire, bringing attention to focus on dysphoric mood without a commensurate reduction in the intensity of negative feelings.”
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“Furthermore, by explicitly practicing equanimity, patients can begin to recognize and disengage from conceptual judgment in response to their sensory experiences.”
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“Mindfulness has been described as “paying attention to relevant aspects of experience in a nonjudgmental manner” (Ludwig & Kabat-Zinn, 2008) and differs from conventional emotional regulation strategies such as cognitive reappraisal, which relies on memory and evaluation to re-interpret negative experiences (Gross, 2002; Ochsner et al., 2004).”
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“Thus, it may be argued that one function of mindfulness training is to suspend or disrupt negative or self-critical appraisal associated with cortical midline activity.”
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“However, mindful attention does not inhibit initial evaluations insomuch as it limits the automatic expansion of initial evaluative reactions into activation of a broader set of implications about the self and the world.”
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“However, mindful emotion regulation does not aim to inhibit elaborative processing through thought avoidance, a strategy that predicts dysphoric affect (Ottenbreit & Dobson, 2004).”
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“This finding of increased primary sensation with a decoupling of affective appraisal is a direct analogue to mindful approach for dealing with negative emotions, to engage directly with the sensation rather than allow the habitual interpretation of these sensations to dominate cognition.”
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“The lack of grey matter changes in prefrontal regions is consistent with the idea that the locus of present moment, nonjudgmental awareness may lie outside the conventional PFC attention network.”
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“Yet rather than engaging widespread PFC regions, mindfulness training appears to target areas bridging the prefrontal and limbic regions, such as the anterior cingulate (Lane et al., 1997), subgenual cingulate (Mayberg et al., 1999) and anterior insula (Seeley, 2007).”
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“whereas PFC activation, particularly along the cortical midline, may be more diagnostic of a cognitively elaborated, conceptual self whose representation is extended to account for the permanence of the individual as a stable object over time (Kelley et al., 2002; Northoff et al., 2004).”
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“The more lateral aspects of the PFC also appear to be important for the direction of mindful attention.”
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“However, the primary experience of empathic feeling that may give rise to new interpretations about others again seem first to be driven by paralimbic activity in the thalamus and insula, which may then feed into new conceptual interpretations that recruit the cortical midline.”
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“Key to this employment of equanimity to reduce emotional reactivity is the intentional cultivation of awareness towards emotional information.”
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“as these ‘bridge’ regions between the PFC and limbic system have been argued to play a critical role in switching between evaluative and more task-oriented processes (Sridharan et al., 2008).”
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“Dysregulation of fronto-limbic control regions such as the anterior cingulate may lead to maladaptive, ruminative, and egocentric attention contributing to depressive affect (Pizzagalli, 2011)”
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“While mindfulness training hopes to hone emotion regulation skills, the tendency to respond mindfully to emotional challenges may be detectable in a trait-like fashion between individuals.”
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“The finding of hippocampal and insula grey matter changes with meditation training suggests that this alternate attention network may instead be situated in these paralimbic structures.”
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“Over the past 30 years, numerous patients have benefited from mindfulness-based group interventions (Baer 2003; Ospina et al., 2007)”
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“The midline PFC appears to be recruited in response to negative mood induction (Farb et al., 2010), reading self-referential trait words (Farb et al., 2007) and exposure to negative-self beliefs (Goldin et al., 2010).”
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“Encouragingly, short term mindfulness interventions appear to increase the ability to notice changes in the sensory field and refocus attention appropriately (Jha et al., 2007).”
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“Several other studies have observed more extensive reductions in cortical activity during meditation (Lou et al., 1999, Lazar et al., 2000, Baerensten et al., 2010, Ives-Deliperi 2011), an effect that appears to increase with greater meditation experience (Brefczynski-Lewis, 2007).”
