mindfulness-practice-leads-to-increases_holzel-britta-k-et-al.md

title	authors	external_url	source_url	drive_links	course	tags	year	month	journal	volume	number	pages	publisher	openalexid
Mindfulness Practice Leads to Increases in Regional Brain Gray Matter Density	Britta K. Hölzel James Carmody Mark Vangel Christina Congleton Sita M. Yerramsetti and others	https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3004979?pdf=render	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.08.006	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d2galqil2Cyhzf1EcG0E9WBcy83PqvLs/view?usp=drivesdk	meditation	neuroscience health	2011	jan	Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging	191	1	36--43	Elsevier BV	W2111936080

Changes in gray matter concentration were investigated using voxel-based morphometry, and compared with a waiting list control group of 17 individuals. Analyses in a priori regions of interest confirmed increases in gray matter concentration within the left hippocampus. Whole brain analyses identified increases in the posterior cingulate cortex, the temporo-parietal junction, and the cerebellum in the MBSR group compared with the controls. The results suggest that participation in MBSR is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perspective taking.