Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
December 1, 2024
Ai-Ling Hsu, Chun-Yu Wu, Hei-Yin Hydra Ng et al.
Practicing mindfulness is a mental process toward interoceptive awareness, achieving stress reduction and emotion regulation through brain-function alteration. Literature has shown that electroencephalography (EEG)-derived connectivity possesses the potential to differentiate brain functions between mindfulness naïve and mindfulness experienced, where such quantitative differentiation could...
Journal of Neuroscience Research
June 1, 2023
Hei-Yin Hydra Ng, Changwei W Wu, Feng-Ying Huang et al.
Practicing mindfulness, focusing attention on the internal and external experiences occurring in the present moment with open and nonjudgement stance, can lead to the development of emotional regulation skills. Yet, the effective connectivity of brain regions during mindfulness has been largely unexplored. Studies have shown that mindfulness practice promotes functional connectivity in...
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
March 21, 2023
Shiao-Fei Guu, Yi-Ping Chao, Feng-Ying Huang et al.
28 citations
Mindfulness refers to a mental state of awareness of internal experience without judgment. Studies have suggested that each mindfulness practice may involve a unique mental state, but the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms remain unknown. Here we examined how distinct mindfulness practices after mindfulness-based intervention alter brain functionality. Specifically, we investigated the...
Neuroimage
May 1, 2021
Pengmin Qin, Xuehai Wu, Changwei W Wu et al.
51 citations
Consciousness is a mental characteristic of the human mind, whose exact neural features remain unclear. We aimed to identify the critical nodes within the brain's global functional network that support consciousness. To that end, we collected a large fMRI resting state dataset with subjects in at least one of the following three consciousness states: preserved (including the healthy awake...
Human Brain Mapping
August 1, 2019
Yi-Chia Kung, Chia-Wei Li, Shuo Chen et al.
Nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep is associated with fading consciousness in humans. Recent neuroimaging studies have demonstrated the spatiotemporal alterations of the brain functional connectivity (FC) in NREM sleep, suggesting the changes of information integration in the sleeping brain. However, the common stationarity assumption in FC does not satisfactorily explain the dynamic process of...
Neuroimage
July 1, 2018
Qihong Zou, Shuqin Zhou, Jing Xu et al.
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep has been frequently associated with dreaming. However, mounting evidence obtained from behavioral, pharmacological, and brain imaging studies suggests that REM sleep is not indicative of the dream report and may originate from diverse neural substrates in brain functionality. The aim of the current study was to investigate the functional systems associated with...