Mantra Meditation Suppression of Default Mode Beyond an Active Task: a Pilot Study
May 22, 2017 Rozalyn Simon, Johan Pihlsgård, Ulrika Berglind et al.
Within the field of neuroimaging, the discovery of a constellation of brain regions silently active when we are “resting” has provided a new view into the elusive effects of meditative practice. This network, called the default mode network (DMN), has been shown by functional neuroimaging to be active when an individual is at rest. Meta-analyses of the fMRI neurocorrelates of meditation have...