 Sara Whitney Lazar, PH.D.
| Title | Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry |
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| Institution | Massachusetts General Hospital |
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| Department | Psychiatry |
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| Address | Massachusetts General Hospital
Psychiatry - 2nd floor
149 13th Street
Charlestown MA 02129
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| Phone | 617/724-9602 |
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 Mentoring Available: 09/01/12, Expires: 08/30/14 We use neuroimaging to understand how brain activity and structure change as a result of meditation and yoga training. Healthy but stressed individuals are randomized to either a meditation-based stress reduction intervention or health education control intervention. MRI measures of brain function and structure are acquired before and after each intervention, as well as measures of emotion regulation, attention, and well-being. We are also interested in brain-body interaction and the effect of meditation on stress reactivity.
The student would be involved in data collection and the analysis of behavioral and questionnaire data. Students really committed to learning MRI data analysis and who can devote sufficient amounts of time can be trained to do so. We also need clinicians to administer the SCID to potential study participants. Defining and Measuring Mindfulness Summer, 06/06/12 - 08/01/12 Bibliographic
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Kerr CE, Sacchet MD, Lazar SW, Moore CI, Jones SR. Mindfulness starts with the body: somatosensory attention and top-down modulation of cortical alpha rhythms in mindfulness meditation. Front Hum Neurosci. 2013; 7:12.
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Kodituwakku S, Lazar SW, Indic P, Chen Z, Brown EN, Barbieri R. Point process time-frequency analysis of dynamic respiratory patterns during meditation practice. Med Biol Eng Comput. 2012 Mar; 50(3):261-75.
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Gard T, Hölzel BK, Sack AT, Hempel H, Lazar SW, Vaitl D, Ott U. Pain attenuation through mindfulness is associated with decreased cognitive control and increased sensory processing in the brain. Cereb Cortex. 2012 Nov; 22(11):2692-702.
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Stange JP, Eisner LR, Hölzel BK, Peckham AD, Dougherty DD, Rauch SL, Nierenberg AA, Lazar S, Deckersbach T. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder: effects on cognitive functioning. J Psychiatr Pract. 2011 Nov; 17(6):410-9.
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Kerr CE, Jones SR, Wan Q, Pritchett DL, Wasserman RH, Wexler A, Villanueva JJ, Shaw JR, Lazar SW, Kaptchuk TJ, Littenberg R, Hämäläinen MS, Moore CI. Effects of mindfulness meditation training on anticipatory alpha modulation in primary somatosensory cortex. Brain Res Bull. 2011 May 30; 85(3-4):96-103.
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Deckersbach T, Hölzel BK, Eisner LR, Stange JP, Peckham AD, Dougherty DD, Rauch SL, Lazar S, Nierenberg AA. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for nonremitted patients with bipolar disorder. CNS Neurosci Ther. 2012 Feb; 18(2):133-41.
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Hölzel BK, Carmody J, Vangel M, Congleton C, Yerramsetti SM, Gard T, Lazar SW. Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density. Psychiatry Res. 2011 Jan 30; 191(1):36-43.
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Van Dijk KR, Hedden T, Venkataraman A, Evans KC, Lazar SW, Buckner RL. Intrinsic functional connectivity as a tool for human connectomics: theory, properties, and optimization. J Neurophysiol. 2010 Jan; 103(1):297-321.
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Hölzel BK, Carmody J, Evans KC, Hoge EA, Dusek JA, Morgan L, Pitman RK, Lazar SW. Stress reduction correlates with structural changes in the amygdala. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2010 Mar; 5(1):11-7.
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Evans KC, Dougherty DD, Schmid AM, Scannell E, McCallister A, Benson H, Dusek JA, Lazar SW. Modulation of spontaneous breathing via limbic/paralimbic-bulbar circuitry: an event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage. 2009 Sep; 47(3):961-71.
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Dusek JA, Chang BH, Zaki J, Lazar S, Deykin A, Stefano GB, Wohlhueter AL, Hibberd PL, Benson H. Association between oxygen consumption and nitric oxide production during the relaxation response. Med Sci Monit. 2006 Jan; 12(1):CR1-10.
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Lazar SW, Kerr CE, Wasserman RH, Gray JR, Greve DN, Treadway MT, McGarvey M, Quinn BT, Dusek JA, Benson H, Rauch SL, Moore CI, Fischl B. Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport. 2005 Nov 28; 16(17):1893-7.
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Lazar SW, Bush G, Gollub RL, Fricchione GL, Khalsa G, Benson H. Functional brain mapping of the relaxation response and meditation. Neuroreport. 2000 May 15; 11(7):1581-5.
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