Abstract #1856

Mental training effects on adolescent brain networks

Olga Tymofiyeva¹, Eva Henje Blom^2,3,4, Justin Yuan¹, Colm G Connolly², Tiffany C Ho^2,5, Lisa Baldini⁶, Trevor Flynn¹, Matthew D Sacchet⁵, Kaja Z LeWinn², Rebecca Dumont Walter¹, Tony T Yang², and Duan Xu¹

¹Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, ²Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, ³Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ⁴Clinical Sciences, Umeå Universitet, Umeå, Sweden, ⁵Psychology and Neurosciences Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, ⁶PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium

In this study we used diffusion MRI network analyses to examine the effects of a 12-week training of attention and emotion regulation. Our preliminary results in 24 healthy adolescents demonstrate an improvement of executive attention and an increase of the node strength of the left anterior cingulate cortex.

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