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ArticleFrontiers in integrative neuroscience2012

Neurocognitive correlates of the effects of yoga meditation practice on emotion and cognition: a pilot study.

Brett E Froeliger, Eric L Garland, Leslie A Modlin, F Joseph McClernon

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Article in Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04414371 (Tools for Wellbeing COVID-19 National Study of Undergraduate Students), which is not on this map. Cited by 59 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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NCT04414371 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

Tools for Wellbeing COVID-19 National Study of Undergraduate Students

TypeinterventionalSponsorRutgers, The State University of New JerseyRan2020 to 2020Enrolled200ConditionsStress, Anxiety, Depression, ResilienceArmsYoga
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Brett E FroeligerDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC, USA.
Eric L Garland
Leslie A Modlin
F Joseph McClernon
Duke University Hospital · USDuke Medical Center · USFlorida State University · US

Funding

Neuropharmacology of Emotion-Cognition Interaction in Nicotine DependenceR03DA026536 · NIDA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI FROELIGER, BRETT · 2009 to 2009
$234k
Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement For Chronic Pain Patients Receiving OpiR03DA032517 · NIDA · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI GARLAND, ERIC LEE · 2011 to 2012
$74k
NIDA NIH HHS R03 DA026536NIDA NIH HHS R03 DA032517
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mindfulness meditation involves attending to emotions without cognitive fixation of emotional experience. Over time, this practice is held to promote alterations in trait affectivity and attentional control with resultant effects on well-being and cognition. However, relatively little is known regarding the neural substrates of meditation effects on emotion and cognition. The present study investigated the neurocognitive correlates of emotion interference on cognition in Yoga practitioners and a matched control group (CG) underwent fMRI while performing an event-related affective Stroop task. The task includes image viewing trials and Stroop trials bracketed by neutral or negative emotional distractors. During image viewing trials, Yoga practitioners exhibited less reactivity in right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) to negative as compared to neutral images; whereas the CG had the opposite pattern. A main effect of valence (negative > neutral) was observed in limbic regions (e.g., amygdala), of which the magnitude was inversely related to dlPFC activation. Exploratory analyses revealed that the magnitude of amygdala activation predicted decreased self-reported positive affect in the CG, but not among Yoga practitioners. During Stroop trials, Yoga practitioners had greater activation in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) during Stroop trials when negative, compared to neutral, emotional distractor were presented; the CG exhibited the opposite pattern. Taken together, these data suggest that though Yoga practitioners exhibit limbic reactivity to negative emotional stimuli, such reactivity does not have downstream effects on later mood state. This uncoupling of viewing negative emotional images and affect among Yoga practitioners may be occasioned by their selective implementation of frontal executive-dependent strategies to reduce emotional interference during competing cognitive demands and not during emotional processing per se.

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emotion-cognitionfMRImindfulness

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PMID22855674
PMCPMC3405281
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