Very interesting. I'm sure glad I do a bit of mindfulness every day to take advantage of these brain-age improving effects. I wonder how much is enough though and should I drop TM entirely to concentrate on it?
---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
