Cortical thickness, mental absorption and meditative practice: possible implications for disorders of attention.
Biological Psychology February 2013 Joshua A Grant, Emma G Duerden, Jérôme Courtemanche et al.
Mental training techniques rooted in meditation are associated with attention improvement, increased activation and cortical thickening of attention/executive-related brain areas. Interestingly, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with behavioural deficits, hypo-activation and cortical thinning of similar networks. This study assessed the relationship between prior...