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
- Greater widespread functional connectivity of the caudate in older adults who practice kripalu yoga and vipassana meditation than in controls
- Moving beyond mindfulness: defining equanimity as an outcome measure in meditation and contemplative research