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

Table 2

VBM analyses of great matter volume differences between yoga meditation practitioners and controls.


Yogis > controls					TAL		Cluster size (mm³)	(max)
Hemisphere	Lobe	Brain region	Brodmann area				Cluster size (mm³)	(max)

R	Frontal	Orbital frontal gyrus	25/47	6	18	−19	3176	4.37
L	Frontal	Orbital frontal gyrus	11/47	−22	12	−21	4280	4.14
L	Frontal	Precentral/middle frontal gyrus	4/6	−45	−11	50	5448	4.22
L	Limbic	Parahippocampal gyrus/hippocampus	36	−34	−30	−16	4008	3.65
L	Limbic	Insula		−34	15	3	3096	3.43
L	Temporal	Superior temporal gyrus	38	−48	−6	−10	5016	4.50
R	Occipital	Lingual gyrus	18/19	12	−82	−7	10968	4.56
L	Cerebellum	Posterior		−1	−64	−28	3568	4.54
L	Cerebellum	Anterior		−30	−38	−26	4544	3.59

Controls > yogis

		None