Innovations in practice: group mindfulness for adolescent anxiety - results of an open trial.

Background: Group Mindfulness Therapy (GMT) is a program tailored for adolescents that targets anxiety with mindfulness skills including present moment awareness, mindfulness in everyday life (breathing, eating, walking), body scan, loving-kindness, and self-acceptance. Youth with anxiety may benefit from mindfulness exercises precisely because they learn to redirect their mind, and presumably their attention, away from wandering in the direction of worry and negative self-appraisals and toward greater acceptance of internal states. This open trial assessed the feasibility and initial effectiveness of GMT in a school setting.

Neuropsychological near normality and brain structure abnormality in schizophrenia.

Objective: Cognitive deficits are prominent in schizophrenia. Patients have an average score one standard deviation below normal on a broad spectrum of cognitive tests. It has been repeatedly noted, however, that 20%-25% of patients differ from this general pattern and score close to normal on neuropsychological testing.

Test-retest stability of neuropsychological testing and individual differences in variability in schizophrenia outpatients.

The accurate measurement of neurocognitive function requires stable and reliable instruments. These assessments are critically important as correlates, predictors, and outcome measures of psychopathology, neuropathology, and treatment. Particularly, in studies that evaluate the impact of treatments on neurocognitive function, it is essential that their reliability as repeated measures be quantified.