The brain structure correlates of individual differences in trait mindfulness: A voxel-based morphometry study

Neuroscience

Volumn 272, Issue , 2014, Pages 21-28

  Lu, H ^a   Song, Y ^a   Xu, M ^a   Wang, X ^a   Li, X ^a   Liu, J ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Executive attention; Self referential processing; Trait mindfulness; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MINDFUL ATTENTION AWARENESS SCALE; MINDFULNESS; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELF REFERENTIAL PROCESSING; TRAIT MINDFULNESS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; YOUNG ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDIVIDUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MINDFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900860248     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.04.051     Document Type: Article

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