We randomly assigned 71 student participants to an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) group training or a wait list. All completed measures at preintervention, 1-month postintervention, 2-month follow-up. Students receiving ACT exhibited significantly reduced levels of general psychological distress negative emotional symptoms Mental health outcomes for were mediated by increases in flexib...

Background Physical fitness is a crucial variable in people with severe mental illness as these people could be more independent and improve their job opportunities. The present study compared the physical fitness of physically active and inactive people with severe mental illness. Methods Physical fitness was evaluated in sixty-two people with severe mental illness using 11 physical tests th...

An association between memory and executive dysfunction (ED) has been demonstrated in patients with mixed neurological disorders. We aimed to investigate the impact of ED in memory tasks of children with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). We evaluated 36 children with TLE and 28 controls with tests for memory, learning, attention, mental flexibility, and mental tracking. Data analysis was composed o...

Adaptability is purported to be a key mental resource and refers an individual's cognitive, behavioral, emotional regulation (or adjustment) in situations of change, novelty, uncertainty. Psychological flexibility person's capacity allow experience acceptance negative thoughts feelings with mindful awareness guided by commitment goal-driven action according their self-chosen values. It importan...

In this issue of Neuron, Stokes et al. (2013) demonstrate that cortical neurons that adapt their properties with task demands form patterns reflecting the shifting mental states needed to solve the task. Adaptive neurons may be critical to hallmarks of cognition: behavioral complexity and flexibility.

Assisting a client to change their belief system has shown to be positively correlated with one’s mental health. Therefore, many therapists might agree that one goal of therapy is for their client to change their own belief systems in order to experience positive change. So then why, when confronted with a new experience or new information, does one individual choose to change their belief syst...

In Parkinson's disease, mental disturbances frequently accompany the typical motor disorder. Subcortical dementia develops in 10 to 20% of patients. Contrary to the dementia of Alzheimer's type, the apraxia-aphasia-amnesia syndrome is uncommon. Depression and specific impairment of speech, visuospatial functions, and memory are present in an important proportion of patients. As a principal feat...

BACKGROUND Middle-aged women are at risk of weight gain and associated comorbidities. Deliberate restriction of food intake (dieting) produces short-term weight loss but is largely unsuccessful for long-term weight management. Two promising approaches for the prevention of weight gain are intuitive eating (ie, eating in accordance with hunger and satiety signals) and the development of greater ...