Study proves that meditation reduces stress
Posted on: 08/Jun/2013 6:03:20 PM
A study conducted by Wake Forest Baptist has shown that meditation reduces stress by as much as 39 per cent. The study involved 15 volunteers whose brain activity was recorded before and after the study. Anxiety or stress relief caused by meditation is associated with areas of the brain that is most involved with executive level functioning.
‘Although we`ve known that meditation can reduce anxiety, we hadn`t identified the specific brain mechanisms involved in relieving anxiety in healthy individuals…In this study, we were able to see which areas of the brain were activated and which were deactivated during meditation-related anxiety relief’, said Post Doctoral research Fellow in Neurobiology and Anatomy and lead author of the study Fadel Zeidan.
