Is meditation associated with altered brain structure? A systematic review and meta-analysis of morphometric neuroimaging in meditation practitioners.

By Kieran C. R. Fox, Savannah Nijeboer, Matthew L. Dixon, James L Floman, Melissa Ellamil, Samuel P Rumak, Peter Sedlmeier, Kalina Christoff. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2014

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Reconstructing and deconstructing the self: cognitive mechanisms in meditation practice. (2015, background): “As recently reviewed, mindfulness-related practices have been shown to train many of the attentional processes described above and to induce functional and structural changes in attention-related networks in the brain [9,44].”
Behavioural Brain Research (2016, neutral): “In this control study, rats were trained on a non-spatial go/no-go task involving the discrimination of different cups containing distinct digging media”
Contemplating Mindfulness at Work (2016, background): “Meta-analysis links mindfulness training to alterations in brain regions associated with attention, memory, self, and emotion regulation (Fox et al., 2014).”
Enhancing attention through training (2015, background): “Consistent structural changes found in a metaanalysis [34 ] are in the ACC and insula parts of the executive attention network [7].”
Mind The Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation (2017, neutral): “Such findings, when supported by results from meta-analyses of multiple studies, are less likely to have stemmed merely from artifacts (Fox et al., 2016; Fox et al., 2014).”