Karina S. Blair

Cognitive-Affective Neural Plasticity following Active-Controlled Mindfulness Intervention

Journal of Neuroscience October 31, 2012 Micah Allen, Martin Dietz, Karina S. Blair et al. 389 citations

Mindfulness meditation is a set of attention-based, regulatory, and self-inquiry training regimes. Although the impact of mindfulness training (MT) on self-regulation is well established, the neural mechanisms supporting such plasticity are poorly understood. MT is thought to act through interoceptive salience and attentional control mechanisms, but until now conflicting evidence from...