Evolutionary psychiatry: foundations, progress and challenges

RM Nesse�- World Psychiatry, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary biology provides a crucial foundation for medicine and behavioral science that
has been missing from psychiatry. Its absence helps to explain slow progress; its advent�…

Emotion regulation and the salience network: a hypothetical integrative model of fibromyalgia

AM Pinto, R Geenen, TD Wager, MA Lumley…�- Nature Reviews�…, 2023 - nature.com
Fibromyalgia is characterized by widespread pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances and other
symptoms, and has a substantial socioeconomic impact. Current biomedical and�…

[HTML][HTML] The role of social connection on the experience of COVID-19 related post-traumatic growth and stress

M Matos, K McEwan, M Kanovsk�, J Halamov�…�- PLoS�…, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Historically social connection has been an important way through which
humans have coped with large-scale threatening events. In the context of the COVID-19�…

[BOOK][B] Compassion focused therapy: Clinical practice and applications

P Gilbert, G Simos - 2022 - books.google.com
Compassion Focused Therapy: Clinical Practice and Applications offers evidence-based
guidance and extensive insight into the science behind compassion focused therapy. The�…

[HTML][HTML] Compassion protects mental health and social safeness during the COVID-19 pandemic across 21 countries

M Matos, K McEwan, M Kanovsk�, J Halamov�…�- Mindfulness, 2022 - Springer
Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic is having an unprecedented detrimental impact on
mental health in people around the world. It is important therefore to explore factors that may�…

[HTML][HTML] Nurturing compassion in schools: A randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of a Compassionate Mind Training program for teachers

M Matos, I Albuquerque, A Galhardo, M Cunha…�- PLoS�…, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Objectives Schools are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis, with teachers
reporting high levels of stress and burnout, which has adverse consequences to their mental�…

[HTML][HTML] Creating a Compassionate World: Addressing the Conflicts Between Sharing and Caring Versus Controlling and Holding Evolved Strategies

P Gilbert�- Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
For thousands of years, various spiritual traditions and social activists have appealed to
humans to adopt compassionate ways of living to address the suffering of life. Yet, along�…

[HTML][HTML] Compassion as a skill: A comparison of contemplative and evolution-based approaches

P Gilbert, W Van Gordon�- Mindfulness, 2023 - Springer
The editors to this volume posed a series of fascinating questions relating to how seeing
compassion as a skill can help us understand its nature, cultivation and effects within�…

Awedyssey: design tensions in eliciting self-transcendent emotions in virtual reality to support mental well-being and connection

N Miller, ER Stepanova, J Desnoyers-Stewart…�- Proceedings of the�…, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Access to nature and feeling connection is critical for mental health and well-being. These
benefits may be mediated by self-transcendent emotions evoked by nature. We need to�…

Neurophysiological and psychosocial mechanisms of fibromyalgia: a comprehensive review and call for an integrative model

AM Pinto, M Lu�s, R Geenen, F Palavra…�- Neuroscience &�…, 2023 - Elsevier
Research into the neurobiological and psychosocial mechanisms involved in fibromyalgia
has progressed remarkably in recent years. Despite this, current accounts of fibromyalgia fail�…