The potential impact of mindfulness on exposure and extinction learning in anxiety disorders

Treanor, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2011.02.003

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“…With acceptance-based interventions, conditioned craving responses are held in awareness without acting upon them nor resisting them. This awareness may facilitate extinction learning through increased cognizance of multiple conditioned stimuli, without acting upon them (Treanor, 2011). On the one hand, acceptance bares similarity to methods that decrease sensitivity to external cues, such as cue exposure treatment and exposure with response prevention.…”

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confidence: 98%

Accepting or suppressing the desire to eat: Investigating the short-term effects of acceptance-based craving regulation

Alberts¹,

Thewissen²,

Middelweerd³

2013

Eating Behaviors

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Section: Baselinementioning

confidence: 98%

Accepting or suppressing the desire to eat: Investigating the short-term effects of acceptance-based craving regulation

Alberts¹,

Thewissen²,

Middelweerd³

2013

Eating Behaviors

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“…Although relatively few studies have explored this possibility, there is some evidence that mindfulness-based practices involve exposure, extinction, and reconsolidation processes [see (Holzel et al, 2011a; Treanor, 2011) for review]. Multiple morphometric studies have demonstrated structural changes in the circuitry related to extinction following mindfulness training of as little as 8-weeks (Lazar et al, 2000; Holzel et al, 2008, 2011b; Luders et al, 2009).…”

Section: Six Component Neurocognitive Mechanisms Of Mindfulnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness

Vago

Silbersweig

2012

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Mindfulness—as a state, trait, process, type of meditation, and intervention has proven to be beneficial across a diverse group of psychological disorders as well as for general stress reduction. Yet, there remains a lack of clarity in the operationalization of this construct, and underlying mechanisms. Here, we provide an integrative theoretical framework and systems-based neurobiological model that explains the mechanisms by which mindfulness reduces biases related to self-processing and creates a sustainable healthy mind. Mindfulness is described through systematic mental training that develops meta-awareness (self-awareness), an ability to effectively modulate one's behavior (self-regulation), and a positive relationship between self and other that transcends self-focused needs and increases prosocial characteristics (self-transcendence). This framework of self-awareness, -regulation, and -transcendence (S-ART) illustrates a method for becoming aware of the conditions that cause (and remove) distortions or biases. The development of S-ART through meditation is proposed to modulate self-specifying and narrative self-networks through an integrative fronto-parietal control network. Relevant perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral neuropsychological processes are highlighted as supporting mechanisms for S-ART, including intention and motivation, attention regulation, emotion regulation, extinction and reconsolidation, prosociality, non-attachment, and decentering. The S-ART framework and neurobiological model is based on our growing understanding of the mechanisms for neurocognition, empirical literature, and through dismantling the specific meditation practices thought to cultivate mindfulness. The proposed framework will inform future research in the contemplative sciences and target specific areas for development in the treatment of psychological disorders.

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“…Similarly, many tCBT and rCBT approaches have been infused with mindfulness meditation practices. Treanor (2011) recently reviewed findings and proposed how mindfulness practices improve exposure therapy via enhanced attention capacity, better discrimination and recall of fear cues, and an increased tolerance to remain in contact with fearful stimuli.…”

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United We Stand: Emphasizing Commonalities Across Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies

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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has a rich history of alleviating the suffering associated with mental disorders. Recently, there have been exciting new developments, including multi-component approaches, incorporated alternative therapies (e.g., meditation), targeted and cost-effective technologies, and integrated biological and behavioral frameworks. These field-wide changes have led some to emphasize the differences among variants of CBT. Here, we draw attention to commonalities across cognitive-behavioral therapies, including shared goals, change principles, and therapeutic processes. Specifically, we offer a framework for examining common CBT characteristics that emphasizes behavioral adaptation as a unifying goal and three core change principles, namely (1) context engagement to promote adaptive imagining and enacting of new experiences; (2) attention change to promote adaptive sustaining, shifting, and broadening of attention; and (3) cognitive change to promote adaptive perspective taking on events so as to alter verbal meanings. Further, we argue that specific intervention components including behavioral exposure/activation, attention training, acceptance/tolerance, decentering/defusion, and cognitive reframing may be emphasized to a greater or lesser degree by different treatment packages but are still fundamentally common therapeutic processes that are present across approaches and are best understood by their relationships to these core CBT change principles. We conclude by arguing for shared methodological and design frameworks for investigating unique and common characteristics to advance a unified and strong voice for CBT in a widening, increasingly multimodal and interdisciplinary, intervention science.

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The potential impact of mindfulness on exposure and extinction learning in anxiety disorders

Cited by 110 publications

References 62 publications

Accepting or suppressing the desire to eat: Investigating the short-term effects of acceptance-based craving regulation

Accepting or suppressing the desire to eat: Investigating the short-term effects of acceptance-based craving regulation

Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness

United We Stand: Emphasizing Commonalities Across Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies

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