Meditation can help people overcome Alzheimer’s: IIIT-Hyderabd study
The Hindu
Through meditation, one is taught to increase one’s focus and to consciously disengage from floating thoughts.
Simple home-based meditation can change the brain structure and increase grey matter content in patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), reveals a study of the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH).
The study which was carried out as part of DST’s Science and Technology of Yoga And Meditation (SATYAM) programme under its Cognitive Science Research Initiative saw Apollo Multispeciality Hospital, Kolkat, recruiting patients based on Neuro-psychological assessments and IIITH doing the image processing and analysis of the brain images.
The clinical team recruited patients with MCI or mild Alzheimer’s disease and assigned them into Meditation and Control groups. Before the start of the experimental period, both groups had MRI scans of their brain taken.
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