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- Not checked yetcites Lou et al., 1999
- Not checked yetcites Lazar et al., 2000
- Not checked yetcites Baerensten et al., 2010
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“Non-judgmental attention appears to allow for novel and emergent feelings of self-compassion, which can powerfully attenuate an individual’s negative response to unpleasant events (Leary et al., 2007).”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Clinical Implications > Cultivation of Empathy/Compassion
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- Not checked yetcites Leary et al., 2007
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“In a congruent finding, patients with social anxiety disorder demonstrated a reduced amygdala response to a negative emotional challenge following MBSR, and reduced subjective sadness ratings when using the regulatory strategy of attending to their breath (Goldin et al. 2010).”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Clinical Implications > Reducing Automatic Affective Processing
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“In keeping with this theory, meditation practice has been associated with increased activity among the limbic system, thalamus, and anterior cingulate cortex, linking sensory information to the cortex (Newberg et al., 2001; Brefczynski-Lewis et al., 2007).”
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“A second study related MBSR training to greater connectivity within auditory and visual sensory networks, and during a listening task, greater PFC connectivity with auditory cortex and inhibition of visual cortex (Kilpatrick et al., 2011).”
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“More abstract feelings of social compassion appear to activate a similar network, though social compassion is longer lasting and later activating than empathy for physical pain (Immordino-Yang et al., 2009).”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Clinical Implications > Cultivation of Empathy/Compassion
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- Not checked yetcites Immordino-Yang et al., 2009
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“For example, a mindfulness intervention led to improved quality of life, depression, and fatigue scores in a Multiple Sclerosis population, but did not alter on ratings of physical symptoms such as lower and upper limb mobility (Grossman et al., 2010)”
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“Grey matter changes have been observed after as short a period as the 8-week MBSR training intervention, predicting increased hippocampal and posterior attention network volume (Holzel et al, 2011)”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Mindful Emotion Regulation
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- Not checked yetcites Holzel et al, 2011
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“Two recent studies of meditation’s effects on pain found reduction of cortical midline elaborative processing regions as well as increased activation of primary nocioceptive and sensory integration regions such as the insula and anterior cingulate (Zeidan, 2011; Grant, 2011).”
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- Not checked yetcites Zeidan, 2011
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“In mood disorders, self-compassion is endorsed as a meaningful therapeutic construct by many patients, whose chief difficulty lies in finding a way to realize this compassionate state (Pauley & McPherson, 2010).”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Clinical Implications > Cultivation of Empathy/Compassion
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“Way et al. (2010) linked the trait measure of dispositional mindfulness to protective non-reactivity in the amygdala during rest and also in response to sadness challenge, whereas depressive trait measures predicted an opposite, activating response.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Clinical Implications > Reducing Automatic Affective Processing
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“Dispositional mindfulness predicted a greater magnitude of this limbic-frontal tradeoff, suggesting that mindful participants were better able to leverage prefrontal attention networks to reduce stimulus-driven emotional reactivity.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Clinical Implications > Reducing Automatic Affective Processing
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- Not checked yetcites Creswell et al., 2007
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“A recent neuroimaging study linked self criticism to dorsal prefrontal regions such as the dorsolateral PFC and dorsal anterior cingulate, whereas self-reassurance was linked to activity in the ventrolateral PFC, temporal pole and insula (Longe et al., 2010).”
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“In one recent study by our group (Farb et al., 2007), the engagement of open, present-moment attention was associated with reductions in midline cortical activation but demonstrated novel activation of a right-lateralized network that was primarily characterized by sensory representations in the insula and secondary somatosensory cortices.”
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- Not checked yetcites Farb et al., 2007
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“When emotional information was consciously attended, the emotional faces evoked less of an amygdala response and engaged greater prefrontal cortical resources.”
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“Mood disorders, however, are broadly characterized by a failure to adaptively regulate emotion, due to heightened negative reactivity and increased self-focus (Clark et al., 1994).”
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- Not checked yetcites Clark et al., 1994
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“it is distinct from many forms of meditation in that it aims to broaden rather than focus attention, differing from purely concentrative practices that seek to sustain attention towards a single sensory object (Dunn et al., 1999; Lutz et al., 2008a).”
