Differential engagement of anterior cingulate and adjacent medial frontal cortex in adept meditators and non-meditators

被引：353

作者：

Hoelzel, Britta K. ^{[1
]}

Ott, Ulrich ^{[1
]}

Hempel, Hannes ^{[1
]}

Hackl, Andrea ^{[1
]}

Wolf, Katharina ^{[1
]}

Stark, Rudolf ^{[1
]}

Vaitl, Dieter ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Giessen, Bender Inst Neuroimaging, D-35394 Giessen, Germany

来源：

NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS | 2007年 / 421卷 / 01期

关键词：

meditation; mindfulness; anterior cingulate cortex; medial prefrontal cortex; emotion regulation; attention regulation;

D O I：

10.1016/j.neulet.2007.04.074

中图分类号：

Q189 [神经科学];

学科分类号：

071006 ;

摘要：

This study investigated differences in brain activation during meditation between meditators and non-meditators. Fifteen Vipassana meditators (mean practice: 7.9 years, 2 h daily) and fifteen non-meditators, matched for sex, age, education, and handedness, participated in a block-design fMRI study that included mindfulness of breathing and mental arithmetic conditions. For the meditation condition (contrasted to arithmetic), meditators showed stronger activations in the rostral anterior cingulate cortex and the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex bilaterally, compared to controls. Greater rostral anterior cingulate cortex activation in meditators may reflect stronger processing of distracting events. The increased activation in the medial prefrontal cortex may reflect that meditators are stronger engaged in emotional processing. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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