Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions

Increases in whole brain grey matter associated with long-term Sahaja Yoga Meditation: a detailed area by area description

The paper investigates regional grey matter volume differences between long-term Sahaja Yoga Meditation practitioners and controls using a novel statistical approach, finding significant increases in specific brain areas.

Studying the precuneus reveals structure-function-affect correlation in long-term meditators

This paper examines the relationship between brain structure, function, and self-reports in long-term meditators, finding negative correlations between precuneus gray matter density and meditation experience and positive affect.

Mindfulness meditation alters neural activity underpinning working memory during tactile distraction

This study finds that mindfulness meditation alters neural activity patterns during working memory tasks, leading to improved performance and different distribution of P300 and alpha activity.

Focus on the breath: Brain decoding reveals internal states of attention during meditation

This paper uses MVPA on fMRI data to decode internal attention states during meditation, finding that participants spent more time on breath attention than other states.

Mindfulness meditators show enhanced working memory performance concurrent with different brain region engagement patterns during recall

This study finds that mindfulness meditators show improved working memory accuracy with different brain activation patterns, but no differences in oscillation activity during the memory delay.

Mindfulness meditation experience is associated with increased ability to monitor covert somatosensory attention

This study finds that mindfulness meditation experience is linked to enhanced ability to monitor moment-by-moment attentional states through changes in alpha power in somatosensory regions.

Experienced meditators exhibit no differences to demographically-matched controls in theta phase synchronisation, P200, or P300 during an auditory oddball task

Sustained modulation of emotion-related fibers after 8 weeks of mindfulness-based stress reduction training

This study shows that 8 weeks of mindfulness-based stress reduction training leads to sustained microstructural changes in white matter tracts up to 6 months after training ends.

Disentangling functional connectivity effects of age and expertise in long-term meditators

This study predicts meditation expertise and age from functional MRI connectivity patterns in long-term meditators, showing distinct effects of expertise and age on brain networks.

When two mindfulnesses meet.

The paper tests whether self-regulation of attention mediates the relationship between two mindfulness conceptualizations, finding partial mediation but no clear directional basis.

Mindfulness meditators show altered distributions of early and late neural activity markers of attention in a response inhibition task

The paper compares neural activity patterns between mindfulness meditators and controls during a response inhibition task, finding altered distributions of attention-related markers.

The Human Default Consciousness and its Disruption: Insights from an EEG Study of Buddhist Jhana Meditation

This paper reports an EEG study of Buddhist jhana meditation, finding unique brain activity patterns distinct from typical meditation and resembling sleep or seizure states.

Assessing the impact of mindfulness attitudes on attentional quality through focused breath induction.

This study examines the effect of mindfulness attitudes on attentional control using a focused breath induction, finding no significant changes in attentional metrics.

Mindfulness meditators do not show differences in electrophysiological measures of error processing

This study finds no differences in EEG measures of error processing between mindfulness meditators and controls, despite prior conflicting results.

Visual signals suppress Alpha Power Increases & Frequency Decreases before and after a Mindfulness Meditation Intervention for Problem Gambling

This study examines changes in alpha oscillations in individuals with problem gambling before and after mindfulness meditation interventions, finding distinct patterns compared to healthy individuals.