Neural correlates of mindful self-awareness in mindfulness meditators and meditation-naïve subjects revisited

Biological Psychology

Volumn 119, Issue , 2016, Pages 21-30

  Lutz, J ^a,b,e   Bruhl A B ^a,c   Scheerer, H ^a   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 CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Body awareness; Default mode network; DMPFC; Emotion regulation; Self

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANALYSIS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDITATION; MINDFUL SELF AWARENESS; MINDFULNESS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR INSULA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REFERENTIAL THINKING; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; THINKING; VERBALIZATION; AWARENESS; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALA; AWARENESS; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; SELF CONCEPT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84978159474     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.06.010     Document Type: Article

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