Meditation effects within the hippocampal complex revealed by voxel-based morphometry and cytoarchitectonic probabilistic mapping

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Luders, Eileen ^a   Kurth, Florian ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Narr, Katherine L ^a   Gaser, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytoarchitectonics; Hippocampus; Mapping; Meditation; Mindfulness; MRI; Subiculum; VBM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885350160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00398     Document Type: Article

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