Bruce W. Smith

TL;DR: The brief resilience scale (BRS) is a reliable means of assessing resilience as the ability to bounce back or recover from stress and may provide unique and important information about people coping with health-related stressors.

TL;DR: This paper identified positive and negative patterns of religious coping methods, developed a brief measure of these religious coping patterns, and examined their implications for health and adjustment, using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses.

TL;DR: Connectivity analysis revealed positive connectivity between lateral superior frontal cortex and regions of middle frontal cortex previously implicated in emotional suppression and negative connectivity with bilateral amygdala and bilateral amygdala.

TL;DR: Preliminary evidence that a eating focused mindfulness-based intervention can result in significant changes in weight, eating behavior, and psychological distress in obese individuals is provided.

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging results suggest that neural circuitry dysfunctions differ in generalized social phobia and generalized anxiety disorder.