Frontiers in Psychology
February 7, 2020
Seoyeon Kwak, So-yeon Kim, Dahye Bae et al.
While recent studies have suggested behavioral effects of short-term meditation on the executive attentional functions, functional changes in the neural correlates of attentional networks after short-term meditation have been unspecified. Here, we conducted a randomized control trial to investigate the effects of a 4-day intensive meditation on the neural correlates of three attentional...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
March 26, 2019
Seoyeon Kwak, Tae Young Lee, W. Jung et al.
While recent studies have explored the maintenance of the effect of meditation on stress resilience, the underlying neural mechanisms have not yet been investigated. The present study conducted a highly controlled residential study of a 4-day meditation intervention to investigate the brain functional changes and long-term effects of meditation on mindfulness and resilience. Thirty participants...
Psychology, Health & Medicine
June 2018
Wu-Jeong Hwang, Tae Young Lee, Kyung-Ok Lim et al.
The interest in mindfulness meditation interventions has surged due to their beneficial effects in fostering resilience and reducing stress in both clinical and non-clinical populations. However, the relaxation benefits that may occur while practicing mindfulness meditation and long-term benefits of these interventions remain unclear. Fifty-one participants were recruited and randomized into...
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
May 27, 2016
Jee-Hyung Suh, Tae Young Lee, Jun Soo Kwon
1 citation
Psilocybin, a classical tryptamine hallucinogen, serves as a model of acute psychosis in humans.Intoxication with this compound induces significant alterations in perception, thought disturbance and emotional processing, effects that mimic psychotic symptoms.The neurochemical basis of its effects is related to the stimulation of serotonin 5-HT 1A a 5-HT 2A/C receptors.Disconnection is one of...
Schizophrenia Research
2014
Ji-Won Hur, Jun Soo Kwon, Tae Young Lee et al.
165 citations
Disturbances of the minimal self, characterized by abnormal sense of the body, body ownership and agency have been proposed as the phenomenological phenotype of schizophrenia. However, self-disturbances have not been extensively investigated, in part, due to the subjective nature of such processes, and the associated difficulty of studying these phenomena using empirical methodology. Of 115...