Cerebral blood flow differences between long-term meditators and non-meditators

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 899-905

  Newberg, Andrew B ^a,b   Wintering, Nancy ^a,b   Waldman, Mark R ^b   Amen, Daniel ^c   Khalsa, Dharma S ^b,d   Alavi, Abass ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Amen Clinics Inc   (United States)

^d Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Beliefs; Cerebral blood flow; Meditation; SPECT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUTAMEN; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS;

ADULT; BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEDITATION; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUTAMEN; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78149497469     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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