Impact of short- and long-term mindfulness meditation training on amygdala reactivity to emotional stimuli

NeuroImage

Volumn 181, Issue , 2018, Pages 301-313

  Kral, Tammi R A ^a,b   Schuyler, Brianna S ^a,b   Mumford, Jeanette A ^a,b   Rosenkranz, Melissa A ^a,b   Lutz, Antoine ^a,b,d   Davidson, Richard J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Connectivity; Emotion regulation; Meditation; Mindfulness; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MINDFULNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; CONNECTOME; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMOTION; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CONNECTOME; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85049743830     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.07.013     Document Type: Article

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