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Neural Correlates of Self

NCT03206840 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2025-11-21

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Summary

Despite the increasing popularity of mindfulness meditation and hypnosis in healthcare and in the general community the underlying neurobiological mechanisms are unclear. The change in the relationship between the self and the conscious experience that they bring about may be crucial. This study aims to identify the neural correlates of self-consciousness in meta-awareness and absorption - using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) in healthy participants combined with detailed first-person experiential accounts and behavioural tasks. This study will provide important clues about the widely reported effects of mindfulness meditation and hypnosis and shed light on the neural correlates of the conscious experience of self.

Conditions

  • Healthy Volunteers

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

"control", "meditation", "hypnosis".

three instructions will be given to each participant: "control", "meditation", "hypnosis". The order of "meditation" and "hypnosis" will be randomized amongst two groups to avoid order effects.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospices Civils de Lyon

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Antoine LUTZ, PhD · Lyon Neuroscience Research Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-10-26
Primary Completion
2018-11-12
Completion
2018-11-12

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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