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Norman A. S. Farb

Norman A. S. Farb

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Psychology

D-Index
37
Citations
9211
World Ranking
9050
National Ranking
610

Overview

Norman A. S. Farb is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a primary focus on clinical and experimental cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience. Their research spans several interdisciplinary areas including psychiatry and mental health, and social psychology.

The main thematic areas addressed in their work include:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Norman A. S. Farb's publication record includes contributions to the following frequent venues:

  • Mindfulness
  • Psychological Inquiry
  • Mental health and physical activity
  • Anxiety Stress & Coping
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Some of their recent papers are:

  • What do people mean when they talk about mindfulness? (2021) - Clinical Psychology Review
  • Psychedelic Research and the Need for Transparency: Polishing Alice's Looking Glass (2020) - Frontiers in Psychology
  • Frontoparietal and Default Mode Network Contributions to Self-Referential Processing in Social Anxiety Disorder (2021) - Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
  • The impact of a brief mindfulness training on interoception: A randomized controlled trial (2022) - PLoS ONE
  • Modeling the mindfulness-to-meaning theory's mindful reappraisal hypothesis: Replication with longitudinal data from a randomized controlled study (2021) - Stress and Health

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Cynthia Price
  • Zindel V. Segal
  • Zoey Zuo
  • Eric L. Garland
  • Yiyi Wang

Their research integrates clinical psychology and neuroscience perspectives, with an emphasis on mindfulness-based interventions, cognitive and affective neuroscience, and the neural correlates of psychological disorders such as anxiety and social anxiety disorder. This multidisciplinary approach informs both theoretical models and practical treatment methodologies.

Best Publications

  • Attending to the present: mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference

    Norman A. S. Farb;Zindel V. Segal;Helen Mayberg;Jim Bean

  • Minding One’s Emotions: Mindfulness Training Alters the Neural Expression of Sadness

    Norman A. S. Farb;Adam K. Anderson;Helen Mayberg;Jim Bean

  • 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

  • Interoception, contemplative practice, and health.

    Norman Farb;Jennifer Daubenmier;Cynthia J. Price;Tim Gard

  • Mindfulness meditation training alters cortical representations of interoceptive attention

    Norman A. S. Farb;Zindel V. Segal;Adam K. Anderson

  • The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders

    Norman A S Farb;Adam K Anderson;Zindel V Segal

  • Attentional Modulation of Primary Interoceptive and Exteroceptive Cortices

    Norman A. S. Farb;Zindel V. Segal;Zindel V. Segal;Adam K. Anderson

  • 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 Practice, Rumination and Clinical Outcome in Mindfulness-Based Treatment

    Lance L. Hawley;Lance L. Hawley;Danielle Schwartz;Peter J. Bieling;Julie Irving

  • State Mindfulness During Meditation Predicts Enhanced Cognitive Reappraisal

    Eric L Garland;Adam Hanley;Norman A Farb;Brett E Froeliger

  • Abnormal network connectivity in frontotemporal dementia: Evidence for prefrontal isolation

    Norman A.S. Farb;Cheryl L. Grady;Stephen Strother;David F. Tang-Wai;David F. Tang-Wai

  • Microdosing psychedelics: personality, mental health, and creativity differences in microdosers

    Thomas Anderson;Rotem Petranker;Daniel Rosenbaum;Cory R Weissman;Cory R Weissman

  • Memory for general and specific value information in younger and older adults: Measuring the limits of strategic control

    Alan D. Castel;Norman A. S. Farb;Fergus I. M. Craik

  • Mood-linked responses in medial prefrontal cortex predict relapse in patients with recurrent unipolar depression.

    Norman A.S. Farb;Adam K. Anderson;Richard T. Bloch;Zindel V. Segal;Zindel V. Segal

  • Mindfulness and emotion regulation: Outcomes and possible mediating mechanisms.

    Kathleen M. Corcoran;Norman Farb;Adam Anderson;Zindel V. Segal

  • Attentional and affective consequences of technology supported mindfulness training: a randomised, active control, efficacy trial

    Sheffy Bhayee;Patricia Tomaszewski;Daniel H. Lee;Graeme Moffat

  • Prevention of relapse/recurrence in major depressive disorder with either mindfulness-based cognitive therapy or cognitive therapy.

    Norman Farb;Adam Anderson;Arun Ravindran;Lance Hawley

  • Intrinsic medial temporal lobe connectivity relates to individual differences in episodic autobiographical remembering.

    Signy Sheldon;Norman Farb;Daniela J. Palombo;Brian Levine

  • Effects of a Mindfulness Meditation App on Subjective Well-Being: Active Randomized Controlled Trial and Experience Sampling Study

    Kathleen Marie Walsh;Bechara J Saab;Norman As Farb

  • A two-factor model of relapse/recurrence vulnerability in unipolar depression.

    Norman A. S. Farb;Julie A. Irving;Adam K. Anderson;Zindel V. Segal

  • 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

Zindel V. Segal
Zindel V. Segal University of Toronto
Adam K. Anderson
Adam K. Anderson Cornell University
Eric L. Garland
Eric L. Garland University of Utah
Philippe R. Goldin
Philippe R. Goldin University of California, Davis
Arun V. Ravindran
Arun V. Ravindran University of Toronto
Sandra E. Black
Sandra E. Black University of Toronto
Helen S. Mayberg
Helen S. Mayberg Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Morris Freedman
Morris Freedman University of Toronto
Barbara L. Fredrickson
Barbara L. Fredrickson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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