The latest edition of Harvard Medical School's Healthbeat endorsed yoga for its widely known mental health benefits such as alleviating anxiety and depression and also recognized it for its lesser known attribute of improving brain functionality. Harvard Healthbeat even emphasizes that this helps people as they age. As anyone who practices yoga can tell you, yoga does indeed enhance your cognitive capabilities, learning new skills, and memorization.
"Studies using MRI scans and other brain imaging technology have shown that people who regularly did yoga had a thicker cerebral cortex (the area of the brain responsible for information processing) and hippocampus (the area of the brain involved in learning and memory compared with nonpractioners. These areas of the brain typically shrink as you age, but the older practitioners showed less shrinkage than those who did no yoga. This suggests yoga may counter-act age-related declines in memory and other cognitive skills.
"Research also shows that yoga and meditation may improve executive functions such as reasoning, decision making, memory, learning, reaction time, and accuracy on tests of mental accuity." - Harvard Healthbeat, August 21, 2021
"Studies using MRI scans and other brain imaging technology have shown that people who regularly did yoga had a thicker cerebral cortex (the area of the brain responsible for information processing) and hippocampus (the area of the brain involved in learning and memory compared with nonpractioners. These areas of the brain typically shrink as you age, but the older practitioners showed less shrinkage than those who did no yoga. This suggests yoga may counter-act age-related declines in memory and other cognitive skills.
"Research also shows that yoga and meditation may improve executive functions such as reasoning, decision making, memory, learning, reaction time, and accuracy on tests of mental accuity." - Harvard Healthbeat, August 21, 2021
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