Searching for Mindfulness in the Brain: A Process-Oriented Approach to Examining the Neural Correlates of Mindfulness

Mindfulness

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-63

  Fletcher, Lindsay B ^a   Schoendorff, Benjamin ^b   Hayes, Steven C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Acceptance and commitment therapy; Functional contextualism; Meditation; Mindfulness; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867583630     PISSN: 18688527     EISSN: 18688535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12671-010-0006-5     Document Type: Review

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