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In 2005, Sara Lazar at Harvard found that experienced meditators had measurably thicker cortex in regions associated with attention and interoception — and that the thickness correlated with years of practice, not age. A year later the same group confirmed the finding with a larger sample. Since then, hundreds of neuroimaging studies have examined meditation's effects on brain structure and function, with results that are genuinely interesting, frequently overstated, and worth reading carefully. The brain does change. The question is how much, in whom, through what mechanism, and whether those changes explain the psychological effects people report.

The psychology of creativity explained: divergent thinking, the default mode network, the incubation effect, why the right-brain myth is wrong, and how constraints paradoxically boost creative output.

The Default Mode Network activates when you're not focused on the world. What it is, what it does, and why depression, Alzheimer's, and psychedelics all touch it.