Nancy A Craigmyle

The beneficial effects of meditation: contribution of the anterior cingulate and locus coeruleus.

Frontiers in Psychology 2013 Nancy A Craigmyle

During functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of meditation the cortical salience detecting and executive networks become active during "awareness of mind wandering," "shifting," and "sustained attention." The anterior cingulate (AC) is activated during "awareness of mind wandering." The AC modulates both the peripheral sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the central locus coeruleus...