Sara Lazar

Sara Lazar

Harvard University

H-index: 46

North America-United States

About Sara Lazar

Sara Lazar, With an exceptional h-index of 46 and a recent h-index of 37 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Harvard University, specializes in the field of mindfulness, meditation, neuroscience.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Silence Practice Modulates the Resting State Functional Connectivity of Language Network with Default Mode and Dorsal Attention Networks in Long-Term Meditators

Childhood adversity severity modulates the associations between adaptive psychological changes and amygdala volumetric changes in response to behavioral interventions

Attenuation of anxiety-potentiated startle after treatment with escitalopram or mindfulness meditation in anxiety disorders

Beneficial effects of mindfulness-based intervention on hippocampal volumes and episodic memory for childhood adversity survivors

Distributed neural representations of conditioned threat in the human brain

Mindfulness training and exercise differentially impact fear extinction neurocircuitry

Do contemplative practices make us more moral?

Mindfulness training changes brain dynamics during depressive rumination: A randomized controlled trial

Sara Lazar Information

University

Position

Massachusetts General Hospital

Citations(all)

23357

Citations(since 2020)

11031

Cited By

16494

hIndex(all)

46

hIndex(since 2020)

37

i10Index(all)

66

i10Index(since 2020)

61

Email

University Profile Page

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Sara Lazar Skills & Research Interests

mindfulness

meditation

neuroscience

Top articles of Sara Lazar

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Silence Practice Modulates the Resting State Functional Connectivity of Language Network with Default Mode and Dorsal Attention Networks in Long-Term Meditators

Mindfulness

Vaibhav Tripathi

Kathryn J Devaney

Sara W Lazar

David C Somers

2024/2/29

Childhood adversity severity modulates the associations between adaptive psychological changes and amygdala volumetric changes in response to behavioral interventions

Journal of affective disorders reports

Diane Joss

Junjie Lu

Martin H Teicher

Sara W Lazar

2024/1/1

Attenuation of anxiety-potentiated startle after treatment with escitalopram or mindfulness meditation in anxiety disorders

Biological Psychiatry

Elizabeth A Hoge

Caroline H Armstrong

Mihriye Mete

Isabelle Oliva

Sara W Lazar

...

2024/1/1

Beneficial effects of mindfulness-based intervention on hippocampal volumes and episodic memory for childhood adversity survivors

Journal of Affective Disorders Reports

Diane Joss

Martin H Teicher

Sara W Lazar

2024/4/1

Distributed neural representations of conditioned threat in the human brain

Nature Communications

Zhenfu Wen

Edward F Pace-Schott

Sara W Lazar

Jörgen Rosén

Fredrik Åhs

...

2024/3/12

Mindfulness training and exercise differentially impact fear extinction neurocircuitry

Psychological Medicine

Shaked E Leibovitz

Gunes Sevinc

Jonathan Greenberg

Britta Hölzel

Tim Gard

...

2024/3

Do contemplative practices make us more moral?

Kevin Berryman

Sara W Lazar

Jakob Hohwy

2023/8/12

Mindfulness training changes brain dynamics during depressive rumination: A randomized controlled trial

Biological psychiatry

Anne Maj van der Velden

Jacqueline Scholl

Else-Marie Elmholdt

Lone O Fjorback

Catherine J Harmer

...

2023/2/1

Contemplating movement: A randomized control trial of yoga training for mental health

Mental Health and Physical Activity

John Eusebio

Bo Forbes

Charlotte Sahyoun

David R Vago

Sara W Lazar

...

2022/10/1

Intuitive eating buffers the link between internalized weight stigma and body mass index in stressed adults

Appetite

Tosca D Braun

Jessica L Unick

Ana M Abrantes

Kristy Dalrymple

Lisa A Conboy

...

2022/2/1

Revisiting sex differences in the acquisition and extinction of threat conditioning in humans

Learning & Memory

Zhenfu Wen

Jamie Fried

Edward F Pace-Schott

Sara W Lazar

Mohammed R Milad

2022/9/2

Top-down threat bias in pain perception is predicted by intrinsic structural and functional connections of the brain

NeuroImage

Guillermo Aristi

Christopher O'Grady

Chris Bowen

Steven Beyea

Sara W Lazar

...

2022/9/1

The effect of mindfulness-based programs on cognitive function in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Tim Whitfield

Thorsten Barnhofer

Rebecca Acabchuk

Avi Cohen

Michael Lee

...

2022/9

Temporally and anatomically specific contributions of the human amygdala to threat and safety learning

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Zhenfu Wen

Candace M Raio

Edward F Pace-Schott

Sara W Lazar

Joseph E LeDoux

...

2022/6/28

Distinct networks of periaqueductal gray columns in pain and threat processing

NeuroImage

Sean Wang

Jennika Veinot

Amita Goyal

Ali Khatibi

Sara W Lazar

...

2022/4/15

Attention and Default Mode Network Assessments of Meditation Experience during Active Cognition and Rest

Brain Sciences

Kathryn J Devaney

Emily J Levin

Vaibhav Tripathi

James P Higgins

Sara W Lazar

...

2021/4/29

A pilot study on amygdala volumetric changes among young adults with childhood maltreatment histories after a mindfulness intervention

Behavioural brain research

Diane Joss

Alaptagin Khan

Sara W Lazar

Martin H Teicher

2021/2/5

From self-esteem to selflessness: An evidence (gap) map of self-related processes as mechanisms of mindfulness-based interventions

Willoughby B Britton

Gaëlle Desbordes

Rebecca Acabchuk

Nicholas K Canby

David R Vago

...

2021/11/22

How does yoga reduce stress? A clinical trial testing psychological mechanisms

Stress and Health

Crystal L Park

Lucy Finkelstein‐Fox

Shane J Sacco

Tosca D Braun

Sara Lazar

2021/2

Yoga participation associated with changes in dietary patterns and stress: A pilot study in stressed adults with poor diet

Complementary therapies in clinical practice

Tosca D Braun

Elizabeth D Schifano

Lucy Finkelstein-Fox

Crystal L Park

Lisa A Conboy

...

2021/11/1

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Co-Authors

H-index: 92
Martin H. Teicher

Martin H. Teicher

Harvard University

H-index: 77
Douglas N Greve

Douglas N Greve

Harvard University

H-index: 52
Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore

Brown University

H-index: 32
David R. Vago

David R. Vago

Vanderbilt University

H-index: 28
Kieran Fox, MD PhD

Kieran Fox, MD PhD

Stanford University

H-index: 21
Javeria Ali Hashmi

Javeria Ali Hashmi

Dalhousie University

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