George Bush

Functional brain mapping of the relaxation response and meditation

Neuroreport May 1, 2000 Sara W. Lazar, George Bush, Randy L. Gollub et al. 443 citations

Meditation is a conscious mental process that induces a set of integrated physiologic changes termed the relaxation response. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to identify and characterize the brain regions that are active during a simple form of meditation. Significant (p <10−7) signal increases were observed in the group-averaged data in the dorsolateral prefrontal and...