Inside the mindful moment: The effects of brief mindfulness practice on large-scale network organization and intimate partner aggression
October 18, 2023 Hadley Rahrig, Liangsuo Ma, Kirk Warren Brown et al. preprint
A brief mindfulness induction altered functional brain networks in intimate partner dyads, reducing coherence within the Default Mode Network and increasing connectivity within the Frontoparietal Control and Salience Networks, while decoupling primary visual and attention-linked networks. However, these neural changes did not translate into reduced intimate partner aggression, and aggression was broadly unassociated with any network indices. The findings suggest that minimal doses of focused attention meditation can produce transient changes in large-scale brain networks, but their implications for aggressive behavior remain uncertain.