Altered Traits by Daniel Goleman & Richard Davidson

Author:Daniel Goleman & Richard Davidson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

THE MEDITATOR’S BRAIN

You may have heard the good news that meditation thickens key parts of the brain. The first scientific report of this neural benefit came in 2005 from Sara Lazar, an early grad of Mind and Life’s Summer Research Institute, who became a researcher at Harvard Medical School.25

Compared with nonmeditators, her group reported, meditators had greater cortical thickness in areas important for sensing inside one’s own body and for attention, specifically the anterior insula and zones of the prefrontal cortex.

Sara’s report has been followed by a stream of others, many (but not all) reporting increased size in key parts of meditators’ brains. Less than a decade later (a very short time given how long such research takes to ramp up, execute, analyze, and report), there were enough brain imaging studies of meditators to justify a meta-analysis, where twenty-one studies were combined to see what held up, what did not.26

The results: certain areas of the brain seemed to enlarge in meditators, among them:

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