How does mindfulness meditation work? Proposing mechanisms of action from a conceptual and neural perspective

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 537-559

  Hölzel, Britta K ^a,b   Lazar, Sara W ^b   Gard, Tim ^a,b   Schuman Olivier, Zev ^b   Vago, David R ^c   Ott, Ulrich ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety disorders; attention; cognition; consciousness; neuroscience; positive psychology; stress disorders

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755186059     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691611419671     Document Type: Review

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