June 2018 PMID 28393652

Meditation-induced neuroplastic changes in amygdala activity during negative affective processing.

Mei-Kei Leung, Way K W Lau, Chetwyn C H Chan, Samuel S Y Wong, Annis L C Fung, Tatia M C Lee

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Abstract in brief

  • Meditation training, specifically awareness-based compassion meditation (ABCM), can lead to neuroplastic changes in the amygdala, reducing its activity during negative emotional processing.
  • Participants who practiced more compassion meditation showed greater reductions in right amygdala activity and anxiety, indicating a potential link between meditation intensity and emotional resilience.
  • These changes occur even when participants are not meditating, suggesting that meditation’s effects on reducing emotional reactivity can carry over into everyday, nonmeditative states, which has positive implications for stress management.

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@CharacterGap https://t.co/P0A9iX5bs7 I’m not an academic, just an acupuncturist interested in neuroplasticity and philosophy. That Philosophy Bites podcast felt like the two together

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