Davide Laneri

Mindfulness meditation regulates anterior insula activity during empathy for social pain.

Human Brain Mapping August 2017 Davide Laneri, Sören Krach, Frieder M Paulus et al.

Mindfulness has been shown to reduce stress, promote health, and well-being, as well as to increase compassionate behavior toward others. It reduces distress to one's own painful experiences, going along with altered neural responses, by enhancing self-regulatory processes and decreasing emotional reactivity. In order to investigate if mindfulness similarly reduces distress and neural...