Meditation training modulates brain electric microstates and felt states of awareness.

ABSTRACT: Meditation practice is believed to foster states of mindful awareness and mental quiescence in everyday life. If so, then the cultivation of these qualities with training ought to leave its imprint on the activity of intrinsic functional brain networks. In an intensive longitudinal study, we investigated associations between meditation practitioners' experiences of felt mindful awareness and changes in the spontaneous electrophysiological dynamics of functional brain networks. Experienced meditators were randomly assigned to complete 3 months of full-time training in focused-attention meditation (during an initial intervention) or to serve as waiting-list controls and receive training second (during a later intervention). We collected broadband electroencephalogram (EEG) during rest at the

SUBMITTER: Zanesco AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8193519 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature