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Meditation can Change the Structure of the Brain

March 8, 2011 by Greater Good Science Center

(Editor’s Note: We are pleased to bring you this arti­cle by Jason Marsh, thanks to our col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Greater Good Mag­a­zine.)

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I con­sid­er myself some­thing of a prospec­tive meditator—meaning that a seri­ous med­i­ta­tion prac­tice is always some­thing I’m about to start… next week. So for years, I’ve been mak­ing a men­tal note of new stud­ies show­ing that med­i­ta­tion can lit­er­al­ly change our brain struc­ture in ways that might boost con­cen­tra­tion, mem­o­ry, and pos­i­tive emotions.

The results seem entic­ing enough to make any­one drop into the full lotus position—until you read the fine print: Much of this research involves peo­ple who have med­i­tat­ed for thou­sands of hours over many years; some of it zeroes in on Olympic-lev­el med­i­ta­tors who have clocked 10,000 hours or more. Pret­ty daunting.

Well, a new study offers some hope—and makes the ben­e­fits of med­i­ta­tion seem with­in reach even for a novice like me. The study, pub­lished in Jan­u­ary in the jour­nal Psy­chi­a­try Research: Neu­roimag­ing, sug­gests that med­i­tat­ing for just 30 min­utes a day for eight weeks can increase the den­si­ty of gray mat­ter in brain regions asso­ci­at­ed with mem­o­ry, stress, and empa­thy. [Read more…] about Med­i­ta­tion can Change the Struc­ture of the Brain

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: hippocampus, increased-gray-matter, larger-hippocampus, mbsr, meditation, Meditation-and-The-Brain, Mindfulness-Based-Stress-Reduction

Brain Fitness Program: evaluation checklist

May 16, 2007 by Alvaro Fernandez

Please check out our press release today: Sharp­Brains Announces Ten-Point Brain Fit­ness Check­list. We hope this infor­ma­tion is use­ful as you eval­u­ate all the pro­grams that are appear­ing. 

“Lead­ing Source of Brain Exer­cise Infor­ma­tion Estab­lish­es 10 Must-Ask Ques­tions for Con­sumers Choos­ing Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Programs”

“SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The influx of brain exer­cise pro­grams dur­ing the past six months has lead SharpBrains.com, the nation’s first online brain fit­ness cen­ter and lead­ing provider of men­tal exer­cise infor­ma­tion and pro­grams, to estab­lish a 10-ques­tion check­list to help con­sumers choose the best brain fit­ness pro­gram for their needs.”

10 Ques­tions to Choose the

Right Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram for You

 

BASED ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

1. Are there sci­en­tists (ide­al­ly neu­ropsy­chol­o­gists) and a sci­en­tif­ic advi­so­ry board behind the program?
2. Are there pub­lished, peer-reviewed sci­en­tif­ic papers writ­ten by those sci­en­tists? How many?
 

MEASURABLE CLAIMS AND BENEFITS

3. What are the spe­cif­ic ben­e­fits claimed for using this pro­gram? [Read more…] about Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram: eval­u­a­tion checklist

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain-injury, brain-science, cognitive-rehabilitation, gold-standard, larger-hippocampus, start-up

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