scholarly journals Neural Changes following Behavioral Activation for a Depressed Breast Cancer Patient: A Functional MRI Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Gawrysiak ◽  
John P. Carvalho ◽  
Baxter P. Rogers ◽  
Christopher R. N. Nicholas ◽  
John H. Dougherty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Patient ◽  
Breast Cancer Patient ◽  
Behavioral Activation ◽  
Functional Neuroimaging ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Blood Oxygenation ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Reward Responsiveness

Functional neuroimaging is an innovative but at this stage underutilized method to assess the efficacy of psychotherapy for depression. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used in this case study to examine changes in brain activity in a depressed breast cancer patient receiving an 8-session Behavioral Activation Treatment for Depression (BATD), based on the work of Hopko and Lejuez (2007). A music listening paradigm was used during fMRI brain scans to assess reward responsiveness at pre- and posttreatment. Following treatment, the patient exhibited attenuated depression and changes in blood oxygenation level dependence (BOLD) response in regions of the prefrontal cortex and the subgenual cingulate cortex. These preliminary findings outline a novel means to assess psychotherapy efficacy and suggest that BATD elicits functional brain changes in areas implicated in the pathophysiology of depression. Further research is necessary to explore neurobiological mechanisms of change in BATD, particularly the potential mediating effects of reward responsiveness and associated brain functioning.

THE RELATION OF COPPING STRATEGY BY LOOKING SOCIAL SUPPORT WITH STRESS LEVEL OF BREAST CANCER PATIENT WHO GONE TROUGH CHEMOTHERAPY

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
Sri Burhani Putri
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Cancer Patient ◽  
Breast Cancer Patient ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
P Value ◽  
Spiritual Support ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Breast Cancer Chemotherapy ◽  
Patient Stress

Breast cancer is one of the most common illness that killed woman. One of the therapy to cure breast cancer is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy has side effect either physical and psychology, that caused people who’s in chemo therapy, prone to stress. Stress effected by many factors, such as characteristic and chopping strategy that patient has been using. The aim of this research is to get a perspective about the relation of characteristic and chopping strategy with breast cancer patient stress, whose in chemo therapy. This research using cross sectional study and taking sample by using accidental sampling method. The data analyzed by using bavariat and multivariat with variable result shows that breast cancer patient stress who has chemo therapy realted to age characteristic (p value = 0.00) the time since they diagnosed with cancer (pvalue = 0.03), how long they have chemo therapy (pvalue = 0.00) and chopping strategyby looking social support (pvalue = 0.00) looking for spiritual (pvalue = 0.00) with dominan variable which related to stress is chopping strategy to looking spiritual support (coeffecients B = -1.139).   Key words : Breast cancer, chemotherapy, stress  

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