Interaction between neuroanatomical and psychological changes after mindfulness-based training

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Santarnecchi, Emiliano ^a,b,c   D'Arista, Sicilia ^b   Egiziano, Eutizio ^b   Gardi, Concetta ^b   Petrosino, Roberta ^b   Vatti, Giampaolo ^a   Reda, Mario ^b   Rossi, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION TRAINING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VOLUMETRY; VOXEL BASED CORTICAL THICKNESS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; MINDFULNESS; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS; NEUROANATOMY; ORGAN SIZE; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84908193625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108359     Document Type: Article

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