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A Large‐Scale Study on the Relation Between Multilingualism and Social Traits in Adults With and Without Autism Diagnoses

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by persistent difficulties in social interaction and communication alongside restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. Emerging evidence suggests that bi/multilingualism may enhance social interaction skills, yet prior research has largely ...
Margreet Vogelzang, Sean Dong Wei Gan, Jamie Setch   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What participants think about learning Mindfulness-Based Programs online

BMC Psychology
Objectives Little is known about how participants experience Mindfulness-Based Programs (MBPs) that are delivered online. Understanding how online delivery is experienced by participants could inform any adaptations needed for online delivery of MBPs and
Alison M. Burton, Bridgette O’Neill, Gemma M. Griffith   +2 more
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Enhancing Subjective Well-Being in Taiwanese University Students Through an Eight-Week Mindfulness-Based Program: A Pilot Study

Behavioral Sciences
While mindfulness has demonstrated extensive benefits across diverse populations, research on its integration as a formal course and its effects on subjective well-being (SWB), particularly among Taiwanese university students, remains limited. This pilot
Li-Jen Lin, Su-Ping Yu, Yu-Hsun Lin, Yi-Lang Chen   +3 more
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Through Parents' Eyes: Perspectives on Child Development and Family Experience During ESDM Intervention

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Early intensive intervention for autistic children aims to support developmental progress in social and communication domains. Although outcomes are typically assessed using standardized measures of child development, parental perspectives during early intervention remain largely understudied.
Kenza Latrèche, Fiona Journal, Michel Godel, Martina Franchini, Nada Kojovic, David Cimasoni, Marcin Czajkowski, Lucie Delieutraz, Chloé Laubu, Marie Schaer   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

MIND THE GAP [PDF]

International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2001
We discuss an optimisation criterion for the exact renormalisation group based on the inverse effective propagator, which displays a gap. We show that a simple extremisation of the gap stabilises the flow, leading to better convergence of approximate solutions towards the physical theory. This improves the reliability of truncations, most relevant for
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Navigating adverse immunostimulation: A practical guide for clinical researchers

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Problem Setting As drug development moves towards more complex products, early clinical development programmes are increasingly hampered by unwanted and/or unexpected activation of the immune system (adverse immune stimulation, AIS). Solution At the Centre for Human Drug Research, we have introduced standardized procedures to make AIS manageable, while
Juliette A. van den Noort, Anouk C. Meijs, Naomi B. Klarenbeek, Matthijs Moerland   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching Mindfulness-Based Programs online: perceived costs and benefits

BMC Psychology
Objectives This study examines the demographics of those who teach Mindfulness-Based Programs (MBPs) online, and their experiences of the online teaching process.
Alison M. Burton, Rebecca S. Crane, Gemma M. Griffith   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Examining the impact of a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction intervention on the health of urban South Africans

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2018
Background: Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has been found to have significant health benefits in studies conducted in the global North. Aim: This study examined the effects of MBSR on stress, mood states and medical symptoms among urban South ...
Simon L. Whitesman, Michelle Hoogenhout, Linda Kantor, Katherine J. Leinberger, Anik Gevers   +4 more
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Exploring new avenues: Psychedelic‐assisted therapy for young people

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Rates of mental illness in young people are increasing, whereas the development of novel mental health treatments has not significantly progressed. Psychedelic‐assisted therapy, using substances such as psilocybin and 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), has shown potential in the treatment of mental illnesses in the adult population, including ...
Ioanna Artemis Vamvakopoulou, Dasha Nicholls, David J. Nutt, Martina Di Simplicio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Freedom of the mind [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013
Mind wandering, task-independent thought, spontaneous thinking, free associating, creative imagining are some of the terms used to describe what occurs to our mind when we notice its functioning, or when we allow it the freedom to be in its natural condition: open, aware and spontaneously fluid.
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