37. Mindfulness Meditation Training
Changes Brain Structure in Eight
Weeks
• Jan. 21, 2011 — Participating in an 8-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 January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research:
Neuroimaging, a team led by Massachusetts General
Hospital (MGH) researchers report the results of their
study, the first to document meditation-produced
changes over time in the brain's grey matter.
• James Carmody, PhD, of the Center for Mindfulness at
University of Massachusetts Medical School,
38. Meditation can speed up the brain
UCLA researchers have discovered that meditation may
speed up brain processing by increasing something
known as "gyrification.“
Alterations in brain and immune
function produced by
mindfulness meditation.
39. What Happens to the Brain When You
Meditate (And How it Benefits You)
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Better Focus 注意力集中
Less Anxiety 不焦慮
More Creativity 具有創造性
More Compassion 更有同理心
Better Memory 記憶力增強
Less Stress 抗壓性增加
More Gray Matter 改變腦結構