Yoga meditation practitioners exhibit greater gray matter volume and fewer reported cognitive failures: Results of a preliminary voxel-based morphometric analysis

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Froeliger, Brett ^a   Garland, Eric L ^b   McClernon, F Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE FAILURES QUESTIONNAIRE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; GRAY MATTER VOLUME; HUMAN; INSULA; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MOOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; YOGA;

EID: 84871842045     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/821307     Document Type: Article

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