Functional magnetic resonance imaging of hippocampal activation during silent mantra meditation.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) December 1, 2010 Maria Engström, Johan Pihlsgård, Peter Lundberg et al.
The objective of the present study was to investigate whether moderately experienced meditators activate hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex during silent mantra meditation, as has been observed in earlier studies on subjects with several years of practice. Subjects with less than 2 years of meditation practice according to the Kundalini yoga or Acem tradition were examined by functional...