The Neuroscience of Meditation: Understanding Individual Differences explores the individual differences in learning and practicing meditation, while also providing insights on how to learn and practice effectively. The book comprehensively covers the research in brain areas and networks that mediate the positive effects of meditation upon physical and mental health. Though it examines how people differ in how they learn and practice meditation, it underscores how underlying mechanisms differ in learning and practicing meditation and how they remain unclear to researchers. This book addresses the research gap and explores the brain science behind meditation.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. iii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Preface - p. ix 6. Chapter 1. Theoretical frameworks of individual differences in interventions - p. 1 7. Chapter 2. Personality and meditation - p. 15 8. Chapter 3. Cultural differences in meditation - p. 37 9. Chapter 4. Genetic association with meditation learning and practice (outcomes) - p. 65 10. Chapter 5. Sympathetic and parasympathetic systems in meditation - p. 85 11. Chapter 6. Brain regions and networks in meditation - p. 109 12. Chapter 7. Meditation over the lifespan - p. 139 13. Chapter 8. How to measure outcomes and individual differences in meditation - p. 161 14. Chapter 9. Personalized meditation - p. 177 15. Chapter 10. Critical questions and future directions in meditation - p. 191 16. Index - p. 211
The Neuroscience of Meditation: Understanding Individual Differences explores the individual differences in learning and practicing meditation, while also providing insights on how to learn and practice effectively. The book comprehensively covers the research in brain areas and networks that mediate the positive effects of meditation upon physical and mental health. Though it examines how people differ in how they learn and practice meditation, it underscores how underlying mechanisms differ in learning and practicing meditation and how they remain unclear to researchers. This book addresses the research gap and explores the brain science behind meditation.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. iii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Preface - p. ix 6. Chapter 1. Theoretical frameworks of individual differences in interventions - p. 1 7. Chapter 2. Personality and meditation - p. 15 8. Chapter 3. Cultural differences in meditation - p. 37 9. Chapter 4. Genetic association with meditation learning and practice (outcomes) - p. 65 10. Chapter 5. Sympathetic and parasympathetic systems in meditation - p. 85 11. Chapter 6. Brain regions and networks in meditation - p. 109 12. Chapter 7. Meditation over the lifespan - p. 139 13. Chapter 8. How to measure outcomes and individual differences in meditation - p. 161 14. Chapter 9. Personalized meditation - p. 177 15. Chapter 10. Critical questions and future directions in meditation - p. 191 16. Index - p. 211
