Neuroplasticity within and between Functional Brain Networks in Mental Training Based on Long-Term Meditation.

ABSTRACT: (1) The effects of intensive mental training based on meditation on the functional and structural organization of the human brain have been addressed by several neuroscientific studies. However, how large-scale connectivity patterns are affected by long-term practice of the main forms of meditation, Focused Attention (FA) and Open Monitoring (OM), as well as by aging, has not yet been elucidated. (2) Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and multivariate pattern analysis, we investigated the impact of meditation expertise and age on functional connectivity patterns in large-scale brain networks during different meditation styles in long-term meditators. (3) The results show that fMRI connectivity patterns in multiple key brain networks can differentially predict the meditation

SUBMITTER: Guidotti R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8393942 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature