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Eric L. Garland is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research spans a range of topics primarily within the fields of psychology and medicine, with a focus on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, pharmacology, cognitive neuroscience, and public health. The scholar has made significant contributions related to mindfulness and compassion interventions, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, opioid use disorder treatment, pain management and placebo effect, COVID-19 and mental health, and heart rate variability and autonomic control.

Their recent publications include the following works:

  • Integrative Medicine for Pain Management in Oncology: Society for Integrative Oncology-ASCO Guideline (2022), Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement vs Supportive Group Therapy for Co-occurring Opioid Misuse and Chronic Pain in Primary Care (2022), JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Assessment of Anhedonia in Adults With and Without Mental Illness (2020), JAMA Network Open
  • Neurophysiological Mechanisms Supporting Mindfulness Meditation-Based Pain Relief: an Updated Review (2020), Current Pain and Headache Reports
  • Mindful positive emotion regulation as a treatment for addiction: from hedonic pleasure to self-transcendent meaning (2021), Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Eric L. Garland has frequently collaborated with several co-authors including:

  • Adam W. Hanley
  • Brett Froeliger
  • Yoshio Nakamura
  • Matthew O. Howard
  • Justin Hudak

The primary publication venues for their work include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Mindfulness
  • Journal of Pain
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Eric L. Garland has contributed predominantly to the study of mindfulness and compassion interventions, with many publications dedicated to understanding anxiety, depression, cognitive processes, and treatment approaches within both psychological and medical frameworks.

Best Publications

  • Upward Spirals of Positive Emotions Counter Downward Spirals of Negativity: Insights from the Broaden-and-Build Theory and Affective Neuroscience on The Treatment of Emotion Dysfunctions and Deficits in Psychopathology

    Eric L. Garland;Barbara Fredrickson;Ann M. Kring;David P. Johnson

  • From a state to a trait: Trajectories of state mindfulness in meditation during intervention predict changes in trait mindfulness☆☆☆

    Laura G. Kiken;Eric L. Garland;Karen Bluth;Olafur S. Palsson

  • Positive Reappraisal Mediates the Stress-Reductive Effects of Mindfulness: An Upward Spiral Process

    Eric L. Garland;Susan A. Gaylord;Barbara L. Fredrickson

  • Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation

    Eric L. Garland;Norman A. Farb;Philippe R. Goldin;Barbara L. Fredrickson

  • The role of mindfulness in positive reappraisal.

    Eric Garland;Susan Gaylord;Jongbae Park

  • Pain Processing in the Human Nervous System: A Selective Review of Nociceptive and Biobehavioral Pathways

    Eric L. Garland

  • Mindfulness training modifies cognitive, affective, and physiological mechanisms implicated in alcohol dependence: results of a randomized controlled pilot trial.

    Eric L. Garland;Susan A. Gaylord;Charlotte A. Boettiger;Matthew O. Howard

  • Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement for Chronic Pain and Prescription Opioid Misuse: Results from an Early Stage Randomized Controlled Trial

    Eric L. Garland;Eron G. Manusov;Brett Froeliger;Amber Kelly

  • Mindfulness Training Reduces the Severity of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Women: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

    Susan A Gaylord;Olafur S Palsson;Eric L Garland;Keturah R Faurot

  • Mindfulness treatment for substance misuse: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Wen Li;Matthew O. Howard;Eric L. Garland;Patricia McGovern

  • Family factors in Internet addiction among Chinese youth: A review of English- and Chinese-language studies

    Wen Li;Eric L. Garland;Matthew O. Howard

  • The role of positive affect in pain and its treatment.

    Patrick H. Finan;Eric L. Garland

  • The downward spiral of chronic pain, prescription opioid misuse, and addiction: cognitive, affective, and neuropsychopharmacologic pathways.

    Eric L. Garland;Brett Froeliger;Fadel Zeidan;Kaitlyn Partin

  • Mindfulness Training Targets Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Addiction at the Attention-Appraisal-Emotion Interface

    Eric L. Garland;Brett Froeliger;Matthew O. Howard

  • Therapeutic mechanisms of a mindfulness-based treatment for IBS: effects on visceral sensitivity, catastrophizing, and affective processing of pain sensations

    Eric L. Garland;Susan A. Gaylord;Olafur Palsson;Keturah Faurot

  • Mindfulness-based treatment of addiction: current state of the field and envisioning the next wave of research.

    Eric L. Garland;Matthew O. Howard

  • The Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory: Extensions, Applications, and Challenges at the Attention–Appraisal–Emotion Interface

    Eric L. Garland;Norman A. Farb;Philippe R. Goldin;Barbara L. Fredrickson

  • Mindfulness training promotes upward spirals of positive affect and cognition: multilevel and autoregressive latent trajectory modeling analyses

    Eric L. Garland;Nicole Geschwind;Frenk Peeters;Marieke Wichers

  • Cue-elicited heart rate variability and attentional bias predict alcohol relapse following treatment

    Eric L. Garland;Ingmar H. A. Franken;Matthew O. Howard

  • Effects of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement on reward responsiveness and opioid cue-reactivity

    Eric L. Garland;Brett Froeliger;Matthew O. Howard

  • Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory - Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation

    Eric Garland;Norman Farb;Philippe R. Goldin;Barbara Fredrickson

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew O. Howard
Matthew O. Howard University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adam W. Hanley
Adam W. Hanley Florida State University
Craig J. Bryan
Craig J. Bryan The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
F. Joseph McClernon
F. Joseph McClernon Duke University
Norman A. S. Farb
Norman A. S. Farb University of Toronto
Barbara L. Fredrickson
Barbara L. Fredrickson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brian E. Perron
Brian E. Perron University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Philippe R. Goldin
Philippe R. Goldin University of California, Davis
Jeffrey M. Greeson
Jeffrey M. Greeson Rowan University
Amit Bernstein
Amit Bernstein University of Wisconsin–Madison

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