Punishment on Pause: Preliminary Evidence That Mindfulness Training Modifies Neural Responses in a Reactive Aggression Task.

Reactive aggression, a hostile retaliatory response to perceived threat, has been attributed to failures in emotion regulation. Interventions for reactive aggression have largely focused on cognitive control training, which target top-down emotion regulation mechanisms to inhibit aggressive impulses. Recent theory suggests that mindfulness training (MT) improves emotion regulation both top-down and bottom-up neural mechanisms and has thus been proposed as an alternative treatment for aggression.

Psychological Distress and Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Services Among Black Women: the Role of Past Mental Health Treatment.

Black women are one of the most underserved and undertreated minority groups in the USA. While Black women generally do not seek professional psychological services to manage psychological distress, recent findings suggest an openness to mental health treatment as a form of self-care. This study investigated the relationship among symptoms of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress as a predictor of attitudes toward professional psychological help (i.

Influence of physiological and psychological factors on cognitive dysfunction in heart failure patients.

Aim: Our study aimed to examine factors that contribute to cognitive dysfunction in patients with heart failure (HF).

Background: Although a majority of patients with HF have mild to moderate cognitive impairment, little is known about factors that influence progressive cognitive decline in this population.

Methods: We examined the influence of physiological factors (NYHA functional class II - IV, ejection fraction, co-morbidity burden, polypharmacy), psychosocial factors (anxiety, depression, evaluation for advanced therapy), and associated toxicities (anticholinergic drug burden), on cognitive dysfunction.