Shifting brain asymmetry: The link between meditation and structural lateralization

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 55-61

  Kurth, Florian ^a   MacKenzie Graham, Allan ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^b   Luders, Eileen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Default mode network; Gray matter; Mindfulness; MRI; VBM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GRAY MATTER; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; PARIETAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85017286267     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu029     Document Type: Article

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