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13 Nov 2005 @ 14:24 New York Nov 12: Meditation can help to increase your grey matter. Meditation increases the thickness of the cortex area in the brain - important for sensory, cognitive and emotional processing - says a research paper published in the November issue of NeuroReport and reported by EurekAlert. Although the study included only 20 participants, all with extensive training in Buddhist insight meditation, the results are significant, said Dr Jeremy Gray, assistant professor of psychology at Yale and co-author of the study led by Dr Sara Lazar, assistant in psychology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. “What is most fascinating to me is the suggestion that meditation practice can change anyone’s grey matter,” Dr Gray was quoted as saying. “The study participants were people with jobs and families. They just meditated on average 40 minutes each day.” “Most of the regions identified in this study were found in the right hemisphere,” the researchers said. “The right hemisphere is essential for sustaining attention, which is a central practice of insight meditation.” They said other forms of yoga and meditation were likely to have a similar impact on cortical structure, although each tradition would be expected to have a slightly different pattern of cortical thickening based on the specific mental exercises involved article

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