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SUBMITTER: Farb NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5017873 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Farb Norman A S NA Anderson Adam K AK Mayberg Helen H Bean Jim J McKeon Deborah D Segal Zindel V ZV
Emotion (Washington, D.C.) 20100201 1
Recovery from emotional challenge and increased tolerance of negative affect are both hallmarks of mental health. Mindfulness training (MT) has been shown to facilitate these outcomes, yet little is known about its mechanisms of action. The present study employed functional MRI (fMRI) to compare neural reactivity to sadness provocation in participants completing 8 weeks of MT and waitlisted controls. Sadness resulted in widespread recruitment of regions associated with self-referential processes ...[more]