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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- Measuring Cognitive Outcomes in Mindfulness-based Intervention Research: A Reflection on Confounding Factors and Methodological Limitations