Meditation is a self-entrainment of the mind impacting overall health. We evaluated the effect of long-term meditation on the cognitive status and selected neurophysiological parameters.Thirty experienced long-term meditators (LTM) and thirty matched meditation naïve controls (MNC) were selected. A validated Sinhala-version of the repeatable battery for the assessment of neuropsychological...
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons, leading to both motor and non-motor symptoms. Although dopaminergic therapy is the current goldstandard therapy in symptomatic management, it does not alter disease progression. Meditation, a complementary therapy, has shown promise in alleviating...