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- Not checked yetcites Dunn et al., 1999
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“Encouragingly, such sensory practices seem to activate distinct cortical regions from the dysfunctional prefrontal-limbic loop.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Mindful Emotion Regulation
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“Since cognitive elaboration automatically triggers negative self-judgments that cannot be voluntarily overridden, mindfulness training attempts to correct automatic dysphoric evaluation through an attention to sensation rather than evaluation.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Mindful Emotion Regulation
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“An important clinical implication of these findings is that for patients with a mood disorder, instructions to cognitively regulate negative emotion may be maladaptive, as emotional information from the limbic system is not impacted by efforts to engage the prefrontal cortices.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > A Neural Account of Emotion Regulation
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“Instead, habitual dysphoric interpretations are recreated during attempts to reappraise negative emotion, leading to rumination, in which elaborating on negative affect ironically perpetuates dysphoric mood (Nolen-Hoeksema, 2000; Watkins et al., 2008).”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > A Neural Account of Emotion Regulation
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- Not checked yetcites Nolen-Hoeksema, 2000
- Not checked yetcites Watkins et al., 2008
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“we argue that a model of mindful emotion regulation requires two processes that are distinct from reappraisal: 1) attention to present moment sensation, as distinct from delving into memory or cognitive elaboration, and 2) equanimity, the suspension of judging experience to be intrinsically good or bad.”
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“Normative strategies for emotion regulation are predicated on reappraising aversive events in a more positive, narrative based-context, or on behavioral strategies for the suppression of emotionally expressive behaviour (Goldin et al. 2008; Gross, 2002).”
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- Not checked yetcites Goldin et al. 2008
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“While mindfulness training influences transitory brain activity, it also appears to effect longer-term structural changes commensurate with the repeated activation of limbic and interoceptive cortices.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Mindful Emotion Regulation
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“These structural change data suggest that mindfulness training may be increasing the habitual capacity for encoding momentary experience while reducing the tendency to orient reflexively to emotionally arousing stimuli.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Mindful Emotion Regulation
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“Thus, one important function of mindful attention may be the recruitment and integration of primary sensory cortices into prefrontal regions supporting conscious awareness, as well as refining such integration to prevent distraction from unintended distracting stimuli.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Mindful Emotion Regulation
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“suggesting that improvements were limited to subjective assessments of well-being rather than reducing patient awareness of physical symptoms.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Clinical Implications > Reducing Automatic Affective Processing
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“Of course, as has been articulated by Siegle (2007), mindfulness is more than simply engaging in this present-moment awareness; the rich forms of evaluation for empathetic, moral, and self-referential processing associated with prefrontal default mode activity are valid and important aspects of experience.”
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“Of course, some executive control is required to manipulate the focus of attention in mindful emotion regulation.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Mindful Emotion Regulation
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“Instead, attention is positively directed towards present moment sensation, providing a non-conceptual and non-threatening focus for attention that does not rely upon cortical midline activity.”
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“Rather, by practicing the disengagement of habitual interpretative and evaluative responses during cognition, it may be possible to widen the scope of interpretation to form new meaning previously inhibited by a habitual way of seeing the world.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Mindful Emotion Regulation
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“It should be noted that empathic concern is not purely a visceral and perceptual process articulated through limbic and inferior parietal regions respectively; more analytic approaches to taking on another’s perspective appear to also recruit cortical midline regions such as the medial PFC and posterior cingulate (Decety and Jackson, 2004).”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Clinical Implications > Cultivation of Empathy/Compassion
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“In this fashion, automatic recruitment of temporally-extended, self-referential narrative generation may undergo a form of neural extinction, restoring autonomy to the central executive system and freeing it from its habitual applications”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Mindful Emotion Regulation
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“Mindfulness involves attending to contextual salience without concomitant recruitment of prefrontal evaluative processes, deploying attentional resources to recruit a network that limits habitual elaboration and self-referential narrative.”
