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According to a study in next week's Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, there is a possibility that the brain can be trained and
intentionally altered through mental activities such as meditation.
Researchers monitored Buddhist monks in the Dalai Lama's home for five days
to evaluate the effect of meditation on neuroplasticity-a term that refers
to the brain's ability to strengthen and weaken certain mental circuits-and
found that during meditation sessions, monks showed a "dramatic increase" in
high-frequency brain activities compared with "novice meditators," who
showed only a "slight increase" in activity. Scientists noted that although
they could not "rule out the possibility [of] a pre-existing difference" in
the brain function of the two groups, the fact that the monks who had
meditated the most "showed the greatest brain changes [gave them] confidence
that the changes are actually produced by mental activity."