Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, Nonmeditative State

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER 2012, 2012, Pages

  Desbordes, Gaëlle ^a,b   Negi, Lobsang Tenzin ^c   Pace, Thaddeus W W ^c   Alan Wallace, B ^d   Raison, Charles L ^e   Schwartz, Eric L ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention; Compassion; Emotion; fMRI; Meditation; Mindfulness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITIVELY BASED COMPASSION TRAINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STIMULUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDITATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; MINDFUL ATTENTION TRAINING; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84933673218     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00292     Document Type: Article

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