ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2021
Resting State Functional Connectivity Associated With Sahaja Yoga Meditation.
Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- How yoga shapes the brain: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of yoga on impulsivity in patients with and without mental disorders: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Combined Yoga and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Increase Functional Connectivity and Synchronization in the Frontal Areas.Brain topography · 2022Trial
- Interconnections and global transitions among functional states encode activity-related dynamics as brain topology changes after yoga training.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Striatal functional connectivity associated with Sahaja Yoga meditation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Neural correlates of reduction in self-judgment after mindful self-compassion training: A pilot study with resting state fMRI.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2025Article
- Neural correlates of breath work, mental imagery of yoga postures, and meditation in yoga practitioners: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Enhanced amygdala-anterior cingulate white matter structural connectivity in Sahaja Yoga Meditators.PloS one · 2024Article
- Neuroimaging evaluation of the long term impact of a novel paired meditation practice on brain function.Frontiers in neuroimaging · 2024Article
- Beyond the veil of duality-topographic reorganization model of meditation.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2022Review
- Insights and Future Directions on the Combined Effects of Mind-Body Therapies with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: An Evidence-based Review.The journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation MedicineArticle
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Abstract
Neuroscience research has shown that meditation practices have effects on brain structure and function. However, few studies have combined information on the effects on structure and function in the same sample. Long-term daily meditation practice produces repeated activity of specific brain networks over years of practice, which may induce lasting structural and functional connectivity (FC) changes within relevant circuits. The aim of our study was therefore to identify differences in FC during the resting state between 23 Sahaja Yoga Meditation experts and 23 healthy participants without meditation experience. Seed-based FC analysis was performed departing from voxels that had shown structural differences between these same participants. The contrast of connectivity maps yielded that meditators showed increased FC between the left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex but reduced FC between the left insula and the bilateral mid-cingulate as well as between the right angular gyrus and the bilateral precuneus/cuneus cortices. It thus appears that long-term meditation practice increases direct FC between ventral and dorsal frontal regions within brain networks related to attention and cognitive control and decreases FC between regions of these networks and areas of the default mode network.
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