QDAFI on the Article about Meditation Experience

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Lazar, Sara W., et al. “Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness.” Neuroreport 16.17 (2005): 1893. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.wnr.0000186598.66243.19
Q: The researchers aim to determine if meditation practices are associated with the brain’s physical structure, specifically, increased cortical thickness.
D: The study included twenty participants. They were not monks known to utilize meditation but had received extensive insight meditation training. They were Western meditation practitioners whose practice had become a part of their daily lives despite their hectic schedules. All of the participants were in good physical and mental health. Participants’ cortical thickness was measured using magnetic resonance imaging. They had to have attended at least one week-long insight meditation retreat, which required ten hours of meditation per day. The information gathered from the tests was interpreted.
A: The researchers used previous studies as...