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Meditation produces enduring changes in emotional processing in the brain, study shows
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 20:21
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Study participants who completed an eight-week meditation training course had reduced activity in the right amygdala (highlighted structure) in response to emotional images, even when not meditating. Credit: Gaëlle Desbordes, Ph.D., Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Mass. General Hospital.
A new study has found that participating in an 8-week meditation training program can have measurable effects on how the brain functions even when someone is not actively meditating. In their report in the November issue of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston University (BU), and several other research centers also found differences in those effects based on the specific type of meditation practiced …. http://medicalxpress.com
2012-11-14 16:26:59
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