Meditation's impact on default mode network and hippocampus in mild cognitive impairment: Pilot study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 556, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-19

  Wells, Rebecca Erwin ^a   Yeh, Gloria Y ^a   Kerr, Catherine E ^b   Wolkin, Jennifer ^a   Davis, Roger B ^a   Tan, Ying ^c   Spaeth, Rosa ^c   Wall, Robert B ^d   Walsh, Jacquelyn ^e   Kaptchuk, Ted J ^a   Press, Daniel ^a   Phillips, Russell S ^a   Kong, Jian ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Commonwealth Care Alliance ^*  (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's Disease; Default mode network; FMRI; Hippocampus; Meditation; Mild cognitive impairment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION; MORPHOMETRICS; PILOT STUDY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; YOGA;

AD; ADAS-COG; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ASSESSMENT SCALE, COGNITIVE SUBSCALE; BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER; BIDMC; CDR; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DMN; FMRI; HIPPOCAMPUS; MBSR; MCI; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEDITATION; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION; MINI-MENTAL STATUS EXAM; MMSE; MPFC; PCC; POSTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; REGION OF INTEREST; ROI;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE NET; PILOT PROJECTS; REST;

EID: 84887377806     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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