Decoding meditation mechanisms underlying brain preservation and psycho-affective health in older expert meditators and older meditation-naive participants.
Scientific Reports November 27, 2024 Sacha Haudry, Anne-Laure Turpin, Brigitte Landeau et al. 3 citations
Meditation is a mental training approach that can improve mental health and well-being in aging. Yet the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. The Medit-Ageing model stipulates that three mechanisms - attentional, constructive, and deconstructive - upregulate positive psycho-affective factors and downregulate negative ones. To test this hypothesis, we measured brain structural MRI and...
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Meditation
Brain
Humans
Magnetic resonance imaging
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