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Personal reflection triggers increased brain activity during depressive episode

By Guest PostNovember 17, 2013Healthanxiety, brain imaging technology, british queen, depression, depressive episode, fmri, frontal cortex, increased brain activity, laura parkes, may sarsam, neuroimaging, personal reflection, peter kinderman, psychological theory, university of liverpool, university of manchester

Research by the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester has found that people experiencing depressive episodes display increased brain activity when they think about themselves.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain imaging technologies, scientists found that people experiencing a depressive episode process information about themselves in the brain differently to people who are not depressed.

Researchers scanned the brains of people in major depressive episodes and those that weren’t whilst they chose positive, negative and neutral adjectives to describe either themselves or the British Queen – a figure significantly removed from their daily lives but one that all participants were familiar with. (more…)

Poetry is like music to the mind, scientists prove

By Guest PostOctober 9, 2013Culture, Health, Scienceadam zeman, anatomical sense, art, brain imaging technology, favourite poetry, fmri technology, introspection, music to mind, poetry, prose, recollection, scientist, university of exeter

New brain imaging technology is helping researchers to bridge the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose.

Scientists at the University of Exeter used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, which allows them to visualise which parts of the brain are activated to process various activities.

No one had previously looked specifically at the differing responses in the brain to poetry and prose. (more…)

A Neural Basis for Benefits of Meditation

By Guest PostFebruary 28, 2013Healthalpha rhythms, alpha theory, alpha wave amplitude, benefits of meditation, body, brain imaging technology, brain process, breath sensations, brown university, brown university scientists, catherine kerr, christopher moore, chronic pain, chronic pain signals, computer simulation, cortex, cortical alpha rhythms, depression, depressive cognitions, electrical activity, emotional benefits, filters sensations, localized alpha brainwaves, localized alpha rhythms, magnetoencephalography, mapped by brain, massachusetts general hospital, matthew sacchet, meg, mind and body, mindfulness meditation training, model, modulate alpha, negative physical sensations, negative thoughts, neural basis, neural networks, primary somatosensory cortex, professor of neuroscience, reduces distress, regions of thalamus, sara lazar, sensory, somatosensory alpha rhythms, stanford university, stephanie jones, thalamic nuclei, volume knob

Mindfulness meditation training in awareness of present moment experience, such as body and breath sensations, prevents depression and reduces distress in chronic pain. In a new paper, Brown University scientists propose a neurophysiological framework to explain these clinical benefits.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Why does training in mindfulness meditation help patients manage chronic pain and depression? In a newly published neurophysiological review, Brown University scientists propose that mindfulness practitioners gain enhanced control over sensory cortical alpha rhythms that help regulate how the brain processes and filters sensations, including pain, and memories such as depressive cognitions. (more…)

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Personal reflection triggers increased brain activity during depressive episode

Poetry is like music to the mind, scientists prove

A Neural Basis for Benefits of Meditation