Changes in cerebral blood flow and anxiety associated with an 8-week mindfulness programme in women with breast cancer

Stress and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 397-407

  Monti, Daniel A ^a   Kash, Kathryn M ^a   Kunkel, Elisabeth J S ^b   Brainard, George ^b   Wintering, Nancy ^a   Moss, Aleezé S ^a   Rao, Hengyi ^c   Zhu, Senhua ^b   Newberg, Andrew B ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

art therapy; cerebral blood flow; fMRI; meditation; mindfulness; stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ART THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BREAST CANCER; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULA; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS BASED ART THERAPY; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGED; ANXIETY; BRAIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84868523674     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.2470     Document Type: Article

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