ArticleFrontiers in psychology2014
Mechanisms of white matter change induced by meditation training.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Loving-Kindness Meditation: Systematic Review of Neuroimaging Correlates in Long-Term Practitioners and Clinical Implications.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- The Utility of Meditation and Mindfulness-Based Interventions in the Time of COVID-19: A Theoretical Proposition and Systematic Review of the Relevant Prison, Quarantine and Lockdown Literature.Psychological reports · 2023Pooled it
- Frequent loving kindness meditation relates to lower anxiety in long term practitioners through higher self compassion and cognitive flexibility.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Gray and White Matter Networks Predict Mindfulness and Mind Wandering Traits: A Data Fusion Machine Learning Approach.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Determining the feasibility and acceptability of a randomized telehealth pilot study for veterans with chronic multisymptom illness.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2025Article
- Consciousness, mindfulness, and introspection: integrating first- and second-person phenomenological inquiry with experimental and EEG data to study the mind.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- From Infancy to Childhood: A Comprehensive Review of Event- and Task-Related Brain Oscillations.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Enhanced amygdala-anterior cingulate white matter structural connectivity in Sahaja Yoga Meditators.PloS one · 2024Article
- Meditation-induced effects on whole-brain structural and effective connectivity.Brain structure & function · 2022Article
- Mindfulness-Enhanced Computerized Cognitive Training for Depression: An Integrative Review and Proposed Model Targeting the Cognitive Control and Default-Mode Networks.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Mining the Mind: Linear Discriminant Analysis of MEG Source Reconstruction Time Series Supports Dynamic Changes in Deep Brain Regions During Meditation Sessions.Brain topography · 2021Article
- Increasing the amplitude of intrinsic theta in the human brain.AIMS neuroscience · 2020Article
- From Evaluation to Prediction: Behavioral Effects and Biological Markers of Cognitive Control Intervention.Neural plasticity · 2020Review
- Frontal theta activity and white matter plasticity following mindfulness meditation.Current opinion in psychology · 2019Review
- Illuminating the Neural Circuits Underlying Orienting of Attention.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Possible Effect of Binaural Beat Combined With Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response for Inducing Sleep.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Changes in white matter in mice resulting from low-frequency brain stimulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Temperament and brain networks of attention.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- All Wrapped Up: Environmental Effects on Myelination.Trends in neurosciences · 2017Review
- Methylation polymorphism influences practice effects in children during attention tasks.Cognitive neuroscience · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Training can induce changes in specific brain networks and changes in brain state. In both cases it has been found that the efficiency of white matter as measured by diffusion tensor imaging is increased, often after only a few hours of training. In this paper we consider a plausible molecular mechanism for how state change produced by meditation might lead to white matter change. According to this hypothesis frontal theta induced by meditation produces a molecular cascade that increases myelin and improves connectivity.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.