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Meditation holds the potential to help treat children suffering from traumas, difficult diagnoses or other stressors – a behavioral neuroscientist explains

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Children actively meditating experience lower activity in parts of the brain involved in rumination, mind-wandering and depression.

Hilary A. Marusak and Aneesh Hehr led the study in the first brain-imaging study of young people under 18 years old .

They found meditation techniques were more effective than distraction at quelling activity in that network.

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