7 papers in the library · 49 citations · publishing 2022-2025
Mindfulness (N Y) September 26, 2025 Saampras Ganesan, Nicholas T. van Dam, Sunjeev K. Kamboj et al. 3 citations
Neurofeedback Training Facilitates Awareness and Enhances Emotional Well-being Associated with Real-World Meditation Practice: A 7-T MRI Study.
Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging April 1, 2025 Saampras Ganesan, Fernando A Barrios, Ishaan Batta et al. 6 citations
Meditation is a family of ancient and contemporary contemplative mind-body practices that can modulate psychological processes, awareness, and mental states. Over the last 40 years, clinical science has manualized meditation practices and designed various meditation interventions that have shown therapeutic efficacy for disorders including depression, pain, addiction, and anxiety. Over the past...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) October 26, 2024 Saampras Ganesan, Nicholas T. van Dam, Sunjeev K. Kamboj et al. 3 citations preprint
Meditation can benefit well-being and mental health, but novices often struggle to effectively recognize and disengage from mental processes during meditation due to limited awareness, potentially diminishing meditation's benefits. We investigated whether personalised high-precision neurofeedback (NF) can improve disengagement from mental activity during meditation and enhance meditation's...
Human Brain Mapping May 1, 2024 Saampras Ganesan, Winson F.z. Yang, Avijit Chowdhury et al. 23 citations
Advanced meditation such as jhana meditation can produce various altered states of consciousness (jhanas) and cultivate rewarding psychological qualities including joy, peace, compassion, and attentional stability. Mapping the neurobiological substrates of jhana meditation can inform the development and application of advanced meditation to enhance well-being. Only two prior studies have...
Brain Research Bulletin October 15, 2023 Saampras Ganesan, Bradford A. Moffat, Nicholas T. van Dam et al. 13 citations
Mapping the neurobiology of meditation has been bolstered by functional MRI (fMRI) research, with advancements in ultra-high field 7 Tesla fMRI further enhancing signal quality and neuroanatomical resolution. Here, we utilize 7 Tesla fMRI to examine the neural substrates of meditation and replicate existing widespread findings, after accounting for relevant physiological confounds. In this...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) January 3, 2023 Saampras Ganesan, Bradford A. Moffat, Nicholas T. van Dam et al. 1 citation preprint
Abstract Objectives Mapping the neurobiology of meditation using 3 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) has burgeoned recently. However, limitations in signal quality and neuroanatomical resolution have impacted reliability and precision of extant findings. Although ultra-high strength 7 Tesla MRI overcomes these limitations, investigation of meditation using 7 Tesla fMRI is still in its infancy....
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews October 1, 2022 Saampras Ganesan, Emillie Beyer, Bradford A. Moffat et al.
Meditation trains the mind to focus attention towards an object or experience. Among different meditation techniques, focused attention meditation is considered foundational for more advanced practices. Despite renewed interest in its functional neural correlates, there is no unified neurocognitive model of focused attention meditation developed via quantitative synthesis of contemporary...