Your Brain on Yoga
Recently American Neuroscientists have began testing the effects of a meditative yoga practice. Here are some of their findings:
Brain scans of regular practitioners showed unsurpassed neural activity in circuits involving
maternal love (caudate), empathy (right insula), and feelings of joy
and happiness (left prefrontal cortex).
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine and McLean
Hospital have found that practicing yoga may elevate brain
gamma-aminobutyric (GABA) levels, the brain’s primary inhibitory
neurotransmitter. The findings suggest that the practice of yoga is a promising treatment for depression and anxiety, disorders
associated with low GABA levels.
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