Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density

@article{Hlzel2011MindfulnessPL,
  title={Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density},
  author={Britta K. H{\"o}lzel and James F. Carmody and Mark G. Vangel and Christina Congleton and Sita Maha Yerramsetti and Tim Gard and Sara W. Lazar},
  journal={Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging},
  year={2011},
  volume={191},
  pages={36-43}
}
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