Intrinsic correlations between Salience, Primary Sensory, and Default Mode...
Going through my RSS backlog today, I was excited to see Kilpatrick et al.’s “Impact of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Training on Intrinsic Brain Connectivity” appear in this week’s early view...
View ArticleNew Meditation Study in Neuroimage: “Meditation training increases brain...
Just a quick post to give my review of the latest addition to imaging and mindfulness research. A new article by Kozasa et al, slated to appear in Neuroimage, investigates the neural correlates of...
View ArticleA brave new default mode in meditation practitioners- or just confused...
Given that my own work focuses on cognitive control, intrinsic connectivity, and mental-training (e.g. meditation) I was pretty excited to see Brewer et al’s paper on just these topics appear in PNAS...
View ArticleTeaser from my upcoming submission – Changes of cognitive-affective neural...
As I’ve been dreadfully quiet in the weeks leading up to the submission of my first fMRI paper, I thought I’d give my readers a little tidbit teaser of my (hopefully) forthcoming article. We’re within...
View ArticleActive-controlled, brief body-scan meditation improves somatic signal...
Here in the science blog-o-sphere we often like to run to the presses whenever a laughably bad study comes along, pointing out all the incredible feats of ignorance and sloth. However, this can lead to...
View ArticleCan compassion be trained like a muscle? Active-controlled fMRI of compassion...
Among the cognitive training literature, meditation interventions are particularly unique in that they often emphasize emotional or affective processing at least as much as classical ‘top-down’...
View ArticleA brave new default mode in meditation practitioners- or just confused...
Given that my own work focuses on cognitive control, intrinsic connectivity, and mental-training (e.g. meditation) I was pretty excited to see Brewer et al’s paper on just these topics appear in PNAS...
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