Lead Sponsor

University of California, San Francisco

Collaborators

Age

60 - 120 years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

•60 years of age or older
•English language fluency
•Naive to meditation practices (not actively meditating more than one hour per month and/or meditation practice for less than a year in their entire life-time)
•No MRI contra-indications
•Cognitively healthy (no diagnosis of dementia, stroke, developmental disorders, or major systemic diseases that may impact cognitive function)

•Below 60 years of age
•Not fluent in English
•Active meditator (meditating more than one hour per month and/or meditation practice for more than a year in their entire life-time).
•Presence of a severe psychiatric (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, PTSD), neurological (epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, dementia, multiple sclerosis), or developmental disorder (e.g. autism)
•Systemic disease (e.g. major recent surgeries, cancer)
•Claustrophobia
•Contraindications for MR safety (e.g. metal in body, cochlea implants)