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Grey matter loss can be reversed by meditation in patients with mild cognitive impairment

Meditation can cure gray matter loss in patients with moderate cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild Alzheimer’s disease—a neurodegenerative illness that progresses over time. The frontal areas of the brain that control attention and goal-directed decision-making revealed a significant increase in grey matter in the meditation group.

According to a study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, an inexpensive meditation technique can help reverse grey matter loss, which is supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Key Highlight:

  • Meditation can cure gray matter loss in patients with moderate cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild Alzheimer’s disease.
  • The frontal areas of the brain that control attention and goal-directed decision-making revealed a significant increase in grey matter in the meditation group.
  • The majority of our waking hours are occupied by mental activity.
  • According to a new study, mind wandering, especially when accompanied by continuous negative thoughts, harms the brain.

For patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or mild Alzheimer’s disease, researchers suggest that daily practice of a basic, easy-to-follow, and cost-effective meditation regimen can help reverse grey matter loss.

In conjunction with other researchers, Dr Amitabha Ghosh of Apollo Multispeciality Hospital Kolkata and Dr S Bapi Raju of the Cognitive Science lab at IIIT Hyderabad assigned patients with MCI or mild Alzheimer’s disease to meditation or control groups.

For six months, the group of silent, sitting meditators practiced 30 minutes of meditation every day. MRI scans were performed at the beginning of the study, and neuropsychological evaluations were completed six months later for all patients. There was significantly more gray matter in the meditation group’s frontal brain regions, which are crucial for controlling attention and making goal-directed decisions, and less gray matter in the group’s hindbrain regions.

In addition to the left hippocampus and right thalamus, researchers found that the volume of gray matter in these regions had increased. It appears that the meditators are improving their focus, according to the researchers. Published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is a study financed by the Department of Science & Technology’s SATYAM initiative.

There is still a lot of work to be done in the field of MCI and Alzheimer’s disease meditation research, though.

The majority of our waking hours are occupied by mental activity.” According to a new study, mind wandering, especially when accompanied by continuous negative thoughts, harms the brain, increasing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease or even early aging. Dr. Ghosh said that nonjudgmental awareness of one’s thoughts is taught in meditation, allowing one to focus on one’s goals better.

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