Effects of web-based mindfulness training on psychological outcomes, attention, and neuroplasticity.

ABSTRACT: Mindfulness meditation training (MMT) reliably reduces stress and anxiety while also improving attention. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between MMT, stress and anxiety reduction, and its impact upon improvements in attention on the behavioral and neuronal levels. As a second aim, we sought to explore any relationship between MMT, attention, and modified states of mind such as flow. 118 healthy, meditation-naïve, participants were either assigned to a 31-day, web-based, MMT or an active control, health training (HT). Participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing the attention network test (ANT) to assess functional and behavioural attentional changes, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to assess microstructural neuronal changes

SUBMITTER: Mora Alvarez MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10730881 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature