Yoga Meditation Practitioners Exhibit Greater Gray Matter Volume and Fewer Reported Cognitive Failures: Results of a Preliminary Voxel-Based Morphometric Analysis

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="821307.fig.001a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ecam/volume-2012/821307/figures/821307.fig.001a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>  Left OFC</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="821307.fig.001b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ecam/volume-2012/821307/figures/821307.fig.001b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b> Right OFC</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Gray matter volume (GMV) was greater in yoga mediation practitioners as compared to controls  in (a) left orbital frontal cortex (OFC; −22, 12, −21) and (b) right  OFC (6, 18, −19). OFC GMV was negatively correlated with self-reported cognitive failures.</table>

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Figure 1: Yoga Meditation Practitioners Exhibit Greater Gray Matter Volume and Fewer Reported Cognitive Failures: Results of a Preliminary Voxel-Based Morphometric Analysis 

Figure 1 | Yoga Meditation Practitioners Exhibit Greater Gray Matter Volume and Fewer Reported Cognitive Failures: Results of a Preliminary Voxel-Based Morphometric Analysis 