"They had improvements of about 10 or 15 percent," Newberg says.

他们的记忆力提高了百分之十或十五。

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At the end of the eight weeks, they came back for another scan, and Newberg found some dramatic differences.

8周后Newberg对他们的大脑进行重新扫描，他发现了一些显著的差异。

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Those questions, Dr. Andrew Newberg has scanned the brains of praying nuns, chanting Sikhs and meditating Buddhists.

为了解答这些问题，Andrew Newberg博士扫描了一些特殊人群的大脑，包括祈祷的修女、唱颂歌的锡克教徒以及正在沉思的佛教徒。

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"There are plenty of religious people who die young and plenty of atheists who live to 103, " said Dr. Andrew Newberg, director of research at the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University.

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Andy Newberg, MD at the University of Pennsylvania has found that both in meditating monks and in praying nuns, areas of the brain important in concentration and attention were activated, while areas that govern how a person relates to the external world were deactivated.

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