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L'ANSIA DEL FUTURO

1. Uncertainty and Anticipation in Anxiety: An integrated neurobiological and psychological perspective - PMC - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Uncertainty and Anticipation in Anxiety: An integrated neurobiological and psychological perspective - PMC

2. Future-Oriented Thought Patterns Associated With Anxiety and Depression in Later Life: The Intriguing Prospects of Prospection | The Gerontologist | Oxford Academic, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Future-Oriented Thought Patterns Associated With Anxiety and Depression in Later Life: The Intriguing Prospects of Prospection | The Gerontologist | Oxford Academic

3. Future anxiety, depression and stress among undergraduate students: psychological flexibility and emotion regulation as mediators - Frontiers, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Future anxiety, depression and stress among undergraduate students: psychological flexibility and emotion regulation as mediators

4. The Indirect Effect of Future Anxiety on the Relationship between Self-Efficacy and Depression in a Convenience Sample of Adults: Revisiting Social Cognitive Theory - MDPI, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, The Indirect Effect of Future Anxiety on the Relationship between Self-Efficacy and Depression in a Convenience Sample of Adults: Revisiting Social Cognitive Theory

5. Anxiety - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Anxiety - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

6. Stress and long-term memory retrieval: a systematic review - PMC, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Stress and long-term memory retrieval: a systematic review - PMC

7. The neurobiological bases of memory formation: from physiological conditions to psychopathology - PMC, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, The neurobiological bases of memory formation: from physiological conditions to psychopathology - PMC

8. How Stress Affects the Brain | American Brain Foundation, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, How Stress Affects the Brain

9. www.psychiatry.wisc.edu, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, https://www.psychiatry.wisc.edu/courses/Nitschke/seminar/Grupe%20&%20Nitschke%202013%20NRN.pdf

10. Neural basis for anxiety and anxiety-related physiological responses during a driving situation: an fMRI study - Oxford Academic, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Neural basis for anxiety and anxiety-related physiological responses during a driving situation: an fMRI study | Cerebral Cortex Communications | Oxford Academic

11. The Structure of Mindful Brain - PMC, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, The Structure of Mindful Brain - PMC

12. New evidence that chronic stress predisposes brain to mental illness ..., accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, New evidence that chronic stress predisposes brain to mental illness | Research UC Berkeley

13. Stress, adversity take a toll on the brain - Yale School of Medicine, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, https://medicine.yale.edu/news/medicineatyale/article/stress-adversity-take-a-toll-on-the-brain/

14. An evolutionary perspective on the co-occurrence of social anxiety disorder and alcohol use disorder - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, An evolutionary perspective on the co-occurrence of social anxiety disorder and alcohol use disorder - PMC

15. Anxiety Disorders in Evolutionary Perspective, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Anxiety Disorders in Evolutionary Perspective

16. Anxiety: An Evolutionary Approach - Sage Journals, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Anxiety: An Evolutionary Approach

17. The Evolution of Anxiety: Why We Worry and What to Do About It - James Clear, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, The Evolution of Anxiety: Why We Worry and What to Do About It

18. Disorganized Attachment Style and How it Affects Relationships - NOCD, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Disorganized Attachment Style and How it Affects Relationships

19. Relationship anxiety: Signs, causes, and management - MedicalNewsToday, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Relationship anxiety: Signs, causes, and management

20. Helping Health Anxiety, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Helping Health Anxiety

21. Anxiety and panic attacks - Mind, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Anxiety and panic attacks - Mind

22. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: When Unwanted Thoughts or Repetitive Behaviors Take Over - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: When Unwanted Thoughts or Repetitive Behaviors Take Over - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

23. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) - Diagnosis and treatment - Mayo Clinic

24. Self-care for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) - Mind, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Self-care for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) | Mind

25. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Transdiagnostic Behavioral Intervention for Mental Health and Medical Conditions - PMC - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Transdiagnostic Behavioral Intervention for Mental Health and Medical Conditions

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IL RICHIAMO DEL PASSATO

1. Metacognitive Therapy for Comorbid Anxiety Disorders: A Case Study - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Metacognitive Therapy for Comorbid Anxiety Disorders: A Case Study - PMC

2. Cognitive neuroscience perspective on memory: overview and summary - PMC, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 21, 2025, Cognitive neuroscience perspective on memory: overview and summary - PMC

3. Learning, Recalling, and Thinking - Discovering the Brain - NCBI Bookshelf, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 21, 2025, Learning, Recalling, and Thinking - Discovering the Brain - NCBI Bookshelf

4. Memory Recall and Retrieval System | Types, Processes, Improvement & Problems, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Memory Recall and Retrieval System | Types, Processes, Improvement & Problems

5. The science behind memory - Boston College, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 21, 2025, The science behind memory

6. Ch 3: Memory – Psychological Science: Understanding Human Behavior, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Ch 3: Memory – Psychological Science: Understanding Human Behavior

