Impact of mindfulness-based stress reduction training on intrinsic brain connectivity
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The beneficial effects of mindful awareness and mindfulness meditation training on physical and psychological health are thought to be mediated in part through changes in underlying brain processes. Functional connectivity MRI (fcMRI) allows identification of functional networks in the brain. It has been used to examine state-dependent activity and is well suited for studying states such as meditation. We applied fcMRI to determine if Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) training is effective in altering intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs). Healthy women were randomly assigned to participate in an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) training course or an 8-week waiting period. After 8 weeks, fMRI data (1.5T) was acquired while subjects rested with eyes closed, with the instruction to pay attention to the sounds of the scanner environment. Group independent component analysis was performed to investigate training-related changes in functional connectivity. Significant MBSR-related differences in functional connectivity were found mainly in auditory/salience and medial visual networks. Relative to findings in the control group, MBSR subjects showed (1) increased functional connectivity within auditory and visual networks, (2) increased functional connectivity between auditory cortex and areas associated with attentional and self-referential processes, (3) stronger anticorrelation between auditory and visual cortex, and (4) stronger anticorrelation between visual cortex and areas associated with attentional and self-referential processes. These findings suggest that 8 weeks of mindfulness meditation training alters intrinsic functional connectivity in ways that may reflect a more consistent attentional focus, enhanced sensory processing, and reflective awareness of sensory experience.
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Mindfulness training is associated with improved brain connectivity.
“Neuroscientific studies identified that mindfulness training was associated with improved brain connectivity (Kilpatrick et al., 2011) and activity in structures related to emotion regulation (Holzel et al., 2011).”
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The Abstract reports that eight weeks of mindfulness-based stress reduction changed functional connectivity in healthy women, including increased connectivity within auditory and visual networks. It describes these changes as potentially reflecting enhanced sensory processing, but does not establish that brain connectivity was improved overall. (LLM, conf=0.83)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredFunctional connectivity studies indicate increased connectivity between anterior and posterior default mode network nodes at rest and during meditation in experienced meditators with 10,000 h of practice but not following 8 weeks of training.
“Functional connectivity studies of meditation have indicated increased connectivity between anterior and posterior nodes of the DMN at rest123,124 and during meditation125,126 in experienced meditators with 10,000 h of practice but not following 8 weeks of training,127”
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- Authors
- Kilpatrick, L. A., Suyenobu, B. Y., Smith, S. R., Bueller, J. A., Goodman, T., Creswell, J. D., Tillisch, K., Mayer, E. A., & Naliboff, B. D.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kilpatrick, Lisa A.
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-05
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 290-298
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3072791
- OpenAlex
- W2006130983
- Cited by
- 355
- References
- 64
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 27 · 2015: 31 · 2014: 34 · 2013: 28 · 2012: 22
- FWCI
- 14.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (AT 00268, DK64531)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
- Keywords
- mindfulness-based stress reduction, intrinsic brain connectivity, functional connectivity, auditory cortex, visual cortex, salience network, anticorrelation, attention, self-referential processing, resting-state networks
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Middle Aged, Neural Pathways, Stress, Psychological, Meditation, Young Adult
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