"Meditation Associated With Structural Changes In Brain"
By: Massachusetts General Hospital on Mar 14 2006 23:04:17
"Meditation and Attention
The regular practice of meditation appears to produce structuralchanges in areas of the brain associated with attention and sensoryprocessing. An imaging study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers showed that particular areas of the cerebral cortex,the outer layer of the brain, were thicker in participants who wereexperienced practitioners of a type of meditation commonly practicedin the U.S. and other Western countries..."
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