Meditation Enhances Reminiscence Operate – BionicOldGuy

A current article in Neuroscience Information opinions varied ways in which meditation helps with reminiscence operate:

• An space of the mind referred to as the hippocampus, essential to reminiscence operate, tends to shrink with age. Decreasing stress, to which meditation contributes considerably, slows down this course of.
• a longer-term Meditation follow tends to make the thickness of the cerebral cortex (also referred to as cortical thickness), improve, in a number of areas essential to reminiscence.
• Working reminiscence, the processes within the mind that retailer short-term info, is improved by meditation.

I mentioned different advantages of meditation right here, and gave recommendation on the right way to get began right here (and extra element right here). It’s good to know researchers are persevering with so as to add to the record of advantages.