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NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 487, Issue 3, Pages 358-362Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.10.056
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Meditation; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Default mode network; Resting state
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- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [R31-2009-000-10089-0]
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Areas associated with the default mode network (DMN) are substantially similar to those associated with meditation practice. However, no studies on DMN connectivity during resting states have been conducted on meditation practitioners. It was hypothesized that meditators would show heightened functional connectivity in areas of cortical midline activity. Thirty-five meditation practitioners and 33 healthy controls without meditation experience were included in this study. All subjects received 4.68-mm resting state functional scanning runs. The posterior cingulate cortex and medial prefrontal cortex were chosen as seed regions for the DMN map. Meditation practitioners demonstrated greater functional connectivity within the DMN in the medial prefrontal cortex area (xyz = 339-21) than did controls. These results suggest that the long-term practice of meditation may be associated with functional changes in regions related to internalized attention even when meditation is not being practiced. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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