The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
because functional imaging of the brain, so-called MRI or fMRI, was really just starting to emerge as a popular tool in laboratories and hospitals, there really wasn't that much mechanistic understanding about how meditation worked
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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In the late 1980s and especially within the 1990s, the advent of brain imaging technology like magnetic residence imaging, MRI, or functional magnetic residence imaging was a way to look at the brain while it was active, not just to get an image of its structure, but also how it's functioning in the areas that so-called light up.