There Is More to Mindfulness Than Emotion Regulation: A Study on Brain Structural Networks.

ABSTRACT: Dispositional mindfulness and emotion regulation are two psychological constructs closely interrelated, and both appear to improve with the long-term practice of mindfulness meditation. These constructs appear to be related to subcortical, prefrontal, and posterior brain areas involved in emotional processing, cognitive control, self-awareness, and mind wandering. However, no studies have yet discerned the neural basis of dispositional mindfulness that are minimally associated with emotion regulation. In the present study, we use a novel brain structural network analysis approach to study the relationship between structural networks and dispositional mindfulness, measured with two different and widely used instruments [Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) and Five Facet Mindfulness

SUBMITTER: Baltruschat S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8046916 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature