Altered processing of self-related emotional stimuli in mindfulness meditators

NeuroImage

Volumn 124, Issue , 2016, Pages 958-967

  Lutz, J ^a,b   Bruhl A B ^a,c   Doerig, N ^b,e   Scheerer, H ^a   Achermann, R ^b   Weibel, A ^b   Jancke L ^b   Herwig, U ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^e InterCorNet   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Functional magnetic resonance; Prefrontal cortex; Self reference; Self compassion; Vipassana

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF CRITICAL; SELF PRAISE; TASK PERFORMANCE; AFFECT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84945232504     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.057     Document Type: Article

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