Effects of long-term mindfulness meditation on brain's white matter microstructure and its aging.
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience January 15, 2016 Davide eLaneri, Verena eSchuster, Bruno eDietsche et al.
Although research on the effects of mindfulness meditation (MM) is increasing, still very little has been done to address its influence on the white matter (WM) of the brain. We hypothesized that the practice of MM might affect the WM microstructure adjacent to five brain regions of interest associated with mindfulness. Diffusion tensor imaging was employed on samples of meditators and...