The Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Impulsivity and its Neurobiological Correlates in Healthy Adults.

ABSTRACT: Interest has grown in using mindfulness meditation to treat conditions featuring excessive impulsivity. However, while prior studies find that mindfulness practice can improve attention, it remains unclear whether it improves other cognitive faculties whose deficiency can contribute to impulsivity. Here, an eight-week mindfulness intervention did not reduce impulsivity on the go/no-go task or Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11), nor produce changes in neural correlates of impulsivity (i.e. frontostriatal gray matter, functional connectivity, and dopamine levels) compared to active or wait-list control groups. Separately, long-term meditators (LTMs) did not perform differently than meditation-naïve participants (MNPs) on the go/no-go task. However, LTMs self-reported lower attentional impu

SUBMITTER: Korponay C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6700173 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature