Brain Sciences
August 18, 2021
Roberto Guidotti, Cosimo Del Gratta, Mauro Gianni Perrucci et al.
27 citations
(1) The effects of intensive mental training based on meditation on the functional and structural organization of the human brain have been addressed by several neuroscientific studies. However, how large-scale connectivity patterns are affected by long-term practice of the main forms of meditation, Focused Attention (FA) and Open Monitoring (OM), as well as by aging, has not yet been...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
November 21, 2019
Roberto Guidotti, Cosimo Del Gratta, Mauro Gianni Perrucci et al.
1 citation
preprint
Abstract The effects of intensive meditation practices on the functional and structural organization of the human brain have been addressed by a growing number of neuroscientific studies. However, the different modulations of meditation expertise and of ageing, in the underlying brain areas and networks, have not yet been fully elucidated. These effects should be distinguished in order to...
Journal of Neuroscience
March 23, 2011
Carlo Sestieri, Maurizio Corbetta, Gian Luca Romani et al.
545 citations
The default mode network (DMN) is often considered a functionally homogeneous system that is broadly associated with internally directed cognition (e.g., episodic memory, theory of mind, self-evaluation). However, few studies have examined how this network interacts with other networks during putative "default" processes such as episodic memory retrieval. Using functional magnetic resonance...
Brain Research Bulletin
April 29, 2010
Antonietta Manna, Antonino Raffone, Mauro Gianni Perrucci et al.
Meditation refers to a family of complex emotional and attentional regulatory practices, which can be classified into two main styles - focused attention (FA) and open monitoring (OM) - involving different attentional, cognitive monitoring and awareness processes. In a functional magnetic resonance study we originally characterized and contrasted FA and OM meditation forms within the same...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
March 16, 2010
Francesco De Pasquale, Stefania Della Penna, Abraham Z. Snyder et al.
Functional MRI (fMRI) studies have shown that low-frequency (<0.1 Hz) spontaneous fluctuations of the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal during restful wakefulness are coherent within distributed large-scale cortical and subcortical networks (resting state networks, RSNs). The neuronal mechanisms underlying RSNs remain poorly understood. Here, we describe magnetoencephalographic...