Meditation and neurodegenerative diseases

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1307, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 112-123

  Newberg, Andrew B ^a   Serruya, Mijail ^a   Wintering, Nancy ^a   Moss, Aleezé Sattar ^a   Reibel, Diane ^a   Monti, Daniel A ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Meditation; Memory; Mindfulness; Neurodegenerative disease

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDITATION; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING;

COGNITION; MEDITATION; MEMORY; MINDFULNESS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDITATION; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PICK DISEASE OF THE BRAIN; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84892480867     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12187     Document Type: Article

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