Regional brain activation during meditation shows time and practice effects: An exploratory FMRI study

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 121-127

  Short, E Baron ^a,b   Kose, Samet ^a,b   Mu, Qiwen ^a   Borckardt, Jeffery ^a   Newberg, Andrew ^c   George, Mark S ^a,b,d   Kozel, F Andrew ^a,b,d,e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Attention; Dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex; Functional MRI; Meditation; Time courses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 77249178718     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nem163     Document Type: Article

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