Reconfiguration of Electroencephalography Microstate Networks after Breath-Focused, Digital Meditation Training.

ABSTRACT: Sustained attention and working memory were improved in young adults after they engaged in a recently developed, closed-loop, digital meditation practice. Whether this type of meditation also has a sustained effect on dominant resting-state networks is currently unknown. In this study, we examined the resting brain states before and after a period of breath-focused, digital meditation training versus placebo using an electroencephalography (EEG) microstate approach. We found topographical changes in postmeditation rest, compared with baseline rest, selectively for participants who were actively involved in the meditation training and not in participants who engaged with an active, expectancy-match, placebo control paradigm. Our results suggest a reorganization of brain network connectivity

SUBMITTER: Brechet L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7984939 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature