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ArticleScientific reports2019

Mindfulness video game improves connectivity of the fronto-parietal attentional network in adolescents: A multi-modal imaging study.

Elena G Patsenko, Nagesh Adluru, Rasmus M Birn, Diane E Stodola, Tammi R A Kral, Reza Farajian, Lisa Flook, Cory A Burghy, Constance Steinkuehler, Richard J Davidson

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Elena G PatsenkoCenter for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 625W. Washington Avenue, Madison, WI, 53703, USA. patsenka@wisc.edu.
Nagesh AdluruCenter for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 625W. Washington Avenue, Madison, WI, 53703, USA.
Rasmus M BirnDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 6001 Research Park Blvd., Madison, WI, 53719, USA.
Diane E StodolaCenter for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 625W. Washington Avenue, Madison, WI, 53703, USA.
Tammi R A KralCenter for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 625W. Washington Avenue, Madison, WI, 53703, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0999-1424
Reza FarajianCenter for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 625W. Washington Avenue, Madison, WI, 53703, USA.
Lisa FlookCenter for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 625W. Washington Avenue, Madison, WI, 53703, USA.
Cory A BurghyCenter for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 625W. Washington Avenue, Madison, WI, 53703, USA.
Constance SteinkuehlerDepartment of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, 5019 Donald Bren Hall, Irvine, CA, 92697-3440, USA.
Richard J DavidsonCenter for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 625W. Washington Avenue, Madison, WI, 53703, USA.

Funding

WISCONSIN CENTER ON MENTAL RETARDATION: CORE SUPPORTP30HD003352 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MESSING, ALBEE · 1985 to 2015
$25.2M
TRAINING PROGRAM IN EMOTION RESEARCHT32MH018931 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Richard J Davidson · 1989 to 2026
$11.6M
Waisman Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center Down Syndrome RegistryU54HD090256 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI POLLAK, SETH D · 2016 to 2020
$6.0M
NICHD NIH HHS P30 HD003352NICHD NIH HHS U54 HD090256NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH018931
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mindfulness training has been shown to improve attention and change the underlying brain substrates in adults. Most mindfulness training programs involve a myriad of techniques, and it is difficult to attribute changes to any particular aspect of the program. Here, we created a video game, Tenacity, which models a specific mindfulness technique - focused attention on one's breathing - and assessed its potential to train an attentional network in adolescents. A combined analysis of resting state functional connectivity (rs-FC) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) yielded convergent results - change in communication within the left fronto-parietal network after two weeks of playing Tenacity compared to a control game. Rs-FC analysis showed greater connectivity between left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and left inferior parietal cortex (IPC) in the Tenacity group. Importantly, changes in left dlPFC - IPC rs-FC and changes in structural connectivity of the white matter tract that connects these regions -left superior longitudinal fasiculus (SLF) - were associated with changes in performance on an attention task. Finally, changes in left dlPFC - IPC rs-FC correlated with the change in left SLF structural connectivity as measured by fractional anisotropy (FA) in the Tenacity group only.

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EmotionsMindfulnessVideo GamesAdolescentAnisotropyAttentionChildDiffusion Tensor ImagingFemaleFrontal LobeHumansMaleMultimodal ImagingParietal LobeWhite Matter

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PMID31822684
PMCPMC6904443

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