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Meditation strengthens the brain

Meditation strengthens the brain

2012-03-15
Source: TG Daily


University of California Los Angeles researchers have discovered that meditation physically alters the brain, possibly allowing it to process information more quickly.

Long-term meditators have larger amounts of gyrification, or folding of the cortex, than people who do not meditate. Indeed, there was a direct correlation between the amount of gyrification and the number of years spent meditating.

The cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of neural tissue, and plays a key role in memory, attention, thought and consciousness. Gyrification increases the surface area of the brain, and is believed to enhance neural processing.

The researchers took MRI scans of 50 meditators, 28 men and 22 women, and compared them to 50 control subjects matched for age, handedness and sex....





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