Researchers at UCLA have been studying the effects of meditation on the brain for many years. Among other things, they found that those who meditate for several years have altered the amount of gray matter and the connections between neurons have become faster. Professor Eileen Luders, an assistant at ucla Imaging Neuro Laboratory, and his colleagues, found that in the long run, meditators have a higher number of circumvolutions ("folds" of the cortex, which allows the brain to