Mindfulness meditation training alters stress-related amygdala resting state functional connectivity: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Recent studies indicate that mindfulness meditation training interventions reduce stress and improve stress-related health outcomes, but the neural pathways for these effects are unknown. The present research evaluates whether mindfulness meditation training alters resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) of the amygdala, a region known to coordinate stress processing and physiological stress responses. We show in an initial discovery study that higher perceived stress over the past month is associated with greater bilateral amygdala-subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC) rsFC in a sample of community adults (n = 130). A follow-up, single-blind randomized controlled trial shows that a 3-day intensive mindfulness meditation training intervention (relative to a well-matched 3-day re

SUBMITTER: Taren AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4666115 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature