15 July 2011

#Brains of people who have practiced #meditation for long time have more grey matter. Why?

Is meditation "push-ups" for the brain?


Two years ago, researchers at UCLA found that specific regions in the brains of long-term meditators were larger and had more gray matter than the brains of individuals in a control group. This suggested that meditation may indeed be good for all of us since, alas, our brains shrink naturally with age.

Read about the full article from Machines Like Us here:

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