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Forever young: Meditation might slow the age-related loss of gray matter in the brain

February 5, 2015 by

Building on their earlier work that suggested people who meditate have less age-related atrophy in the brain's white matter, a new study found that meditation appeared to help preserve the brain's gray matter, the tissue that contains neurons.

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