While at the gym this morning I listened to Episode 50 of The Secular Buddhist (http://www.editurl.com/qb0). The discussion was about a recent study conducted at Boston General Hospital. The study was designed as a pretest-posttest control-group design. They started with a group of non-meditors and measured their brain structure. Half the group then participated in Boston General Hospital's MBSR meditation program. At the end of eight weeks the brain structures of the new meditators and the non-treatment-group were again measured.
The results were astounding. They concluded that the results suggest that participation in MBSR is associated with changes in gray matter concentration in brain regions involved in learning and memory processes, emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perspective taking. Wow. Meditation is good for your brain.
The article is a little technical but you can reference it at the above link. The link will also give you access to a summary article about the reserach that was published at Science Daily.
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