A descriptive study on holistic nursing education: Student perspectives on integrating mindfulness, spirituality, and professionalism.

Background: Mindfulness has gained prominence in education as a method for enhancing student well-being and learning, yet its integration into nursing curricula remains underexplored. Student lived experiences are essential to understanding the potential benefits and challenges of mindful nursing practice.

Aim: To explore the lived experiences of undergraduate nursing students who practice mindfulness as it relates to nursing education.

Discovering nurse mode: A phenomenological study of nursing student role micro-transitions.

Aim: To explore the experiences of undergraduate nursing students in navigating daily micro-transitions between nursing and non-nursing roles.

Background: Nursing students develop professional role identity through socialization, experience, and practice while simultaneously managing pre-existing personal roles. This dynamic creates a training ground for future sustainable practice.

Does Cognitive Broadening Reduce Anger?

Past theory and research have suggested that motivationally intense affective states narrow cognitive scope. Research has also suggested manipulations that broaden cognitive scope reduce responses to appetitive positive affective stimuli and disgusting stimuli, thus suggesting that cognitive broadening reduces motivational intensity. This led to the hypothesis that cognitive broadening would reduce the approach-motivated negative emotion of anger.

Neural communication in posttraumatic growth.

Posttraumatic growth (PTG), or positive psychological changes following exposure to traumatic events, is commonly reported among trauma survivors. In the present study, we examined neural correlates of PTG in 106 veterans with PTSD and 193 veteran controls using task-free magnetoencephalography (MEG), diagnostic interviews and measures of PTG, and traumatic event exposure. Global synchronous neural interactions (SNIs) were significantly modulated downward with increasing PTG scores in controls (p = .

DSM-5 personality traits discriminate between posttraumatic stress disorder and control groups.

The relevance of personality traits to the study of psychopathology has long been recognized, particularly in terms of understanding patterns of comorbidity. In fact, a multidimensional personality trait model reflecting five higher-order personality dimensions-negative affect, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition, and psychoticism-is included in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and represented in the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5). However, evaluation of these dimensions and underlying personality facets within clinical samples has been limited.

The Number of Cysteine Residues per Mole in Apolipoprotein E Is Associated With the Severity of PTSD Re-Experiencing Symptoms.

Apolipoprotien E (ApoE) is involved in critical neural functions and is associated with various neuropsychiatric disorders. ApoE exists in three isoforms that differ in the number of cysteine residues per mole (CysR/mole). This study evaluated associations between this informative ordinal biochemical scale (CysR/mole) and symptom severity in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or subthreshold PTSD.

MitraClip for papillary muscle rupture in patient with cardiogenic shock.

We report the successful use of the MitraClip device (Abbott Vascular, Santa Clara, CA) in a 68-year-old man with posterolateral ST-elevation myocardial infarction complicated by papillary muscle rupture and cardiogenic shock.

Toward an understanding of the emotion-modulated startle eyeblink reflex: the case of anger.

Three studies investigated the effect of angering pictures on the startle eyeblink response, based on anger's unique identity as an approach-oriented negative affect. In Study 1, eyeblinks to startling noise probes during angering and neutral pictures did not differ, despite angering pictures being rated higher on arousal and anger and more negative in valence. Study 2 replicated Study 1; also, dysphoric participants exhibited potentiated eyeblinks to probes during angering pictures much like those to probes during fear/disgust stimuli.

Anger and testosterone: evidence that situationally-induced anger relates to situationally-induced testosterone.

Testosterone has been shown to relate to power, dominance, social status, and aggression. However, no research has related situationally induced changes in testosterone to subjective emotional experience. Based on the fact that anger relates to power, dominance, social status, and aggression, we predicted that testosterone would be uniquely related to the subjective experience of anger.

Asymmetric frontal cortical activity and negative affective responses to ostracism.

Ostracism arouses negative affect. However, little is known about variables that influence the intensity of these negative affective responses. Two studies fill this void by incorporating work on approach- and withdrawal-related emotional states and their associated cortical activations.

The role of asymmetric frontal cortical activity in emotion-related phenomena: a review and update.

Conceptual and empirical approaches to the study of the role of asymmetric frontal cortical activity in emotional processes are reviewed. Although early research suggested that greater left than right frontal cortical activity was associated with positive affect, more recent research, primarily on anger, suggests that greater left than right frontal cortical activity is associated with approach motivation, which can be positive (e.g.

Preinsertion paramedian ultrasound guidance for epidural anesthesia.

Background: Ultrasound is receiving growing interest for improving the guidance of needle insertion in epidural anesthesia. Defining a paramedian ultrasound scanning technique would be helpful for correctly identifying the vertebral level. Finding surrogate measures of the depth of the epidural space may also improve the ease of scanning.

PANAS positive activation is associated with anger.

As a prototypic negative emotion, anger would seem to have little in common with positive activation, as measured by the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; D. Watson, L. A.

Jealousy: novel methods and neural correlates.

Because of the difficulties surrounding the evocation of jealousy, past research has relied on reactions to hypothetical scenarios and recall of past experiences of jealousy. Both methodologies have limitations, however. The present research was designed to develop a method of evoking jealousy in the laboratory that would be well controlled, ethically permissible, and psychologically meaningful.

Circadian and seasonal variability of resting frontal EEG asymmetry.

Asymmetrical frontal cortical activity at resting baseline relates to important aspects of personality and psychopathology. However, some research has failed to replicate these relationships, perhaps because of situational influences. The present research investigates two situational variables, circadian and seasonal variability.

Asymmetrical frontal ERPs, emotion, and behavioral approach/inhibition sensitivity.

The present study sought to extend past research on frontal brain asymmetry and individual differences by examining relationships of individual differences in behavioral inhibition/approach system (BIS/BAS) sensitivity with asymmetrical frontal event-related brain responses to startle probes presented during viewing of affective pictures. One hundred and ten participants were shown unpleasant, neutral, and pleasant affective pictures, and presented startle probes during picture presentations. Individual differences in BIS sensitivity related to relatively greater right frontal N100 amplitude to startle probes presented during pleasant and unpleasant pictures, whereas individual differences in BAS sensitivity related to reduced left frontal P300 amplitude to startle probes presented during pleasant pictures.

Proneness to hypomania predicts EEG coherence between left motor cortex and left prefrontal cortex.

Previous research has demonstrated that hypomania is associated with approach motivation and activity in the left prefrontal cortex (PFC). Other research has linked left motor cortex excitability to approach motivation, suggesting the existence of connections between the motor cortex and PFC. The present research extends this work using unilateral hand contractions to manipulate contralateral cortical activity, and examining the relationship between motor cortex and PFC inter-electrode EEG coherence and hypomania.

The role of asymmetrical frontal cortical activity in aggression.

Aggression correlates with relatively greater left than right frontal electroencephalographic activity (inverse of EEG alpha power). The present experiment extends this research by manipulating frontal asymmetry and examining its effect on aggression. Participants were assigned to increase left frontal activation or increase right frontal activation by contracting their contralateral hand.