Category Archives: Aging
Placebo effect in surgery

Historically, scientists have believed that the placebo effect didn’t have any role in surgery. It has been long thought that the placebo was a suggestion more related to mental effect than otherwise. But things changed with a study [1] carried out in Australia that was surprising. It was about to validate…
Meditation induces changes in the brain.

In a study on meditation noted that participation in a MBSR meditation program was associated with changes in the concentration of gray matter in brain regions involved in learning and memory , emotional regulation , self-referential processing , and perspective taking [1]. The researcher who has helped to formalize…