Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness
Neuroreport November 7, 2005 Sara W. Lazar, Catherine E. Kerr, Rachel H. Wasserman et al. 1,707 citations
Previous research indicates that long-term meditation practice is associated with altered resting electroencephalogram patterns, suggestive of long lasting changes in brain activity. We hypothesized that meditation practice might also be associated with changes in the brain's physical structure. Magnetic resonance imaging was used to assess cortical thickness in 20 participants with extensive...