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Integrative Body-Mind Training Meditation Found to Boost Brain

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Brain areas influenced by IBMT.

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of Oregon)

ScienceDaily — Just 11 hours of

learning a meditation technique induces positive structural changes in

brain connectivity by boosting efficiency in a part of the brain that

helps a person regulate behavior in accordance with their goals,

researchers report.

The technique -- integrative body-mind

training (IBMT) -- has been the focus of intense scrutiny by a team of

Chinese researchers led by Yi-Yuan Tang of Dalian University of

Technology in collaboration with University of Oregon psychologist

I. Posner.

IBMT was adapted from traditional

Chinese medicine in the 1990s in China, where it is practiced by

thousands of people. It is now being taught to undergraduates involved

in research on the method at the University of Oregon.

The new research -- published online the

week of Aug. 16-21 ahead of regular publication in the Proceedings of

the National Academy of Sciences -- involved 45 UO students (28 males

and 17 females); 22 subjects received IBMT while 23 participants were

in a control group that received the same amount of relaxation

training. The experiments involved the use of brain-imaging equipment

in the UO's and Beverly Center for Neuroimaging.

A type of magnetic resonance called

diffusion tensor imaging allowed researchers to examine fibers

connecting brain regions before and after training. The changes were

strongest in connections involving the anterior cingulate, a brain area

related to the ability to regulate emotions and behavior. The changes

were observed only in those who practiced meditation and not in the

control group. The changes in connectivity began after six hours of

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