Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness
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Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness.
Previous research indicates that long-term meditation practice is associated with altered resting electroencephalogram patterns, suggestive of long lasting changes in brain activity. We hypothesized that meditation practice might also be associated with changes in the brain's physical structure. Magnetic resonance imaging was used to assess cortical thickness in 20 participants with extensive I...
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عنوان ژورنال: NeuroReport
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0959-4965
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000186598.66243.19