Objective. To investigate the effects of an 8-week meditation program on perceived stress, sleep, mood, and related outcomes in adults with cognitive impairment and their caregivers. Methods. Community-dwelling adults with a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment or early-stage Alzheimer's disease, together with their live-in caregivers, were enrolled in the study. After a brief training, parti...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine changes in sexual functioning during treatment for lung cancer and the extent to which age, gender, social support, and mood status affect sexual dysfunction. DESIGN Prospective, exploratory. SETTING Outpatient cancer clinic. SAMPLE 59 of 84 eligible patients diagnosed with small cell or non-small cell lung cancer. METHODS The Derogatis Interview for Sexual...

Earthing (grounding) refers to bringing the body in contact with the Earth. Health benefits were previously reported, but no study exists about mood. This study was conducted to assess if Earthing improves mood. 40 adult participants were either grounded or sham-grounded (no grounding) for 1 hr. while relaxing in a comfortable recliner chair equipped with a conductive pillow, mat, and patches c...

Recent studies have shown that self-perceived health status (HS) in Parkinson's disease (PD) is associated with motor, cognitive, or mood symptoms, with the greatest association typically occurring with mood. The purpose of this study was to determine if these associations are present in nondepressed and nondemented individuals with PD by using sensitive neuropsychological measures and statisti...

This article introduces a single-item scale, the Affect Grid, designed as a quick means of assessing affect along the dimensions of pleasure-displeasure and arousal-sleepiness. The Affect Grid is potentially suitable for any study that requires judgments about affect of either a descriptive or a subjective kind. The scale was shown to have adequate reliability, convergent validity, and discrimi...

This paper introduces methods used for Music Mood Classification to assist in the automated tagging of television programme theme tunes for the first time. The methods employed use a knowledge driven approach with tailored parameters extractable from the Matlab MIR Toolbox [1]. Four new features were developed, three based on tonality and one on tempo, to enable a degree of quantified tagging, ...

Objective: Although there is strong evidence that childhood trauma is associated with the development of depression and anxiety, relatively few studies have explored potential mediating factors for this relationship. The present study aimed to evaluate the mediating role of rumination in the link between childhood trauma and mood status such as depression, anxiety and affective lability. Materi...

BACKGROUND Routine mood screening is recommended after stroke. However, clinicians report difficulty selecting appropriate tools from the wide range available. We aimed to systematically review the psychometric properties and clinical utility of mood screening tools for stroke survivors. METHOD Electronic databases (AMED, EMBASE, CINAHL, Medline and PsycINFO) were searched to identify studies...

Monoamines play a significant role in the regulation of mood and emotion. While the selective effects of serotonin and catecholamine depletion on mood have been described, the effects of simultaneous monoamine depletion on subjective measures of mood and emotional responsiveness are yet to be examined. The current study aimed to investigate the effects of simultaneous monoamine depletion on moo...

BACKGROUND Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common and highly burdensome sleep disorder. While relaxation therapies, including yoga, are often recommended for RLS management, rigorous supporting research is sparse. The goal of this preliminary study was to assess the effects of yoga on RLS symptoms and related outcomes in women with RLS. METHODS Participants were 13 nonsmoking women with mod...