Neuroimaging and Neuropsychology of Meditation StatesBarbara Tomasino, Franco Fabbro Neurophysiological and psychological modifications induced by meditation practice have been consistently addressed by neuroscience. Training meditation practice induced plasticity (Barinaga, 2003; Knight, 2004), and as a consequence several benefit for mental and physical health (Davidson & McEwen, 2012), and cognitive performance. One goal of meditation is to achieve the light of consciousness observing with equanimity (the right distance) clouds of the mind wandering. This Frontiers Research Topic brings together studies from groups of authors whose research focus on neuropsychological systems involved in meditation demonstrating how meditation activates and can modify brain areas, cognitive mechanisms and well-being. |
Contents
Neuroimaging and Neuropsychology of Meditation States | 6 |
Patanjali and neuroscientific research on meditation | 9 |
effects on attention conflict monitoring and creativity A review | 13 |
Networkbased characterization of brain functional connectivity in Zen practitioners | 18 |
The default mode network as a biomarker for monitoring the therapeutic effects of meditation | 32 |
Calm and smart? A selective review of meditation effects on decision making | 42 |
a theoretical model | 53 |
Listening to thetafrequency binaural beats postexercise increases parasympathetic activation and sympathetic withdrawal | 65 |
Mindfulness meditation modulates reward prediction errors in a passive conditioning task | 85 |
Mindfulness meditation and explicit and implicit indicators of personality and selfconcept changes | 93 |
Meditation reduces painrelated neural activity in the anterior cingulate cortex insula secondary somatosensory cortex and thalamus | 99 |
Mechanisms of white matter change induced by meditation training | 111 |
potential agedefying effects of longterm meditation on gray matter atrophy | 115 |
differential effects in women and men | 122 |
Mindfulness Meditation Helps Keep Readers with Dyslexia and ADHD on the Lexical Track | 128 |
Back cover | 146 |
Shortterm meditation increases blood flow in anterior cingulate cortex and insula | 75 |
Time course of conflict processing modulated by brief meditation training | 79 |
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