Meditation experience is associated with differences in default mode network activity and connectivity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 50, 2011, Pages 20254-20259

  Brewer, Judson A ^a   Worhunsky, Patrick D ^a   Gray, Jeremy R ^b   Tang, Yi Yuan ^c   Weber, Jochen ^d   Kober, Hedy ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Mindfulness; Task positive network

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LOVE; MEDITATION; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN MAPPING; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MEDITATION; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF REPORT; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84055178581     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112029108     Document Type: Article

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