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Tuning out: How Brains Benefit From Meditation

By Guest PostNovember 26, 2011Health, Sciencealzheimer's disease, anxiety, areas of brain, autism, beta amyloid plaques, brain imaging study, cope with cancer, daydreaming, default mode network, experienced meditators, functional magnetic resonance imaging scans, health problems, hedy kober, how meditation works, jeremy r gray, judson a brewer, medial prefrontal, meditation, meditation techniques, patrick d worhunsky, posterior cingulate cortex, prevent psoriasis, psychiatric disorders, schizophrenia, switch off

Experienced meditators seem to be able switch off areas of the brain associated with daydreaming as well as psychiatric disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, according to a new brain imaging study by Yale researchers.

Meditation’s ability to help people stay focused on the moment has been associated with increased happiness levels, said Judson A. Brewer, assistant professor of psychiatry and lead author of the study published the week of Nov. 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Understanding how meditation works will aid investigation into a host of diseases, he said. (more…)

New Genetic Clues for Schizophrenia

By Guest PostJuly 16, 2011Healthgenetic errors, mutations in schizophrenia, schizophrenia, schizophrenic patients

De novo mutations – genetic errors that are present in patients but not in their parents – are more frequent in schizophrenic patients than in normal individuals, according to an international group of scientists led by Dr. Guy A. Rouleau of the University of Montreal and CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital. The discovery, published today in Nature Genetics, may enable researchers to define how the disease results from these mutations and eventually develop new treatments for it. (more…)

Does Sex Matter? It May When Evaluating Mental Status

By Guest PostNovember 20, 20101 commentHealthbrain abnormalities, brain function, schizophrenia, sex differences, sexual dimorphism

Adrianna Mendrek. Image credit : University of Montreal

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that differs between the sexes in terms of age at onset, symptomatology, response to medication, and structural brain abnormalities.

Now, a new study from the Université de Montréal shows that there is gender difference between men and women’s mental ability – with women performing better than men. These findings, published recently in, Schizophrenia Research, have implications for the more than 300 000 affected Canadians.

“We are the first to report sex differences in brain function of schizophrenics,” says Université de Montréal professor, Adrianna Mendrek a researcher at the Centre de Recherche Fernand-Seguin, Hospital Louis-H Lafontaine. “We chose to study a task involving mental rotation of a three dimensional image because in healthy men and women, this consistently elicits differences in terms of reaction time and performance accuracy.” (more…)

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Tuning out: How Brains Benefit From Meditation

New Genetic Clues for Schizophrenia

Does Sex Matter? It May When Evaluating Mental Status