Resting State Functional Connectivity Associated With Sahaja Yoga Meditation
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Other documents of the author: Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Elías Hernández, Sergio; XIAO, YAQIONG; González-Mora, José Luis; Rubia, Katya
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Resting State Functional Connectivity Associated With Sahaja Yoga MeditationAuthor (s)
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2021-03-16Publisher
Frontiers Media S.AISSN
1662-5161Bibliographic citation
Barrós-Loscertales A, Hernández SE, Xiao Y, González-Mora JL and Rubia K (2021) Resting State Functional Connectivity Associated With Sahaja Yoga Meditation. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 15:614882.Type
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Abstract
Neuroscience research has shown that meditation practices have effects on brain
structure and function. However, few studies have combined information on the effects
on structure and function in the same sample. ... [+]
Neuroscience research has shown that meditation practices have effects on brain
structure and function. However, few studies have combined information on the effects
on structure and function in the same sample. Long-term daily meditation practice
produces repeated activity of specific brain networks over years of practice, which
may induce lasting structural and functional connectivity (FC) changes within relevant
circuits. The aim of our study was therefore to identify differences in FC during the
resting state between 23 Sahaja Yoga Meditation experts and 23 healthy participants
without meditation experience. Seed-based FC analysis was performed departing from
voxels that had shown structural differences between these same participants. The
contrast of connectivity maps yielded that meditators showed increased FC between
the left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex but
reduced FC between the left insula and the bilateral mid-cingulate as well as between
the right angular gyrus and the bilateral precuneus/cuneus cortices. It thus appears that
long-term meditation practice increases direct FC between ventral and dorsal frontal
regions within brain networks related to attention and cognitive control and decreases
FC between regions of these networks and areas of the default mode network. [-]
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UJI-B2020-30 | UJI-B2016-21
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Efecto de la sensibilidad a la recompensa sobre la congruencia motivacional local-global en tareas de control ejecutivo. | Modulación de las diferencias individuales en la sensibilidad del sistema de activación conductual sobre el control ejecutivo bajo contingencias motivacionales.
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