Publications and Media
Media
Make Peace With Your Anxious Brain: Mindful Magazine
Scientific American on the neuroscience of mindfulness: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/06/12/what-does-mindfulness-meditation-do-to-your-brain/
Interview covering our MBSR and IL-6 study: http://reset.me/study/study-mindfulness-meditation-can-reduce-inflammation-and-prevent-disease/
Winter 2017 class "The Science of Stress", taught at Middlebury College: J-Term Scenes: The Science of Stress
Peer-Reviewed Publications
- Functional Parcellation of the Default Mode Network: A Large-Scale Meta-Analysis Wang S*, Taren AA*, Smith DV. (2018)
- Alterations in Resting-State Functional Connectivity Link Mindfulness Meditation With Reduced Interleukin-6: A Randomized Controlled Trial. (Taren et al, 2017) Psychosomatic Medicine.
- Mindfulness meditation training alters stress-related amygdala resting state functional connectivity: a randomized controlled trial (Taren et al, 2015): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26048176
- Dispositional Mindfulness Covaries with Smaller Amygdala and Caudate Volumes in Community Adults (Taren et al, 2013): http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0064574
- Sayers, W.M., Creswell, J.D., Taren, A.A. "The Emerging Neurobiology of Mindfulness and Emotion Processing" Handbook of Mindfulness and Self-Regulation (In press)
- A parallel functional topography between medial and lateral prefrontal cortex: evidence and implications for cognitive control. (Taren et al, 2010): http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/13/5026.long
- Resolving response, decision, and strategic control: evidence for a functional topography in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. http://www.jneurosci.org/content/29/42/13158.long