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While overall life expectancy has been increasing, the human brain still begins deteriorating after the first two decades of life and continues degrading further with increasing age. Thus, techniques that diminish the negative impact of aging on the brain are desirable. Existing research, although scarce, suggests meditation to be an attractive candidate in the quest for an accessible and inexpensive, efficacious remedy. Here, we examined the link between age and cerebral gray matter re-analyzing a large sample (n = 100) of long-term meditators and control subjects aged between 24 and 77 years. When correlating global and local gray matter with age, we detected negative correlations within both controls and meditators, suggesting a decline over time. However, the slopes of the regression lines were steeper and the correlation coefficients were stronger in controls than in meditators. Moreover, the age-affected brain regions were much more extended in controls than in meditators, with significant group-by-age interactions in numerous clusters throughout the brain. Altogether, these findings seem to suggest less age-related gray matter atrophy in long-term meditation practitioners.

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Eileen Luders und Kollegen gingen in dieser Arbeit der Frage nach, inwieweit sich Meditation auf den altersbedingten Verlust von Gehirnsubstanz auswirkt. Zugegeben, es handelt sich hier „nur” um eine Studie, bei denen Meditierende mit alters- und geschlechtsgematchten nichtmeditierenden Kontrollpersonen verglichen wurden.

Insgesamt wurden 50 Meditierende und 50 Kontrollen im Alter zwischen 24 und 77 Jahren in die Studie eingeschlossen. Die Meditationspraxis der Meditierenden betrug im

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