Norman Farb

Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga

Research Expertise

Mindfulness- Emotion - Affect - Attention - Neuroscience - Interoception

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Attending to the present: mindfulness meditation reveals distinct neural modes of self-reference
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
2007
Minding one’s emotions: Mindfulness training alters the neural expression of sadness.
Emotion
2010
Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation
Psychological Inquiry
2015
Interoception, contemplative practice, and health
Frontiers in Psychology
2015
Mindfulness meditation training alters cortical representations of interoceptive attention
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
2012
The Mindful Brain and Emotion Regulation in Mood Disorders
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
2012
The Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory: Extensions, Applications, and Challenges at the Attention–Appraisal–Emotion Interface
Psychological Inquiry
2015
"Minding one's emotions: Mindfulness training alters the neural expression of sadness": Correction to Farb et al (2010).
Emotion
2010
Mindfulness Practice, Rumination and Clinical Outcome in Mindfulness-Based Treatment
Cognitive Therapy and Research
2013
Microdosing psychedelics: personality, mental health, and creativity differences in microdosers
Psychopharmacology
2019
State Mindfulness During Meditation Predicts Enhanced Cognitive Reappraisal
Mindfulness
2013
Abnormal network connectivity in frontotemporal dementia: Evidence for prefrontal isolation
Cortex
2013
Memory for general and specific value information in younger and older adults: Measuring the limits of strategic control
Memory & Cognition
2007
Mood-Linked Responses in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Predict Relapse in Patients with Recurrent Unipolar Depression
Biological Psychiatry
2011
Prevention of relapse/recurrence in major depressive disorder with either mindfulness-based cognitive therapy or cognitive therapy.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
2018
Attentional and affective consequences of technology supported mindfulness training: a randomised, active control, efficacy trial
BMC Psychology
2016
Intrinsic medial temporal lobe connectivity relates to individual differences in episodic autobiographical remembering
Cortex
2016
Mechanisms of Mindfulness in Communication Training
Journal of Applied Communication Research
2011
Salience Network Resting-State Activity
JAMA Neurology
2013
Do Lifestyle Activities Protect Against Cognitive Decline in Aging? A Review
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
2017
From Retreat Center to Clinic to Boardroom? Perils and Promises of the Modern Mindfulness Movement
Religions
2014
What do people mean when they talk about mindfulness?
Clinical Psychology Review
2021
Practice of therapy acquired regulatory skills and depressive relapse/recurrence prophylaxis following cognitive therapy or mindfulness based cognitive therapy.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
2019
The role of overt attention in emotion-modulated memory.
Emotion
2011
Psychedelic Research and the Need for Transparency: Polishing Alice’s Looking Glass
Frontiers in Psychology
2020
Meditation Benefits and Drawbacks: Empirical Codebook and Implications for Teaching
Journal of Cognitive Enhancement
2019
The influence of self-regulatory focus on encoding of, and memory for, emotional words
Social Neuroscience
2007
Emotions: form follows function
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
2013
The impact of a brief mindfulness training on interoception: A randomized controlled trial
PLOS ONE
2022
Functional connectivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder and its subtypes
Psychological Medicine
2019
Focus on the breath: Brain decoding reveals internal states of attention during meditation
Unknown Venue
2018
Change your stomach, change your mind
New Scientist
2012
Personalising Practice Using Preferences for Meditation Anchor Modality
Frontiers in Psychology
2018
The metronome response task for measuring mind wandering: Replication attempt and extension of three studies by Seli et al
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
2020
Frontoparietal and Default Mode Network Contributions to Self-Referential Processing in Social Anxiety Disorder
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
2021
Interoceptive appraisal and mental health
Oxford Scholarship Online
2018
Thiamine prescribing practices within university‐affiliated hospitals: A multicenter retrospective review
Journal of Hospital Medicine
2015
An experimental test of the mindfulness-to-meaning theory: Casual pathways between decentering, reappraisal, and well-being.
Emotion
2023
Editorial: Interoception, Contemplative Practice, and Health
Frontiers in Psychology
2016
Facial emotion recognition in children treated for posterior fossa tumours and typically developing children: A divergence of predictors
NeuroImage: Clinical
2019
Can neuroimaging inform economic theories of decision making?
Neuroscience and Neuroeconomics
2013
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression
PsycTHERAPY Dataset
2023
Towards a neuroimaging biomarker of depression vulnerability
Translational Neuroscience
2011
Static and treatment-responsive brain biomarkers of depression relapse vulnerability following prophylactic psychotherapy: Evidence from a randomized control trial
NeuroImage: Clinical
2022
The Neuroscience of Hypo-Egoic Processes
Oxford Handbooks Online
2016
Eye Movements and White Matter are Associated with Emotional Control in Children Treated for Brain Tumors
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
2020
An individual participant data meta-analysis of psychological interventions for preventing depression relapse
Nature Mental Health
2024
Interoceptive Awareness of the Breath Preserves Attention and Language Networks amidst Widespread Cortical Deactivation: A Within-Participant Neuroimaging Study
eneuro
2023
The Effect of Intravenous Citalopram on the Neural Substrates of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
2016
The Metronome Counting Task for measuring meta-awareness
Behavior Research Methods
2020
Clarifying Internally-Directed Cognition: A Commentary on the Attention to Thoughts Model
Psychological Inquiry
2022
Contemplating movement: A randomized control trial of yoga training for mental health
Mental Health and Physical Activity
2022
