Meditation May Increase Gray Matter
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 00:22
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers report that certain regions of the brain in long-term meditators were larger than non-meditators. Specifically, meditators showed significantly larger volumes of the hippocampus, and within the orbito-frontal cortex, thalamus and inferior temporal gyrus, all regions of the brain known for regulating emotions.