Mindfulness: Top-down or bottom-up emotion regulation strategy?

Clinical Psychology Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 82-96

  Chiesa, Alberto ^a,b   Serretti, Alessandro ^a   Jakobsen, Janus Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Meditation; Mindfulness; Neuro imaging; Top down

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; DOWN REGULATION; EMOTION; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MEDITATION; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MINDFULNESS; MOOD; ORBITAL CORTEX; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; UPREGULATION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MEDITATION;

EID: 84868484525     PISSN: 02727358     EISSN: 18737811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2012.10.006     Document Type: Review

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