Preliminary functional magnetic resonance imaging Stroop task results before and after a Zen meditation retreat
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences June 1, 2008 Elisa H. Kozasa, João Radvany, M. Barreiros et al.
FOR MANY CENTURIES, Asian philosophers have affirmed that there are different states of awareness to be developed through meditation.1 Meditation results in changes in cognition, sensory perception, affect, hormones, and autonomic activity. Until today, there have been very few imaging studies of the neural correlates of meditation. Most of them study the act of meditation by experienced...