Preventive effect of one-session brief focused attention meditation on state fatigue: Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging study.
Neuroimage August 15, 2024 Noriki Yamaya, Teruo Hashimoto, Shigeyuki Ikeda et al.
A single 10-minute session of focused attention meditation can prevent state fatigue in people who have never meditated before. In a randomized trial with 56 meditation-naïve participants, those who practiced focused attention meditation maintained their performance on a 60-minute fatigue-inducing Go/NoGo task, while a control group showed declining performance. Brain imaging revealed that the meditation group had increased functional connectivity between the left dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and right superior parietal lobule, suggesting cognitive effort improved attention regulation. In contrast, the control group showed increased connectivity between the posterior cingulate cortex and left inferior occipital gyrus, linked to poor attention and reduced cognitive function.