Interesting Article on Meditation & the Brain
I found this article reported in the New York Times interesting. It reports on a controlled study showing that meditators showed increases in gray matter in areas of the brain associated with empathy, memory, stress, and attention span. No such … Continue reading
Interesting Article on Amygdala Size Linked to Socializing
Interesting article here showing a relationship between the size of the left and right amygdalas and how many friends and family members a person sees regularly: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101226/ap_on_sc/us_sci_social_brain. Participants may recall our discussion of the left and right amygdalas in the … Continue reading