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Evaluating Multivariate MRI Maps of Body Awareness

NCT03344081 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2021-09-16

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Summary

Meditation skills, or paying attention to internal mental states, are thought to improve people's health. This study is developing a new brain measure of meditation skills, called the EMBODY Task, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The investigators are testing whether pattern recognition methods can be applied to fMRI data to identify mental states during meditation, including attention to the body and to thoughts. This task is being developed in meditation practitioners and non-meditators. The goal is to understand what people are paying attention to during meditation using brain data. The investigators hypothesize that pattern recognition technology will be able to identify different mental states that occur during meditation.

Conditions

  • Attention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Mind and Life Institute, Hadley, Massachusetts

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of California, San Francisco

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Helen Y Weng, PhD · University of California, San Francisco

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-06-01
Primary Completion
2019-07-11
Completion
2019-07-11

Countries

  • United States

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