Nicholas Van Dam

The Effects of Mindfulness and Meditation on Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability: A Meta-Analysis

Lydia Brown, Alora A Rando, Kristina Eichel, Nicholas T Van Dam, Christopher M Celano, Jeff C Huffman, Meg E Morris

Journal article  |  2021  |  PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE

OBJECTIVE: Heart rate variability (HRV) is a marker of autonomic nervous system function associated with both physical and mental ..

Refinement and Validation of the Balanced Inventory of Mindfulness-Related Skills (BIMS)

Stephanie S Padmanabham, Zarina R Bilgrami, Tory Eisenlohr-Moul, Nicholas T Van Dam

Journal article  |  2021  |  MINDFULNESS

Objectives: The goal of the current study was to refine and validate a revision of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)..

Alexithymia in post-traumatic stress disorder is not just emotion numbing: Systematic review of neural evidence and clinical implications

Andrea Putica, Nicholas T Van Dam, Trevor Steward, James Agathos, Kim Felmingham, Meaghan O'Donnell

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

• PTSD with alexithymia and PTSD-related emotion numbing show unique neural profiles. • Alexithymia is linked to alterations in t..

Intrinsic organization of cortical networks predicts state anxiety: an functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study

Lian Duan, Nicholas T Van Dam, Hui Ai, Pengfei Xu

Journal article  |  2020  |  TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY

Although state anxiety has been characterized by hyper-responsive subcortical activity and its bottom-up connectivity with cortica..

Underestimating harm in mindfulness-based stress reduction.

Nicholas T Van Dam, Julieta Galante

Journal article  |  2020  |  Psychol Med

Mindfulness meditation alters neural activity underpinning working memory during tactile distraction

Michael Yufeng Wang, Gabrielle Freedman, Kavya Raj, Bernadette Mary Fitzgibbon, Caley Sullivan, Wei-Lin Tan, Nicholas Van Dam, Paul B Fitzgerald, Neil W Bailey

Journal article  |  2020  |  COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Evidence suggests that mindfulness meditation (MM) improves selective attention and reduces distractibility by enhancing top-down ..

Amygdala-prefrontal connectivity modulates loss aversion bias in anxious individuals

Pengfei Xu, Nicholas T Van Dam, Marie-Jose van Tol, Xueyi Shen, Zaixu Cui, Ruolei Gu, Shaozheng Qin, Andre Aleman, Jin Fan, Yue-jia Luo

Journal article  |  2020  |  NEUROIMAGE

Anxious individuals tend to make pessimistic judgments in decision making under uncertainty. While this phenomenon is commonly att..

Letter to the Editor: Miscommunicating Mindfulness

Nicholas T Van Dam, Marieke van Vugt, David R Vago, Laura Schmalzl, Clifford D Saron, Andrew Olendzki, Ted Meissner, Sara W Lazar, Jolie Gorchov, Kieran CR Fox, Brent A Field, Willoughby Britton, Julie Brefczynski-Lewis, David E Meyer

Journal article  |  2020  |  PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Effects of the KCNQ channel opener ezogabine on functional connectivity of the ventral striatum and clinical symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder

Aaron Tan, Sara Costi, Laurel S Morris, Nicholas T Van Dam, Marin Kautz, Alexis E Whitton, Allyson K Friedman, Katherine A Collins, Gabriella Ahle, Nisha Chadha, Brian Do, Diego A Pizzagalli, Dan Iosifescu, Eric J Nestler, Ming-Hu Han, James W Murrough

Journal article  |  2020  |  MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of disability worldwide, yet current treatment strategies remain limited in the..

Experienced Meditators Exhibit No Differences to Demographically Matched Controls in Theta Phase Synchronization, P200, or P300 During an Auditory Oddball Task

Jake Robert Payne, Oliver Baell, Harry Geddes, Bernadette Fitzgibbon, Melanie Emonson, Aron T Hill, Nicholas T Van Dam, Gregory Humble, Paul B Fitzgerald, Neil W Bailey

Journal article  |  2020  |  MINDFULNESS

Objectives: Long-term meditation practice affects the brain’s ability to sustain attention. However, how this occurs is not well u..