Regulation of the neural circuitry of emotion by compassion meditation: effects of meditative expertise.

Recent brain imaging studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have implicated insula and anterior cingulate cortices in the empathic response to another's pain. However, virtually nothing is known about the impact of the voluntary generation of compassion on this network. To i...

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Main Authors: Antoine Lutz, Julie Brefczynski-Lewis, Tom Johnstone, Richard J Davidson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2267490?pdf=render