01-03-2013, 07:50 PM
(01-03-2013, 04:38 PM)Liet Wrote: nop (apart from the fact that functional differences in the various brain areas are responsible for your mental health)
Brain functions and structures account for some portion of the explanation of mental illness. We are not yet at a point in our understanding to be able to explain mental illness using brain structure and function, for that would be taking a reductionist approach to a phenomenon that is biological, social, and psychological. The problems with these studies is that they are cross-sectional studies and not longitudinal, therefore we only get a snap-shot picture of what happens to the brain when we engage in meditation. That's not to say tho, that meditation has no positive effects whatsoever.