Mirroring Neurostimulation Outcomes Through Behavioral Interventions to Improve Creative Performance
Unknown Venue
2021
Meta-Cognition with a Heart: Mindfulness, Therapy, and the Cultivation of Wisdom
Psychological Inquiry
2020
Resting-state neural mechanisms of capability for suicide and their interaction with pain – A CAN-BIND-05 Study
Journal of Affective Disorders
2023
Chapter 1. What Is Mindfulness?
Becoming Mindful: Integrating Mindfulness Into Your Psychiatric Practice
2016
Training to strengthen the mental self-boundary (Self-Boundary Awareness Training, SBAT) results in greater mindfulness: How self-boundary awareness increases mindfulness
Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
2017
Neurobiology of Mindfulness-Based Interventions
Biopsychosocial Factors of Stress, and Mindfulness for Stress Reduction
2021
Can Contemplative Science Bring Meditation to (Western) Life?
Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality
2013
First-episode major depression and treatment with escitalopram: an fMRI study
European Neuropsychopharmacology
2016
From Confound to Clinical Tool: Mindfulness and the Observer Effect in Research and Therapy
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
2025
How you ask matters: evidence-based assessment connecting decentering, reappraisal, and self-reported wellbeing in a post-secondary sample
Frontiers in Education
2025
El barrio de todos los días:
Racialización
2024
An Uncertain Perspective on Consciousness
IPI Letters
2024
Se reconnecter à son corps pour être mieux dans sa tête
Cerveau & Psycho
2024
Pelatihan OSF Ricardo A Lopo
Unknown Venue
2023
Suicidal Intent Measure
PsycTESTS Dataset
2012
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development
Unknown Venue
2021
Self-other referential neural processing in social anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder
NeuroImage: Clinical
2021
Static and Treatment-Responsive Brain Biomarkers of Depression Recurrence Following Prophylactic Psychotherapy
Biological Psychiatry
2021
Stress Appraisals
Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine
2020
Online Transaction Processing
Das OSF Distributed Computing Environment
1997
Farb- und Oberflächenbeschichtungen an historischen Fassaden. Traditionell - modern - zeitlos
Bausubstanz
2020
Impact of prior treatment on remission with intermittent theta burst versus high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in treatment resistant depression
Brain Stimulation
2019
Forgetting and emotion regulation in mental health, anxiety and depression
Memory
2017
More than just a bed: mental health service users’ experiences of self-referral admission
International Journal of Mental Health Systems
2016
Prólogo del Director General de la OMC
Unknown Venue
2016
Chatbot-Based Interventions for Mental Health Support
Unknown Venue
2024
User Engagement and Wellbeing: The Role of Digital Self-Monitoring in Mental Health Support
Unknown Venue
2024
Scalable precision psychiatry with an objective measure of psychological stress: Prospective real world study (Preprint)
Unknown Venue
2024
Within-Person Modulation of Neural Networks following Interoceptive Awareness Training through Mindful Awareness in Body-Oriented Therapy (MABT): A Pilot Study
Brain Sciences
2023
A machine learning approach towards the differentiation between interoceptive and exteroceptive attention
European Journal of Neuroscience
2023
Exploring the Use of Large Language Models for Improving the Awareness of Mindfulness
Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2023
Walking the Talk: a Randomized Trial Exploring the Role of Mindfulness Booster Sessions on Skill Acquisition Following Workshop Attendance
Mindfulness
2023
Web-based training for post-secondary student well-being during the pandemic: a randomized trial
Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
2022
A Machine Learning Approach Towards the Differentiation Between Interoceptive and Exteroceptive Attention
Unknown Venue
2022
Interoceptive Awareness of the Breath Preserves Dorsal Attention Network Activity amidst Widespread Cortical Deactivation: A Within-Participant Neuroimaging Study
Unknown Venue
2022
Brief daily self-care reflection for undergraduate well-being: a randomized control trial of an online intervention
Anxiety, Stress, & Coping
2021
Modeling the mindfulness‐to‐meaning theory's mindful reappraisal hypothesis: Replication with longitudinal data from a randomized controlled study
Stress and Health
2021
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Interventions for Mood in Older Adults: How Do Qualitative Experiences Inform Clinical Response?
Mindfulness
2021
Psychedelic research and the need for transparency - Polishing Alice’s Looking Glass
Unknown Venue
2020
A Smartphone App–Based Mindfulness Intervention for Cancer Survivors: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
JMIR Research Protocols
2020
What do people mean when they talk about mindfulness?
Unknown Venue
2020
Emotion Regulation in Social Anxiety Disorder: Reappraisal and Acceptance of Negative Self-beliefs
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
2020
The Metronome Counting Task for Measuring Meta-awareness
Unknown Venue
2019
A Smartphone App–Based Mindfulness Intervention for Cancer Survivors: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)
Unknown Venue
2019
Effects of a Mindfulness Meditation App on Subjective Well-Being: Active Randomized Controlled Trial and Experience Sampling Study
JMIR Mental Health
2019
Focus on the breath: Brain decoding reveals internal states of attention during meditation
Unknown Venue
2018
Microdosing Psychedelics: Personality, mental health, and creativity differences in microdosers
Unknown Venue
2018
Effects of a Mindfulness Meditation App on Subjective Well-Being: Active Randomized Controlled Trial and Experience Sampling Study (Preprint)
Unknown Venue
2018
Personalizing Practice using Preferences for Meditation Anchor Modality
Unknown Venue
2017
Mindfulness-to-Meaning Theory - Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation
Unknown Venue
2017
A two-factor model of relapse/recurrence vulnerability in unipolar depression.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
2015
Attentional Modulation of Primary Interoceptive and Exteroceptive Cortices
Cerebral Cortex
2012

Education

University of Toronto

PhD, Psychology / December, 2010

Toronto

Experience

University of Toronto - Mississauga

Associate Professor / July, 2014Present

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