Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness

I the Journal of Neuroreport 2005 the researchers found that:

"Our initial results suggest that meditation may be associated with structural changes in areas of the brain that are important for sensory, cognitive and emotional processing. The data further suggest that meditation may impact agerelated declines in cortical structure."

Read more at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361002/