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“Interestingly, the connectivity and grey matter plasticity data tend to include more limbic than prefrontal cortical regions, again suggesting that prefrontal regions may not be the critical targets of mindfulness training, but rather the PFC is affected by the redeployment of cognitive resources to less-rehearsed sensory pathways.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Mindful Emotion Regulation
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“In this fashion, mindful emotion regulation can be construed as a process of ‘turning toward’ momentary experience rather than an inhibition of cognition.”
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“These lateral regions may support more detached, objective, interoceptive and somatic awareness (Craig, 2002) that may serve as the primitive sensory representations of the “self””
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Mindful Emotion Regulation
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“Thus one long-term index of mindful emotion regulation is the reduction of salient threat detection in the face of emotional challenge, which may be useful in the assessment of treatment efficacy and patient vulnerability in behaviorally normalized cases.”
§ The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders > Clinical Implications > Reducing Automatic Affective Processing
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The neural mechanisms by which mindfulness improves mood regulation are not well understood.
“However, the neural mechanisms underlying mindful mood regulation are poorly understood.”
“our understanding of the mechanisms underlying adaptive affect regulation through the practice of mindfulness is still nascent.”
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Recent clinical studies have validated the efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions.
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“Mindfulness meditation has been shown to be therapeutic in emotion regulation [1–5].”
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“Mindfulness training has shown promising impacts on emotion regulation [84, 85].”
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“Some emotional regulation strategies were significant markers of depression levels, like self-blame, other-blame, and acceptance (Farb and Segal, 2012).”
From Knowledge of COVID-19 and Its Influence on Mindfulness, Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Psychological Flexibility in the Indian Community (2020) · cites this paper as Farb and Segal, 2012
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“Dysfunctional top-down emotion regulation in psychiatric conditions such as MDD (Johnstone et al., 2007) might be related to dysfunctional forms of self-evaluative processes such as rumination and worry (Farb and Segal, 2012).”
From Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation: Insights from Neurobiological, Psychological, and Clinical Studies (2017) · cites this paper as Farb and Segal, 2012
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“In particular, it is stated that bottom-up emotion regulation strategies (like those implied in mindfulness) don't require PFC and top-down mechanisms (Chambers et al., 2009; Farb and Segal, 2012; Chiesa et al., 2013; Grecucci et al., 2015a).”
From Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation: Insights from Neurobiological, Psychological, and Clinical Studies (2017) · cites this paper as Farb and Segal, 2012
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“In the field of mindfulness and emotion regulation, one main claim is that mindfulness might elicit a particular type of emotion regulation strategy often called “mindful emotion regulation” that relies on bottom-up mechanisms, in contrast to cognitive reappraisal, which relies on a top-down mechanism.”
From Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation: Insights from Neurobiological, Psychological, and Clinical Studies (2017) · cites this paper as Farb and Segal, 2012
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“Generally, the common view across authors is that “mindful emotion regulation” is a somehow unique emotion regulation strategy, the result of encountering diverse emotional states from a mindful mental state, including awareness and acceptance (Chambers et al., 2009; Farb and Segal, 2012; Chiesa et al., 2013; Grecucci et al., 2015a).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Farb, N. A. S., Anderson, A. K., & Segal, Z. V.
- Affiliations
- Rotman Research Institute (CA)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Farb, Norman A S
- Venue
- The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2012-02
- Volume
- 57
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 70-77
- ISSN
- 0706-7437 (ISSN-L)
- 1497-0015
- PMC
- PMC3303604
- OpenAlex
- W2184525448
- Cited by
- 366
- References
- 77
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 31 · 2015: 34 · 2014: 21 · 2013: 28 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 3.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- Health Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MT81164)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R34MH087723, R01MH066992, MH 087723)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- mindfulness, emotion regulation, mood disorders, neural mechanisms, anterior cingulate cortex, lateral prefrontal cortex, cognitive reappraisal, self-compassion, empathy, pain tolerance, insula, thalamus
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Awareness, Brain Mapping, Emotions, Empathy, Humans, Limbic System, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Prefrontal Cortex, Meditation, Mood Disorders
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