Mindfulness in the focus of the neurosciences - The contribution of neuroimaging to the understanding of mindfulness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mindfulness affects human levels of experience by facilitating the immediate and impartial perception of phenomena, including sensory stimulation, emotions, and thoughts. Mindfulness is now a focus of neuroimaging, since technical and methodological developments in magnetic resonance imaging have made it possible to observe subjects performing mindfulness tasks.

Objective

We set out to describe the association between mental processes and characteristics of mindfulness, including their specific cerebral patterns, as shown in structural and functional neuroimaging studies.

Methods

We searched the MEDLINE databank of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics via PubMed using the keywords: "mindfulness," "focused attention (FA)," "

SUBMITTER: Weder BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9622333 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature