October 2012 PMID 22287947

Influence of meditation on anti-correlated networks in the brain.

Zoran Josipovic, Ilan Dinstein, Jochen Weber, David J Heeger

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This study explores how meditation influences the brain's two main systems: one that responds to outside stimuli (extrinsic) and one that is more internal or self-related (intrinsic), which usually tend to oppose each other in activity.
Researchers tested whether different meditation techniques, like nondual awareness (NDA) and focused attention (FA), could alter the level of competition (anticorrelation) between these systems, finding that FA meditation increased their anticorrelation while NDA decreased it.
The findings show that this opposition between brain systems isn’t fixed but can be changed through mental strategies like meditation, highlighting that different meditative practices can lead to distinct changes in how our brain's internal and external focus systems interact.]

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