--- In [email protected], cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051110215950.htm > > Meditation Associated With Increased Grey Matter In The Brain > Meditation is known to alter resting brain patterns, suggesting long > lasting brain changes, but a new study by researchers from Yale, > Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Massachusetts > Institute of Technology shows meditation also is associated with > increased cortical thickness. >
"They said other forms of yoga and meditation likely 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." Will be interesting to see if TM has this effect. It doesn't affect one hemisphere over the other and isn't a "mental exercise." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
