Objectives: Traumatic orthopedic injuries are a top cause of hospital visits in the U.S. The Toolkit for Optimal Recovery (TOR) is a brief mind-body intervention that targets catastrophic thinking and pain anxiety following orthopedic injury.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHunter-gatherer populations underwent a mass extinction in the Neolithic, and in present times face challenges such as explicit sedentarisation policies. An exception is in Nepal, where the nomadic Raute people receive monthly governmental individual payments. One consequence of the money transfers has been a significant increase in alcohol consumption, with nearly all individuals drinking industrially produced alcohol.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This qualitative study aimed to: (1) identify socio-ecological barriers to behavior change-oriented dementia (AD/ADRD) prevention from the perspectives of healthcare professionals, and (2) propose strategies to address these barriers during a clinical trial for an AD/ADRD prevention program ().
Method: Multidisciplinary healthcare professionals involved in geriatric care ( = 26, experience > 17 years) from diverse clinics within a medical center participated in focus groups. Using the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM), 5 focus groups were conducted to identify individual, interpersonal, institutional, community, and societal barriers.
Background: Lifestyle behavior change and mindfulness have direct and synergistic effects on cognitive functioning and may prevent Alzheimer disease and Alzheimer disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD). We are iteratively developing and testing My Healthy Brain (MHB), the first mindfulness-based lifestyle group program targeting AD/ADRD risk factors in older adults with subjective cognitive decline. Our pilot studies (National Institutes of Health [NIH] stage 1A) have shown that MHB is feasible, acceptable, and associated with improvement in lifestyle behavior and cognitive outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA systematic review and meta-analysis investigated randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) targeting lifestyle behaviors commonly associated with brain health in adults. Data sources included Ovid Medline, Ovid PsycINFO, CINAHL [EBSCO], Embase, Cochrane Library [Ovid], Web of Science, and https://ClinicalTrials.gov.
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