Neuroprotective effects of yoga practice: age-, experience-, and frequency-dependent plasticity

C Villemure, M Čeko, VA Cotton… - Frontiers in human …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Yoga combines postures, breathing, and meditation. Despite reported health benefits,
yoga's effects on the brain have received little study. We used magnetic resonance imaging …

Does meditation alter brain responses to negative stimuli? A systematic review

AA Magalhaes, L Oliveira, MG Pereira… - Frontiers in Human …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Background: Despite several attempts to review and explain how meditation alters the brain
and facilitates emotion regulation, the extent to which meditation and emotion regulation …

Meditation and yoga practice are associated with smaller right amygdala volume: the Rotterdam study

RA Gotink, MW Vernooij, MA Ikram, WJ Niessen… - Brain imaging and …, 2018 - Springer
To determine the association between meditation and yoga practice, experienced stress,
and amygdala and hippocampal volume in a large population-based study. This study was …

[HTML][HTML] Brief mindfulness meditation improves emotion processing

R Wu, LL Liu, H Zhu, WJ Su, ZY Cao… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Mindfulness-based interventions have previously been shown to have positive effects on
psychological well-being. However, the time commitment, teacher shortage, and high cost of …

Investigation of mindfulness meditation practitioners with voxel-based morphometry

BK Hölzel, U Ott, T Gard, H Hempel… - Social cognitive and …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Mindfulness meditators practice the non-judgmental observation of the ongoing stream of
internal experiences as they arise. Using voxel-based morphometry, this study investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Meditation training increases brain efficiency in an attention task

EH Kozasa, JR Sato, SS Lacerda, MAM Barreiros… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
Meditation is a mental training, which involves attention and the ability to maintain focus on a
particular object. In this study we have applied a specific attentional task to simply measure …

Functional Connectivity of Prefrontal Cortex in Various Meditation Techniques–A Mini-Review

M Rathore, M Verma, M Nirwan… - International Journal of …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Meditation is a practice of concentration and relaxation. In philosophical terms, it is a
process of gaining self-consciousness. Although there is diversity in meditation …

Brain functional basis of subjective well-being during negative facial emotion processing task-based fMRI

Z Ren, L Shi, D Wei, J Qiu - Neuroscience, 2019 - Elsevier
Subjective well-being (SWB) is the eternal pursuit of all mankind. Individual differences in
SWB may reflect the way of emotional processing. Neuroimaging studies have partly …

The neural correlates of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness: an fMRI study

T Costa, AC Suardi, M Diano, F Cauda, S Duca… - Neuroscience …, 2019 - Elsevier
The current study investigated the neural correlates of both hedonic and eudaimonic
happiness. Seventeen students underwent fMRI while cued with written sentences …

[HTML][HTML] Meditation and yoga can modulate brain mechanisms that affect behavior and anxiety-A modern scientific perspective

D Krishnakumar, MR Hamblin, S Lakshmanan - Ancient science, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Meditation and Yoga techniques are receiving increased attention throughout the world, due
to the accumulation of evidence based research that proves the direct and indirect benefits …