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One of the most significant, or in fact the single most significant developments in mental health practice, since the turn of the millennium, has been the widespread emergence of mindfulness -based approaches used in connection with many forms of psychotherapeutic intervention. Mindfulness -based treatments are heavily involved in recruiting an attention network, including parietal and prefrontal structures. In addition, mindfulness activities assist in restoring connectivity between large-scale brain networks, including connectivity between the default mode network and the central executive and salience networks.
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Wasserman, T., Wasserman, L.D. (2019). Mindfulness-Based Approaches and Attention Regulation. In: Therapy and the Neural Network Model. Neural Network Model: Applications and Implications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26921-0_7
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