In this final episode Professor Mark Williams and Danny Penman discuss how imaging studies show that Mindfulness may have numerous profoundly positive effects on the brain.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy on trial

Nov 28th, 2011 24m 29s

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is especially good for people who have suffered the most debilitating forms of depression. The evidence for its effectiveness is overwhelming and continues to grow.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A new approach to treating depression

Nov 14th, 2011 37m 11s

Mindfulness therapy is an extremely effective treatment preventing relapse in depression. But what does it entail and how does it work?

Can treatments such as Cognitive Therapy help?

Nov 7th, 2011 32m 52s

Depression tends to return even if it has been successfully treated. Scientists now understand why this happens and have developed therapies that reduce the risks of relapse and help lift the burden of depression should it return.

How is depression treated?

Oct 21st, 2011 28m 13s

Doctors and psychiatrists once believed that patterns of thinking played little or no role in depression, but this is now known to be wrong. Professor Williams and Dr Danny Penman discuss how the treatment of depression has evolved in recent ye

What is depression?

Oct 21st, 2011 31m 36s

Depression is expected to impose the second biggest health burden globally by 2020; greater even than heart disease, arthritis and many forms of cancer. Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman discuss the driving forces behind this startlin

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