Greater widespread functional connectivity of the caudate in older adults who practice kripalu yoga and vipassana meditation than in controls.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2015 Tim Gard, Maxime Taquet, Rohan Dixit et al.
There has been a growing interest in understanding how contemplative practices affect brain functional organization. However, most studies have restricted their exploration to predefined networks. Furthermore, scientific comparisons of different contemplative traditions are largely lacking. Here we explored differences in whole brain resting state functional connectivity between experienced...
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00137 (opens in new tab)
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Aging
Basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits
Caudate
Degree centrality
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