Marta Čeko

Neuroprotective effects of yoga practice: age-, experience-, and frequency-dependent plasticity.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2015 Chantal Villemure, Marta Čeko, Valerie A Cotton et al.

Yoga combines postures, breathing, and meditation. Despite reported health benefits, yoga's effects on the brain have received little study. We used magnetic resonance imaging to compare age-related gray matter (GM) decline in yogis and controls. We also examined the effect of increasing yoga experience and weekly practice on GM volume and assessed which aspects of weekly practice contributed...