LOVING-KINDNESS & COMPASSION MEDITATION:
NEURAL CORRELATES & HEALTH

Hoge, E. A., Chen, M. M., Orr, E., Metcalf, C. A., Fischer, L. E., Pollack, M. H., De Vivo, I., & Simon, N. M. (2013). Loving-Kindness Meditation practice associated with longer telomeres in women. Brain, Behaviour & Immunity, 32, 159-163.

Lutz, A., Brefczynski-Lewis, J., Johnstone, T., & Davidson, R. J. (2008). Regulation of the Neural Circuitry of Emotion by Compassion Meditation: Effects of Meditative Expertise. PLOS One, 3, 3, e1897.
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Lutz, A., Greischar, L. L., Perlman, D. M., & Davidson, R. J. (2009). BOLD signal in insula is differentially related to cardiac function during compassion meditation in experts vs novices. NeuroImage, 47, 1038-1046.
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Lutz, A., Greischar, L. L., Rawlings, N. B., Ricard, M., & Davidson, R. J. (2004). Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101, 46, 16369-16373.
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Leung, M., Chan, C. C. H., Yin, J., Lee, C. So, K., & Lee, T, M. C. (2013). Increased gray matter volume in the right angular and posterior parahippocampal gyri in loving-kindness meditators. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 1, 34-39.
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COMPASSION IN ACTION
Condon, P., Desbordes, G., Miller, W., DeSteno, D. (2013). Meditation increases compassionate responses to suffering. Psychological Science, 24, 10, 2125-2127.
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Leiberg, S., Kilmecki, O., & Singer, T. (2011). Short-Term Compassion Training Increases Prosocial Behavior in a Newly Developed Prosocial Game. PLOS One, 6, 3, e1178.
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Mascaro, J. S., Rilling, J. K., Negi, L. T., & Raison, C. L. (2013). Compassion meditation enhances empathic accuracy and related neural activity. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 1, 48-55.

Weng, H. Y., Fox, A. S., Shackman, A. J., Stodola, D. E., Caldwell, J. Z. K., Olson, M. C., Rogers, G. M., Davidson, R. J. (2013). Compassion Training Alters Altruism and Neural Responses to Suffering. Psychological Science, 24, 7, 1171-1180.
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