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Dispositional mindfulness and depressive symptomatology: Correlations with limbic and self-referential neural activity during rest

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Way, Baldwin M., Creswell, J. David, Eisenberger, Naomi I., Lieberman, Matthew D.·2010·Emotion

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To better understand the relationship between mindfulness and depression, we studied normal young adults (n = 27) who completed measures of dispositional mindfulness and depressive symptomatology, which were then correlated with (a) rest: resting neural activity during passive viewing of a fixation cross, relative to a simple goal-directed task (shape-matching); and (b) reactivity: neural reactivity during viewing of negative emotional faces, relative to the same shape-matching task. Dispositional mindfulness was negatively correlated with resting activity in self-referential processing areas, whereas depressive symptomatology was positively correlated with resting activity in similar areas. In addition, dispositional mindfulness was negatively correlated with resting activity in the amygdala, bilaterally, whereas depressive symptomatology was positively correlated with activity in the right amygdala. Similarly, when viewing emotional faces, amygdala reactivity was positively correlated with depressive symptomatology and negatively correlated with dispositional mindfulness, an effect that was largely attributable to differences in resting activity. These findings indicate that mindfulness is associated with intrinsic neural activity and that changes in resting amygdala activity could be a potential mechanism by which mindfulness-based depression treatments elicit therapeutic improvement.

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Authors
Way, B. M., Creswell, J. D., Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • Carnegie Mellon University (US)
Venue
Emotion
Published
2010
Volume
10
Issue
1
Pages
12-24
ISSN
  • 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
  • 1931-1516
OpenAlex
W2153885258
Cited by
211
References
68
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FWCI
20.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Emotion (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • National Institutes of Health (AG030309; R21MH07152)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
Keywords
trait mindfulness, depressive symptoms, resting-state brain activity, amygdala reactivity, self-referential processing, emotional face processing, intrinsic brain activity, limbic system
MeSH terms
Affect, Amygdala, Anxiety, Attention, Brain, Depression, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Limbic System, Male, Mental Processes, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Rest, Sex Factors, Temporal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex, Young Adult

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