Buddhist meditation used in Thai cave soccer team ordeal

According to Vox, the soccer team's coach taught them to meditate to help them keep calm and preserve their energy during their two-week ordeal.

You really are on the same wavelength with your friends

Researchers from UCLA and Dartmouth College are able to have a computer program determine with 48% accuracy friendships between two people based on neural similarities.  Accuracies of identifying a friend of a friend were at 39%, friend of a friend of a friend at 31%, and friendships further removed than that at 47%.  When the program was wrong, it was usually only off by one category.

Why Meditate? Change your Brain's Default Mode

I came across this on YouTube the other evening and thought that this might be of interest for others.

The parts of the brain involved in dreaming

Scientists have identified the parts of the brain that are involved in dreaming.  Dreams don't just happen in REM sleep and changes in brain activity offer clues to what the dream is about.

Brain activity recorded after death

In Canada, doctors observed delta waves in one patient more than 10 minutes after doctors confirmed the patient's death.

The mind isn't limited to the body

Scientists say your “mind” isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body from Quartz feels more like a hidden advertisement for a professor's new book than anything with solid research, but it presents the idea that the mind goes beyond the brain.

Meditation can change the brains of ordinary people and improve their health

A study published in Biological Psychiatry shows that meditation can change the brains of ordinary people and improve their health.  There's an indication in the article that other studies have not had "scientific thoroughness", but I don't know if that claim is true or not.