Meditation and the brain: Attention, control and emotion

Mens Sana Monographs

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 276-283

  Mograbi, Gabriel José Corrêa ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Attention; Compassion; Concentration; Emotion; Neural correlates of meditative states

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955098448     PISSN: 09731229     EISSN: 19984014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1229.77444     Document Type: Article

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