Meditation, Mindfulness & Neuroplasticity

Meditation programmes show moderate evidence of small improvements in anxiety, depression and pain, comparable to other active treatments. Claims that meditation measurably rewires brain structure rest on small, often uncontrolled studies, and a large randomized trial found no structural changes after eight weeks of training.

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