EP69: Beyond Quiet: How Meditation Rewires Your Brain for High-Level Flexibility

Ever feel like your brain is running too many background apps? In neuroscience, this manifests as "neural noise" or the $1/f$ slope. When this slope is too steep, your mental energy is wasted on static, leading to that chronic feeling of brain fog. References: [1] Pascarella, A., Thölke, P., Meunier, D., O'Byrne, J., Lajnef, T., Raffone, A., Guidotti, R., Pizzella, V., Marzetti, L., & Jerbi, K. (2025). Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2025(1), niaf047. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaf047 -- Hosting provided by SoundOn