[The neurobiological dimension of meditation--results from neuroimaging studies].
Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, medizinische Psychologie December 2006 Norbert-Ullrich Neumann, Karel Frasch
Meditation in general can be understood as a state of complete and unintentional silent and motionless concentration on an activity, an item or an idea. Subjectively, meditative experience is said to be fundamentally different from "normal" mental states and is characterized by terms like timelessness, boundlessness and lack of self-experience. In recent years, several fMRI- and PET-studies...