High-precision neurofeedback-guided meditation training optimises real-world self-guided meditation practice for well-being.

ABSTRACT: Meditation can benefit well-being and mental health, but novices often struggle to effectively recognize and disengage from mental processes during meditation due to limited awareness, potentially diminishing meditation's benefits. We investigated whether personalised high-precision neurofeedback (NF) can improve disengagement from mental activity during meditation and enhance meditation's outcomes. In a single-blind, controlled, longitudinal paradigm, 40 novice meditators underwent two consecutive days of meditation training with intermittent visual feedback from either their own (N=20) or a matched participant's (N=20; control group) posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) activity measured using 7 Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging. During training, the experimental group showed stron

SUBMITTER: Ganesan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11527123 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature