Regular and intensive meditation may help you stay focussed and attentive during old age shows new study.

‘Intensive and continued meditation practice is associated with enduring improvements in sustained attention and focus.’

"Meditation has the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a person’s life," Zanesco added. 




The research evaluates the benefits that people gained after three months of full-time meditation training and whether these benefits are maintained seven years later.
This study, published in the Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, follows up on previous work by the same group of researchers at the University of California in 2011.
The 2011 study assessed the cognitive abilities of a group of people who regularly meditated before and after they went on a three-month-long retreat.
After the first group’s initial retreat was over, the second group received similar intensive training.
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During the last appraisal, participants were asked to estimate how much time over the course of seven years they had spent meditating outside of formal retreat settings, such as through daily or non-intensive practice.
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The participants again completed assessments designed to measure their reaction time and ability to pay attention to a task.
Source-IANS