Stuart J. Eisendrath

TL;DR: The results suggest aberrant functional connectivity among the brain networks responsible for salience attribution, executive control, and the resting-state in the MDD group compared with the control participants and raise the possibility that therapeutic interventions that can restore thefunctional connectivity among these networks to that typical of healthy adolescents might be a fruitful avenue for future research.

TL;DR: The data suggest that individuals in psychiatric treatment for depression can be aided in quitting smoking through use of staged care interventions and that smoking cessation interventions used in the general population can be implemented in psychiatric outpatient settings.

TL;DR: Research findings from several randomized controlled trials suggest that MBCT is a useful intervention for relapse prevention in patients with recurrent depression, with efficacy that may be similar to maintenance antidepressants.

TL;DR: A pilot study of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for TRD, a recently developed group treatment that emphasizes mindfulness meditation training – not cognitive therapy – as the primary therapeutic technique, found no evidence that more severely depressed patients had difficulty learning MBCT.

TL;DR: MBCT significantly decreased depression severity and improved treatment response rates at 8 weeks but not remission rates, and appears to be a viable adjunct in the management of TRD.