MRI shows Chinese meditation changes brain

MRI shows Chinese meditation changes brain

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After practicing a form of Chinese meditation known as IBMT for 11 hours, people showed positive changes in brain connections.

In the participants, MRI showed increases in brain-signaling connections and expansion of myelin, the protective fatty tissue that surrounds the axons, in the brain’s anterior cingulate region.

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