The Structure of Mindful Brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Murakami, Hiroki ^a   Nakao, Takashi ^b   Matsunaga, Masahiro ^c   Kasuya, Yukinori ^d   Shinoda, Jun ^d   Yamada, Jitsuhiro ^d   Ohira, Hideki ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d Kizawa Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIVE FACET MINDFULNESS QUESTIONNAIRE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MINDFULNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867028245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046377     Document Type: Article

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