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Front Aging Neurosci. 2021 Aug 27;13:702796. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2021.702796. eCollection 2021.

Mindfulness Training Improves Cognition and Strengthens Intrinsic Connectivity Between the Hippocampus and Posteromedial Cortex in Healthy Older Adults.

Frontiers in aging neuroscience

Gunes Sevinc, Johann Rusche, Bonnie Wong, Tanya Datta, Robert Kaufman, Sarah E Gutz, Marissa Schneider, Nevyana Todorova, Christian Gaser, Götz Thomalla, Dorene Rentz, Bradford D Dickerson, Sara W Lazar

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
  2. Kopf- und Neurozentrum, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
  3. Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
  4. Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
  5. Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, College of Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States.
  6. Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
  7. Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.

PMID: 34512305 PMCID: PMC8430251 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2021.702796

Abstract

Maintaining optimal cognitive functioning throughout the lifespan is a public health priority. Evaluation of cognitive outcomes following interventions to promote and preserve brain structure and function in older adults, and associated neural mechanisms, are therefore of critical importance. In this randomized controlled trial, we examined the behavioral and neural outcomes following mindfulness training (

Copyright © 2021 Sevinc, Rusche, Wong, Datta, Kaufman, Gutz, Schneider, Todorova, Gaser, Thomalla, Rentz, Dickerson and Lazar.

Keywords: aging; cognitive composite; intervention; mindfulness; resting state – fMRI

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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