7. Frequency Effects on Memory: A Resource-Limited Theory - Carnegie Mellon University, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Frequency Effects on Memory: A Resource-Limited Theory

8. When emotional memories intrude, focusing on context could help ..., accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, When emotional memories intrude, focusing on context could help, study finds

9. Emotional Distraction in the Context of Memory-Based Orienting of Attention - PMC, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 21, 2025, Emotional Distraction in the Context of Memory-Based Orienting of Attention - PMC

10. Attempts to Forget the Past Make It Harder to Remember the Present - TheScienceBreaker, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 21, 2025, Attempts to Forget the Past Make It Harder to Remember the Present - TheScienceBreaker

11. Memory Replay Prioritizes High-Reward Memories | UC Davis, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 21, 2025, Memory Replay Prioritizes High-Reward Memories | UC Davis

12. When Storing Memories, Brain Prioritizes Those Experiences That Are Most Rewarding, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 21, 2025, When Storing Memories, Brain Prioritizes Those Experiences That Are Most Rewarding | Columbia News

13. Brain Prioritizes Most Rewarding Experiences When Storing Memories - Neuroscience News, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 21, 2025, Brain Prioritizes Most Rewarding Experiences When Storing Memories - Neuroscience News

14. Brain Prioritizes High-Reward Memories - Psychology - UC Davis, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 21, 2025, Brain Prioritizes High-Reward Memories | Psychology

15. Resting-state BOLD temporal variability of the default mode network predicts spontaneous mind wandering, which is negatively associated with mindfulness skills - Frontiers, accesso eseguito il giorno marzo 19, 2025, Resting-state BOLD temporal variability of the default mode network predicts spontaneous mind  

16. Vagus Nerve as Modulator of the Brain–Gut Axis in Psychiatric and Inflammatory Disorders, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Vagus Nerve as Modulator of the Brain–Gut Axis in Psychiatric and Inflammatory Disorders - PMC

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CAPITOLO SULLA RESPIRAZIONE CONSAPEVOLE

1. How Breath-Control Can Change Your Life: A Systematic Review on Psycho-Physiological Correlates of Slow Breathing - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, How Breath-Control Can Change Your Life: A Systematic Review on Psycho-Physiological Correlates of Slow Breathing - PMC

2. Slow your breath, improve your health! - Mindfulness for Better Living, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Slow your breath, improve your health! - Mindfulness for Better Living

3. How Breath-Control Can Change Your Life: A Systematic Review on Psycho-Physiological Correlates of Slow Breathing - Frontiers, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, How Breath-Control Can Change Your Life: A Systematic Review on Psycho-Physiological Correlates of Slow Breathing

4. Vagus Nerve Stimulation - PMC - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Vagus Nerve Stimulation - PMC

5. www.news-medical.net, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Review and meta-analysis suggests breathwork may be effective for improving stress and mental health

6. Review and meta-analysis suggests breathwork may be effective for improving stress and mental health - News-Medical, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Review and meta-analysis suggests breathwork may be effective for improving stress and mental health

7. Conscious Breathing: Discover the Power of Your Breath - Amazon.com, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Conscious Breathing: Discover the Power of Your Breath

8. Voluntary activation of the sympathetic nervous system and attenuation of the innate immune response in humans - PMC - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Voluntary activation of the sympathetic nervous system and attenuation of the innate immune response in humans - PMC

9. Conscious connected breathing with breath retention intervention in adults with chronic low back pain: protocol for a randomized controlled pilot study - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Conscious connected breathing with breath retention intervention in adults with chronic low back pain: protocol for a randomized controlled pilot study

10. Assessment for Efficacy of Additional Breathing Exercises Over Improvement in Health Impairment Due to Asthma Assessed using St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Assessment for Efficacy of Additional Breathing Exercises Over Improvement in Health Impairment Due to Asthma Assessed using St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire

11. Psychosocial Factors and Behavioral Medicine Interventions in Asthma - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Psychosocial Factors and Behavioral Medicine Interventions in Asthma - PMC

12. Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal - PMC - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal - PMC

13. How The 4-7-8 Breathing Technique Can Help Relieve Stress and Anxiety - Verywell Mind, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, How The 4-7-8 Breathing Technique Can Help Relieve Stress and Anxiety

 

CAPITOLO SULLA MEDITAZIONE

1. Mindful Meditation: Harnessing the Power of Breath - Motion Specific Release, 

2. Neurological Evidence of Diverse Self-Help Breathing Training With Virtual Reality and Biofeedback Assistance: Extensive Exploration Study of Electroencephalography Markers - JMIR Formative Research, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Neurological Evidence of Diverse Self-Help Breathing Training With Virtual Reality and Biofeedback Assistance: Extensive Exploration Study of Electroencephalography Markers

3. Neural underpinning of a respiration-associated resting-state fMRI network - PMC, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Neural underpinning of a respiration-associated resting-state fMRI network - PMC

4. Mindfulness-based Neurofeedback: A Systematic Review of EEG and fMRI studies | bioRxiv, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Mindfulness-based Neurofeedback: A Systematic Review of EEG and fMRI studies | bioRxi

5. Holotropic Breathwork and Psychedelic Therapy - Integrative Psychiatry Institute, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Holotropic Breathwork and Psychedelic Therapy - Integrative Psychiatry Institute

6. A systematic review of brief respiratory, embodiment, cognitive, and mindfulness interventions to reduce state anxiety - Frontiers, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, A systematic review of brief respiratory, embodiment, cognitive, and mindfulness interventions to reduce state anxiety

7. Keeping the Breath in Mind: Respiration, Neural Oscillations, and the Free Energy Principle, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Keeping the Breath in Mind: Respiration, Neural Oscillations, and the Free Energy Principle

8. Mindfulness per sanitari: benefici e applicazioni sul lavoro - Consulcesi, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Mindfulness per sanitari: benefici e applicazioni sul lavoro

9. Effect of breathwork on stress and mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised-controlled trials - PubMed, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Effect of breathwork on stress and mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised-controlled trials - PubMed

10. Breathing Practices for Stress and Anxiety Reduction: Conceptual Framework of Implementation Guidelines Based on a Systematic Review of the Published Literature - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Breathing Practices for Stress and Anxiety Reduction: Conceptual Framework of Implementation Guidelines Based on a Systematic Review of the Published Literature

11. Mindfulness: dalle origini alle applicazioni cliniche - Psicologia - State of Mind, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Mindfulness: dalle origini alle applicazioni cliniche - Psicologia

12. Cyclic sighing' can help breathe away anxiety - Stanford' SCOPE, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, 'Cyclic sighing' can help breathe away anxiety - Scope

13. Measure of Significance of Holotropic Breathwork in the Development of Self-Awareness, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Measure of Significance of Holotropic Breathwork in the Development of Self-Awareness - PMC

14. Effect of Buteyko Breathing Technique as an Adjunct to Routine Physiotherapy on Pulmonary Functions in Patients Undergoing Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Effect of Buteyko Breathing Technique as an Adjunct to Routine Physiotherapy on Pulmonary Functions in Patients Undergoing Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial

15. How the 4-7-8 Breathing Technique Can Help Reduce Stress | National Eczema Association, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, How the 4-7-8 Breathing Technique Can Help Reduce Stress | National Eczema Association

16. Just Breathe: Using Breathwork for Wellbeing - Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Just Breathe: Using Breathwork for Wellbeing

17. The Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing on Attention, Negative Affect and Stress in Healthy Adults - PMC, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, The Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing on Attention, Negative Affect and Stress in Healthy Adults - PMC

18. Functions in Healthy Young Adults - PMC - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Effects of Alternate Nostril Breathing Exercise on Cardiorespiratory Functions in Healthy Young Adults - PMC

19. Wim Hof Breathing Technique - WebMD, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 10, 2025, Wim Hof Breathing Technique

20. Lifestyle Mindfulness In Clinical Practice - PubMed, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 7, 2025, Lifestyle Mindfulness In Clinical Practice - PubMed

21. Increasing Awareness and Acceptance Through Mindfulness and Somatic Education Movements - PubMed, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 7, 2025, Increasing Awareness and Acceptance Through Mindfulness and Somatic Education Movements - PubMed

22. Effects of Mindfulness on Psychological Health: A Review of Empirical Studies - PMC, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 7, 2025, Effects of Mindfulness on Psychological Health: A Review of Empirical Studies - PMC

23. (PDF) Mindfulness Training Affects Attention-Or Is It Attentional Effort? - ResearchGate, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 7, 2025, (PDF) Mindfulness Training Affects Attention-Or Is It Attentional Effort?

24. Mindfulness meditation: A research-proven way to reduce stress, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 7, 2025, Mindfulness meditation: A research-proven way to reduce stress

25. Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction < Yale Stress Center, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 7, 2025, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction

26. Assessing the Impact of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on Emergency Nurses' Absenteeism and Receptive Awareness o - Scholar Commons, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 7, 2025, Assessing the Impact of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on Emergency Nurses' Absenteeism and Receptive Awareness o

27. Impact of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on attention, rumination and resting blood pressure in women with cancer: A waitlist-controlled study - ResearchGate, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 7, 2025, Impact of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on attention, rumination and resting blood pressure in women with cancer: A waitlist-controlled study

28. Exploring the sustained impact of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program: a thematic analysis - PubMed Central, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 7, 2025, Exploring the sustained impact of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program: a thematic analysis - PMC

29. Lifestyle Mindfulness In Clinical Practice - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 7, 2025, Lifestyle Mindfulness In Clinical Practice - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

30. Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Anxiety and Depression - PMC, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 7, 2025, Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Anxiety and Depression - PMC

31. (PDF) Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Techniques in Educational Settings: A New Approach to Enhance Mental Health and Learning - ResearchGate, accesso eseguito il giorno aprile 7, 2025, (PDF) Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Techniques in Educational Settings: A New Approach to Enhance Mental Health and Learning

 

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