Abstract：
:Zen meditation, a Buddhist practice centered on attentional and postural self-regulation, has been speculated to bring about beneficial long-term effects for the individual, ranging from stress reduction to improvement of cognitive function. In this study, we examined how the regular practice of meditation may affect the normal age-related decline of cerebral gray matter volume and attentional performance observed in healthy individuals. Voxel-based morphometry for MRI anatomical brain images and a computerized sustained attention task were employed in 13 regular practitioners of Zen meditation and 13 matched controls. While control subjects displayed the expected negative correlation of both gray matter volume and attentional performance with age, meditators did not show a significant correlation of either measure with age. The effect of meditation on gray matter volume was most prominent in the putamen, a structure strongly implicated in attentional processing. These findings suggest that the regular practice of meditation may have neuroprotective effects and reduce the cognitive decline associated with normal aging.
journal_name
Neurobiol Agingjournal_title
Neurobiology of agingauthors
Pagnoni G,Cekic Mdoi
10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2007.06.008subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-10-01 00:00:00pages
1623-7issue
10eissn
0197-4580issn
1558-1497pii
S0197-4580(07)00243-6journal_volume
28pub_type
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