Neuroimaging of meditation's effect on brain reactivity to pain

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1359-1363

  Orme Johnson, David W ^a,c   Schneider, Robert H ^a   Son, Young D ^b   Nidich, Sanford ^a   Cho, Zang Hee ^b  

^a MAHARISHI UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Functionalmagnetic resonance imaging; Neuroimaging; Pain; Prefrontal cortex; Thalamus; Transcendental Meditation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PAIN;

EID: 33748373817     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000233094.67289.a8     Document Type: Article

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