Investigation of mindfulness meditation practitioners with voxel-based morphometry
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience December 3, 2007 Britta K. Hölzel, Ulrich Ott, Tim Gard et al. 544 citations
Mindfulness meditators practice the non-judgmental observation of the ongoing stream of internal experiences as they arise. Using voxel-based morphometry, this study investigated MRI brain images of 20 mindfulness (Vipassana) meditators (mean practice 8.6 years; 2 h daily) and compared the regional gray matter concentration to that of non-meditators matched for sex, age, education and...
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Meditation
Mindfulness
Voxel-based morphometry
Insula
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