An investigation of brain processes supporting meditation.
Cognitive processing February 2010 Klaus B Baerentsen, Hans Stødkilde-Jørgensen, Bo Sommerlund et al.
Meditation is an ancient spiritual practice, which aims to still the fluctuations of the mind. We investigated meditation with fMRI in order to identify and characterise both the "neural switch" mechanism used in the voluntary shift from normal consciousness to meditation and the "threshold regulation mechanism" sustaining the meditative state. Thirty-one individuals with 1.5-25 years...