Buck You realise this is not a TM study. It has been shown that mindfulness meditation thickens the frontal cortex, so a result such as this might be expected. The study says the meditators 'were recruited from various venues in the greater Los Angeles area', so the study likely has a mix of various kinds of meditation. The only kind of meditation referenced in the references was mindfulness.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Jai Guru Dev, While overall life expectancy has been increasing, the human brain still begins deteriorating after the first two decades of life and continues degrading further with increasing age. Thus, techniques that diminish the negative impact of aging on the brain are desirable.. Much research has focused on the identification of risk factors, but relatively less attention has been turned to positive approaches aimed at enhancing cerebral health.. ..The outcomes from all three studies seem to suggest that meditation may slow, stall, or even reverse age-related brain degeneration, as there were less pronounced negative correlations and even positive correlations in meditators compared to controls (for a more detailed summary see Luders, 2014 http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01551/full#B23). Forever Young(er): potential age-defying effects of long-term meditation on gray matter atrophy http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01551/full http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01551/full Forever Young(er): potential age-defying effects of long... http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01551/full While overall life expectancy has been increasing, the human brain still begins deteriorating after the first two decades of life and continues degrading further wi... View on journal.frontiersin.org http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01551/full Preview by Yahoo
