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SUBMITTER: Lutz J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4040090 | biostudies-other | 2014 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lutz Jacqueline J Herwig Uwe U Opialla Sarah S Hittmeyer Anna A Jäncke Lutz L Rufer Michael M Grosse Holtforth Martin M Brühl Annette B AB
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20130405 6
Mindfulness--an attentive non-judgmental focus on present experiences--is increasingly incorporated in psychotherapeutic treatments as a skill fostering emotion regulation. Neurobiological mechanisms of actively induced emotion regulation are associated with prefrontally mediated down-regulation of, for instance, the amygdala. We were interested in neurobiological correlates of a short mindfulness instruction during emotional arousal. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated ...[more]