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·September 20, 2023·8 min read

Is Suppressing Negative Thoughts A Path to Improved Mental Health?

A new study challenges the traditional belief surrounding the suppression of negative thoughts and mental well-being. Researchers trained participants to suppress fears and worries, observing that these thoughts became less vivid and participants' mental health improved.

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·June 29, 2023·4 min read

Decoding Repetitive Negative Thoughts: Machine Learning Predicts Rumination

A team of researchers have developed a predictive model to recognize patterns of persistent negative thinking, or rumination, using machine learning. Researchers hypothesized that the variance of dynamic connectivity between certain brain regions, such as the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), could be associated with rumination.

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·March 17, 2023·4 min read

Repetitive Negative Thinking During Low Mood Linked to Suicidal Thoughts

Cognitive rumination, or repetitive negative thinking, while in a "low mood" was associated with increased suicidal thoughts in young adults with major depression.

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·July 14, 2022·3 min read

How People Control Unwanted Thoughts

Proactively avoiding an association that triggers an unwanted thought or memory is more effective than reactive control is more effective when trying to prevent repetitive looping of unwanted thoughts.

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·May 20, 2022·4 min read

Ruminating on Our Ruminations Causes More Depression

Negative metacognitions and rumination can exacerbate symptoms of depression, researchers say.

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·October 1, 2021·6 min read

What Our Wandering Thoughts Can Teach Us About Mental Health

Ten minutes of idle thought can tell us a lot about the potential risk of depression, researchers say. Those who tend to ruminate and were more past or negatively focused in their idle thoughts had an increased risk of depression.

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·December 18, 2020·5 min read

How Can You Declutter Your Mind?

If you want to conjure a new thought in your mind, you have to force yourself to stop ruminating on old thoughts. The insight could help with the treatment of PTSD and other disorders associated with rumination.

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·August 29, 2020·3 min read

Researchers Uncover Network Mechanism Underlying Rumination

Researchers have uncovered the neural mechanism underlying rumination. The study reports when rumination occurs, coupling between the core and medial temporal lobe subsystems of the default mode network becomes elevated, while coupling between the core and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex decreases.

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·June 8, 2020·5 min read

Repetitive negative thinking linked to dementia risk

Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) in those aged over 55 is associated with an increased risk of cognitive decline and deposition of proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease. People who exhibited higher levels of RNT experienced more cognitive and memory problems over four years. They were more likely to have both amyloid-beta and tau protein deposits throughout the brain.