Imaging Cerebral and Sub-cerebral Correlates of Meditative States

Completed

Conditions studied: Stress

In brief

Three groups of subjects are trained to practice mindfulness meditation, compassion meditation, or attend a health training control class. Individuals from each group will undergo structural and functional brain imaging before and after training. The hypothesis is that the compassion meditation group will show the largest changes in brain structure and function. In a second series of experiments, the subjects practicing a Tibetan meditation practice will be undergo MRI thermometry imaging to construct detailed three dimensional temperature maps of their bodies before, during, and after they perform this practice.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01262404

Run by

Boston University Charles River Campus

People needed

58

Starts

2010-01-01

Expected to finish

2011-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-07-29

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 18-65 for the mindfulness-compassion study
• Prior training in gtummo meditation for the gtummo study

You may not qualify if…

• Previous experience with meditation for the mindfulness-compassion study

Where it is running

• Boston University Dept. of Cognitive and Neural Systems — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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