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The Effect of Short-Term Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy in Patients with Binge Eating Disorder
Sheida Azari, Ladan Fata, Hamid Poursharifi,
Volume 1, Issue 2 (Spring 2013 -- 2013)
Abstract

Objective: This research investigates and compares the effects of short-Term Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) over psychological problems of the patients with Binge Eating Disorder (BED).

Methods: Among patients of Sina hospital and other weight loss centers of Tehran, 44 people were selected and allocated randomly in CBT (14), MBCT (14) and control group (14). For each intervention, eight group sessions were held each lasted 90 minutes, with a separate psychologist. Measurement was performed in two phases: pre test and post test. Depended variables were measured with Beck Depression Inventory, Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, Binge Eating Scale, and Perceived Stress Scale.

Results: There was no significant difference between CBT and MBCT in BED (F=36.03, P<0.315) depression (F=35.28, P<0.143), and self-esteem (F=6.9, P<1.00).

Conclusion: Based on the findings of this research, it seems that for patients who suffer from BED, CBT & MBCT are the same choose for improve depression, self-esteem and being eating.


The Efficacy of Psychoneurotherapy on Reducing Symptoms Severity in Treatment Naïve Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Washing
Ali Akbar Saremi, Mohammad Ali Nazari, Seyed Vahid Shariat, Behrooz Dolatshahi,
Volume 4, Issue 4 (Autumn 2016-- 2016)
Abstract

Objective: The present study was carried out to examine the efficacy of psychoneurotherapy (PNT) on reducing symptoms severity in treatment-naïve patients with obsessive-compulsive washing. This study evaluated a new form of psychotherapy based on neurobiological model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). 
Methods: The study was conducted as a quasi-experimental research. The statistical population of this study included 130 obsessive-compulsive washers. A total of 40 patients were selected using inconvenience sampling method and then were randomly divided into two groups: PNT group (n=20) and sham feedback control group (n=20). Both groups received drug treatment, in addition, the experimental group received 20 sessions (twice per week) of PNT. The Yale-Brown obsessive compulsive scale (Y-BOCS), Maudsley obsessional-compulsive inventory (MOCI), depression, anxiety, and stress scale-21 (DASS-21), subjective united distress scale (SUDS) were administered before and after treatment. Eelectroencephography (EEG) was recorded in eyes open provocation stimuli condition. All EEGs were recorded drug free. Participants were prescribed PNT protocol based on the results of their quantitative EEG (QEEG) and low-resolution electromagnetic tomography analyses. The effects of PNT were analyzed using 1-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) after controlling pretest scores. The effect size (Cohen’s d), paired t test, and clinically significant change were calculated and assessed for all the clinical instruments. 
Results: Thirty patients completed this study. Despite some methodological limitations, our results indicated that psychoneurotherapy is significantly efficient on treatment’s target. ANCOVA results supported that PNT could significantly improve the severity of OCD symptoms, depression, stress, anxiety symptoms, and subjective united distress scale compared to what was seen sham feedback control group (All P<0.001). 
Conclusion: Psychoneurotherapy showed preliminarily evidence for the efficacy in the treatment of patients with obsessive-compulsive washing. The study is an attempt to provide a new non-invasive treatment of OCD washing. Future studies are needed to confirm our findings.


Using Signal Detection Theory to Investigate the Impact of Mood Induction on Emotional Information Processing in High BAS/BIS Individuals
Mohammad Ali Nazari, Marzieh Alivandivafa, Sayra Lotfi, Mohammad Rostami, Sanaz Soltani,
Volume 6, Issue 3 (Summer 2018)
Abstract
Objective: The main objective of this study was to investigate the explicit memory bias in the people with high BAS/BIS sensitivity in the different manipulated mood states. 
Methods: By using purposive sampling method, seventy-four participants (undergraduate students) were selected based on z-scores of 480 using the Carver and White’s BAS/BIS scale. They were distributed as: 24 with high BAS sensitivity, 25 with high BIS sensitivity and 25 as the control group. Data were gathered in the framework of quasi-experimental design. All the subjects were presented with emotional words for memorization. Then, the participants in each group were randomly assigned to either a sad or a happy mood induction prior to performing a recognition memory task. Reaction Time (RT), response bias (ß) and sensitivity (d’) for the emotional word recognition was calculated using the signal detection theory. 
Results: Reaction time for recognizing the negative words in the sad mood condition was shorter in the high BIS sensitivity group, relative to the high BAS sensitivity group and controls. No significant differences were observed for sensitivity (d’), neither between groups nor within the control. However, lower ß for negative words was observed in the high BIS sensitivity group only. 
Conclusion: Results indicated that individuals with high BIS sensitivity use more liberal strategy for the negative word recognition. 

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