it's not the size of your cortex, but how you use it...

[octet]

Hey folks,

Thought you may be interested to play with a very nice, and very free,
bit of 3-D brain visualization software:

http://www.brainvoyager.com/BrainTutor.html

(apologies if this has been posted here before)

I used it in the presentation I just gave last wed. on "The
Psychoneuroimmunology of Meditation"

We focused on these two studies:

Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation:

http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/content/full/65/4/564 (also
available in pdf)

and

Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness
http://lazar-meditation-research.info/Lazar_Meditation_Plasticity_05.pdf (<-pdf)

It went well enough that I'd like to expand it with more studies
(Ekman, J K-Z, etc.) and put together a video -- a kind of multiledia
journal review, including on the disc all of the (freely available)
papers referenced.

Any ideas on what else to include in such a package?