Age effects on gray matter volume and attentional performance in Zen meditation

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1623-1627

  Pagnoni, Giuseppe ^a   Cekic, Milos ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Gray matter; Meditation; Plasticity; Training; VBM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDITATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPROTECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; STRESS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGING; ATROPHY; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 34547750462     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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