Mindfulness meditation and gene expression: a hypothesis-generating framework
Current Opinion in Psychology July 11, 2019 David S. Black, Georgia Christodoulou, S. Cole
Recent research in functional genomics shows that social stressors affect the expression of immune response genes. These effects are mediated in part via our adaptive capacity for intracellular molecules to respond to extracellular signals, a process called signal transduction. Under this framework, one way stressors can be transduced into cellular changes is through central nervous system...