mind-body

Mindfulness Rebranded: Misappropriation in Modern Medicine How Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Vision of Mindfulness Became Medical Dogma LONG COVID ADVOCACY MAY 21, 2025 Quote: Cognitive Therapies: Part One Welcome to this critical exploration of therapeutic uses of mindfulness and meditation in medicine...

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06933173

This app was shared on a FB Group recently. There is only basic information on the website and I have not tried the app myself. I have no idea of who is behind it and I am dubious about it...

Amygdala Insula Retraining in the Management of Long COVID Symptoms https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05851846?cond=Long%20COVID&aggFilters=status:not&rank=3 Brief Summary The goal of the study is to compare a mind body intervention against usual care in patients with fatigue with long...

Primary motor cortex (M1) has been thought to form a continuous somatotopic homunculus extending down precentral gyrus from foot to face representations. The motor homunculus has remained a textbook pillar of functional neuroanatomy, despite evidence for concentric functional zones and maps of...

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04854772?term=donnino&draw=2&rank=3

Opinion piece in the BMJ Conclusion Going forward, we recommend: Acknowledging that patients with long term conditions may experience challenging forms of “identity loss” which may lead them to feel more vulnerable. Addressing stigma in healthcare as well as in communities and workplaces...

What's your top article or paper (or even a short book) that you'd send to somebody from a scientific background who is semi-convinced by mind-body theory and you want to explain to them, scientifically, the problems with it? Without sounding like you're being skeptical of the importance of...

Abstract Background and Objectives: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a chronic condition distinguished by disabling fatigue associated with post-exertional malaise, as well as changes to sleep, autonomic functioning, and cognition. Mind-body interventions (MBIs)...

THE US National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health: Complementary, Alternative, or Integrative Health: What’s In a Name? https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/complementary-alternative-or-integrative-health-whats-in-a-name I think this is a development that's observable not only in...

https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/chronic-fatigue-syndrome

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13030-019-0171-2 eta: surprisingly 'tailored' to ME symptoms but uses CFQ

I haven't read past the abstract, but it looks interesting. Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation Abstract (my bolding); https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691617709589

(Not a recommendation.) To cure my chronic pain, I had to learn about the links between mind and body. The Guardian 1 Jul 2019 The BPS model of chronic pain proposed by Sarno, unresolved trauma etc, is what Howard Schubiner et al are suggesting is also applicable to ME/CFS. (As I have...

The Mind-Body Syndrome Study by Daniel Maroti and Robert Johansson at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden is currently recruiting. (This is not a recommendation!) It's an online treatment focused on emotions. It's called "MBS-studien" in Swedish. http://mbsstudien.se/ More info about Maroti's...

https://www.efna.net/new-brain-mind-and-pain-book-of-evidence-released-for-the-2019-2024-eu-mandate/ Direct link to document (PDF), http://www.brainmindpain.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/BMP-Book-of-Evidence-%E2%80%93-2019-2024-web.pdf

Moderator note: These posts have been moved from another thread. They previously followed this post: https://www.s4me.info/threads/ethical-classification-of-me-cfs-in-the-united-kingdom-2019-diane-oleary.8082/page-8#post-144988 I apologise for fulfilling Godwin's law in my last post, which was...

The replication crisis is killing psychologists’ theory of how the body influences the mind An excellent article (IMO) that examines some very important implications of the replication crisis in psychology in areas relating to the mind-body connection. Specifically, the "embodied cognition"...

There's a new film on the way about treating pain with mind-body medicine, (NOT a recommendation); "THIS MIGHT HURT is a feature-length documentary that explores the chronic pain epidemic by following a group of patients as they attempt a last-resort treatment called mind-body medicine."...

http://www.universitytimes.ie/2019/02/an-unhealthy-mind-can-lead-to-an-unhealthy-brain-lets-not-forget-that/ :eek: :rolleyes: :jawdrop: @Tom Kindlon, seeing as "The University Times is Ireland’s largest student newspaper" might this be of interest to you? And other Advocates from Eire.