Alterations in resting-state functional connectivity link mindfulness meditation with reduced interleukin-6: A randomized controlled trial

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 53-61

  Creswell, J David ^a   Taren, Adrienne A ^b   Lindsay, Emily K ^a   Greco, Carol M ^c   Gianaros, Peter J ^d   Fairgrieve, April ^a   Marsland, Anna L ^d   Brown, Kirk Warren ^e   Way, Baldwin M ^f   Rosen, Rhonda K ^d   Ferris, Jennifer L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITION   (United States)

^c Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Functional connectivity; IL 6; Mindfulness meditation; Stress; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; IL6 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS; MINDFULNESS MEDITATION TRAINING; PERCEIVED STRESS SCALE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; STRESS; UNEMPLOYMENT; BLOOD; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONNECTOME; INFLAMMATION; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RELAXATION THERAPY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84961825421     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.01.008     Document Type: Article

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