Watch an excerpt from Sara's episode of The Conversation Series.
We study the impact of yoga and meditation on various cognitive and behavioral functions. Our results suggest that meditation can produce experience-based structural alterations in the brain. We also found evidence that meditation may slow down the age related atrophy of certain areas of the brain.
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- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depressed individuals improves suppression of irrelevant mental-sets
- Change in brainstem gray matter concentration following a mindfulness-based intervention is correlated with improvement in psychological well-being
- Fluid intelligence and brain functional organization in aging yoga and meditation practitioners