Altered processing of self-related emotional stimuli in mindfulness meditators.
Neuroimage 2016 J Lutz, Annette B Brühl, N Doerig et al.
Mental health benefits of mindfulness techniques are thought to involve changes in self-processing, such as decreased attachment to the self, higher self-compassion and lower emotional reactivity to inner experience. However, self-related emotion processing in regular mindfulness practitioners is not extensively studied. In the current work we investigate differential neural and behavioral...
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.057 (opens in new tab)
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Vipassana
Emotion regulation
Functional magnetic resonance
Prefrontal cortex
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