ArticleBrain and behavior2019
Short-term Sahaja Yoga meditation training modulates brain structure and spontaneous activity in the executive control network.
Article in Brain and behavior, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04295954 (Effect of a Semi-Presence Yoga Program, With Virtual Tutorized Home Tracking, on Dysmenorrhea in University Students), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effect of a Semi-Presence Yoga Program, With Virtual Tutorized Home Tracking, on Dysmenorrhea in University Students: Randomized an Controlled Clinical Trial Protocol.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Regular Doses of Nature: The Efficacy of Green Exercise Interventions for Mental Wellbeing.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
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- Enhanced amygdala-anterior cingulate white matter structural connectivity in Sahaja Yoga Meditators.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Differences in Emotional Conflict Processing between High and Low Mindfulness Adolescents: An ERP Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Beyond the veil of duality-topographic reorganization model of meditation.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2022Review
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- Twelve-Week Yoga vs. Aerobic Cycling Initiation in Sedentary Healthy Subjects: A Behavioral and Multiparametric Interventional PET/MR Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Short-term meditation training influences brain energy metabolism: A pilot study onBrain and behavior · 2021Article
- Resting State Functional Connectivity Associated With Sahaja Yoga Meditation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Brain Energy Metabolism in Two States of Mind Measured by Phosphorous Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- The Effect of Yoga Meditation Practice on Young Adults' Inhibitory Control: An fNIRS Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Advanced Meditation Alters Resting-State Brain Network Connectivity Correlating With Improved Mindfulness.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Larger whole brain grey matter associated with long-term Sahaja Yoga Meditation: A detailed area by area comparison.PloS one · 2020Article
- What Has Neuroimaging Taught Us on the Neurobiology of Yoga? A Review.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2020Review
- Short-term Sahaja Yoga meditation training modulates brain structure and spontaneous activity in the executive control network.Brain and behavior · 2019Article
- Functional Connectivity of Prefrontal Cortex in Various Meditation Techniques - A Mini-Review.International journal of yogaReview
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Abstract
introductionWhile cross-sectional studies have shown neural changes in long-term meditators, they might be confounded by self-selection and potential baseline differences between meditators and non meditators. Prospective longitudinal studies of the effects of meditation in naïve subjects are more conclusive with respect to causal inferences, but related evidence is so far limited.
methodsHere, we assessed the effects of a 4-week Sahaja Yoga meditation training on gray matter density and spontaneous resting-state brain activity in a group of 12 meditation-naïve healthy adults.
resultsCompared with 30 control subjects, the participants to meditation training showed increased gray matter density and changes in the coherence of intrinsic brain activity in two adjacent regions of the right inferior frontal gyrus encompassing the anterior component of the executive control network. Both these measures correlated with self-reported well-being scores in the meditation group.
conclusionsThe significant impact of a brief meditation training on brain regions associated with attention, self-control, and self-awareness may reflect the engagement of cognitive control skills in searching for a state of mental silence, a distinctive feature of Sahaja Yoga meditation. The manifold implications of these findings involve both managerial and rehabilitative settings concerned with well-being and emotional state in normal and pathological conditions.
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