Mindful attention to breath regulates emotions via increased amygdala-prefrontal cortex connectivity

NeuroImage

Volumn 134, Issue , 2016, Pages 305-313

  Doll, Anselm ^a,b,c   Hölzel, Britta K ^a,b   Mulej Bratec, Satja ^a,b,c   Boucard, Christine C ^a,b   Xie, Xiyao ^a,b   Wohlschläger, Afra M ^a,b,c   Sorg, Christian ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention to breath; Emotion regulation; fMRI; Mindfulness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BREATHING; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MINDFULNESS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; AMYGDALA; BREATHING MECHANICS; EMOTION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; CONNECTOME; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINDFULNESS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 84963945118     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.03.041     Document Type: Article

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