'Experts' Link Spirituality To Mental Illness

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To give a more honest and descriptive view of this whole thing, as most studies tend to not meassure the benefits of having the things attained through the tradeoff, just what is lost.
...heres a study meassuring the brains surface thickness.

Is there a connection between this particular study and the study on meditation's effect on brain structures?

nop (apart from the fact that functional differences in the various brain areas are responsible for your mental health)