Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness

NeuroReport - Tập 16 Số 17 - Trang 1893-1897 - 2005
Sara W. Lazar1,2, Catherine E. Kerr3, Rachel H. Wasserman3,1, Jeremy R. Gray4, Douglas N. Greve5, Michael T. Treadway1, Metta McGarvey6, Brian T. Quinn5, Jeffery A. Dusek7,8, Herbert Benson7,8, Scott L. Rauch1, Christopher I. Moore9,10, Bruce Fischl5,11
1Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
2requests for reprints to Sara W. Lazar, PhD, Room 2609, 149 13th St. Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
3Osher Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
4Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
5Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
6Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge
7Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston
8Mind/Body Medical Institute, Chestnut Hill
9Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10McGovern Institute for Brain Research and
11Computer Science and AI Lab (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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