Younger Brain

davidsmith208
Oct 20, 2018
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Science:

The big news about meditation For older folks comes from our study at UCLA that finds meditation slows the usual shrinkage of our brain as we age; at age 50, long-term meditators brains are “younger” by 7.5 years compared to brains of non-meditators of the same age Bonus; for every year beyond 50, the brains of practitioners were younger than their peers by one month and 22 days. Eileen Luders et al., “Estimating Brain Age Using High-Resolution Pattern Recognition : Younger Brains in Long-Term Practitioners, “ Neuro-Image (2016) Page 180 in Altered Traits by Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson

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