Brain and behavior changes associated with an abbreviated 4-week mindfulness-based stress reduction course in back pain patients

Brain and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1-13

  Braden, B Blair ^a   Pipe, Teri B ^b   Smith, Ryan ^a,c   Glaspy, Tyler K ^a   Deatherage, Brandon R ^a   Baxter, Leslie C ^a  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Back pain; Depression; Frontal lobe; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Mindfulness; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BACKACHE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BOLD SIGNAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; MINIMAL BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; NEUROREHABILITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STRESS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BACK PAIN; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AWARENESS; BACK PAIN; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84959208566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.443     Document Type: Article

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