Saturday, February 7, 2015

MPDR Archives Blog Post #186 - February 6, 2015

Pause
 Bring your attention to the following 3 breaths
 image by M. Lee Freedman

“Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. In a study that will appear in the Jan. 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Harvard-affiliated researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reported the results of their study, the first to document meditation-produced changes over time in the brain’s gray matter.
- Sue McGreevey (excerpt from article 8 Weeks to a Better Brain in the Harvard Gazette)

If you are interested in reading the rest of the article, here is the link: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain/

Wishing you a mindful day
  
Lee
M. Lee Freedman MD, CM, FRCP(C)

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