2024

Schuman-Olivier Z, Gawande R, Creedon TB, Comeau A, Griswold T, Smith LB, To MN, Wilson CL, Loucks EB, Cook BL. Change starts with the body: Interoceptive appreciation mediates the effect of mindfulness training on behavior change - an effect moderated by depression severity. Psychiatry Res. 2024 Oct 19;342:116230. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2024.116230. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39489994.

2023

Gawande R, Smith L, Comeau A, Creedon TB, Wilson CL, Griswold T, Cook BL, Loucks EB, Schuman-Olivier Z. Impact of warm mindfulness on emotion regulation: A randomized controlled effectiveness trial. Health Psychol. 2023 Oct;42(10):699-711. doi: 10.1037/hea0001303. Epub 2023 Jul 6. PMID: 37410421; PMCID: PMC10529078.

2022

Datko M, Lutz J, Gawande R, Comeau A, To MN, Desel T, Gan J, Desbordes G, Napadow V, Schuman-Olivier Z. Increased insula response to interoceptive attention following mindfulness training is associated with increased body trusting among patients with depression. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging. 2022 Dec;327:111559. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2022.111559. Epub 2022 Oct 22. PMID: 36308976. 

2020

Schuman-Olivier Z, Trombka M, Lovas DA, Brewer JA, Vago DR, Gawande R, Dunne JP, Lazar SW, Loucks EB, Fulwiler C. Mindfulness and Behavior Change. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2020 Nov/Dec;28(6):371-394. doi: 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000277. PMID: 33156156; PMCID: PMC7647439.

Berry MP, Lutz J, Schuman-Olivier Z, Germer C, Pollak S, Edwards RR, Gardiner P, Desbordes G, Napadow V. Brief Self-Compassion Training Alters Neural Responses to Evoked Pain for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Pilot Study. Pain Med. 2020 Oct 1;21(10):2172-2185. doi: 10.1093/pm/pnaa178. PMID: 32783054; PMCID: PMC7593799.

Lutz J, Berry MP, Napadow V, Germer C, Pollak S, Gardiner P, Edwards RR, Desbordes G, Schuman-Olivier Z. Neural activations during self-related processing in patients with chronic pain and effects of a brief self-compassion training – A pilot study. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging. 2020 Oct 30;304:111155. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2020.111155. Epub 2020 Jul 30. PMID: 32799058.

2019

Gawande R, Pine E, Griswold T, Creedon T, Vallejo Z, Rosenbaum E, Lozada A, Schuman-Olivier Z. Insurance-Reimbursable Mindfulness for Safety-Net Primary Care Patients: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Mindfulness (N Y). 2019 Sep;10(9):1744-1759. doi: 10.1007/s12671-019-01116-8. Epub 2019 Mar 18. PMID: 32042349; PMCID: PMC7009938.

2018

Gawande R, To MN, Pine E, Griswold T, Creedon TB, Brunel A, Lozada A, Loucks EB, Schuman-Olivier Z. Mindfulness Training Enhances Self-Regulation and Facilitates Health Behavior Change for Primary Care Patients: a Randomized Controlled Trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Feb;34(2):293-302. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4739-5. Epub 2018 Dec 3. PMID: 30511291; PMCID: PMC6374253.

Featured News: CMC was awarded a research grant titled “Neural and physiologic effects of self-compassion on chronic pain” from the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.  This grant provides seed funding for a pilot neuroimaging study examining self-compassion training for people experiencing chronic lower back pain.