Nicholas Van Dam

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

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

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  |  Psychological Medicine

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

Effects of chronic physical disease and systemic inflammation on suicide risk in patients with depression: a hospital-based case-control study

Kyu Young Oh, Nicholas T Van Dam, John T Doucette, James W Murrough

Journal article  |  2020  |  Psychological Medicine

BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the concurrent effects of physical disease and systemic inflammation on suicide risk in pati..