Brain scans of participants before and after eight weeks of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) revealed that
A) brain regions involved in memory became less active.
B) the emotional regions of their brains became less responsive to negative stimuli.
C) brain regions involved in memory became more active.
D) the emotional regions of their brains became more responsive to positive stimuli.
Answer: B
Rationale: A second brain scan following eight weeks of MBSR—in which their reactions to negative statements about themselves were monitored—revealed that the emotional centers of the brain that were previously activated by negative statements were less responsive at this follow-up test.
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