Article Information
- Received June 17, 2012
- Revision received September 7, 2012
- Accepted September 13, 2012
- First published October 31, 2012.
- Version of record published October 31, 2012.
Author Information
- Micah Allen1,
- Martin Dietz1,
- Karina S. Blair2,
- Martijn van Beek3,
- Geraint Rees4,
- Peter Vestergaard-Poulsen1,
- Antoine Lutz5,6, and
- Andreas Roepstorff1,3
- 1MINDLab, Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark, and
- 2Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2670,
- 3Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark,
- 4Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, United Kingdom,
- 5Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705-2280, and
- 6Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France
Author contributions
Author contributions: M.A., M.v.B., P.V.-P., A.L., and A.R. designed research; M.A. performed research; M.A., M.D., and K.S.B. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; M.A., M.D., and A.L. analyzed data; M.A., G.R., A.L., and A.R. wrote the paper.
Disclosures
- Received June 17, 2012.
- Revision received September 7, 2012.
- Accepted September 13, 2012.
This work was supported by a grant from ViFAB (Knowledge and Research Center for Alternative Medicine), Ministry of Health, Denmark, project “Mechanisms of mindfulness training,” by grants from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (P01-AT004952) and the Adam J. Weissman Foundation (A.L.), by the Velux Foundation (Technologies of the Mind; A.R., M.v.B.), and by a grant from the Wellcome Trust (082334; G.R.). The authors acknowledge the support of the MINDlab Investment Capital for University Research fund. We thank Torben Lund, Christian Gaden Jensen, Ryota Kanai, Chris Frith, and Uta Frith for helpful discussions on the design, analysis, and manuscript. We also thank Mette Steenberg, Karsten Skipper, and Hannah Jakobsen for running the reading and meditation courses. We are deeply grateful to our contemplative collaborators, Jes Bertelsen and Michael Stubberup, whose guidance on the content and aims of meditation training informed this research.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Micah Allen, Centre for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University Hospital, Nørrebrogade 44, Building 10G, 5th Floor, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. micah{at}cfin.dk
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