How many decades before your doctor creates a stroke protocol around this?
5? 10? Don't do this on your own, you know how dangerous meditation is without your doctors prescription to control it.
http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01551/abstract
- 1Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- 2Centre for Research on Ageing Health and Wellbeing, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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.
Existing research, although scarce, suggests meditation to be an
attractive candidate in the quest for an accessible and inexpensive,
efficacious remedy. Here, we examined the link between age and cerebral
gray matter re-analyzing a large sample (
n = 100) of long-term
meditators and control subjects aged between 24 and 77 years. When
correlating global and local gray matter with age, we detected negative
correlations within both controls and meditators, suggesting a decline
over time. However, the slopes of the regression lines were steeper and
the correlation coefficients were stronger in controls than in
meditators. Moreover, the age-affected brain regions were much more
extended in controls than in meditators, with significant group-by-age
interactions in numerous clusters throughout the brain.
Altogether,
these findings seem to suggest less age-related gray matter atrophy in
long-term meditation practitioners.
Eileen Luders
Nicolas Cherbuin
Florian Kurth
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