Table 1 Demographics
From: Reduced age-associated brain changes in expert meditators: a multimodal neuroimaging pilot study
Healthy controls | Elderly expert meditators | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Whole sample | Elderly controls | Education-matched Aβneg elderly subgroup | ||
Sample size | 186 | 67 | 31 | 6 |
Age mean ± SD (range) | 49.1 ± 18.7 (20–85) | 64.8 ± 6.4 (55–75) | 64.5 ± 6.9 (55–75) | 64.8 ± 3.2 (61–70) |
Education mean ± SD (range) | 13.1 ± 3.2 (7–20) | 12.1 ± 3.7* (7–20) | 15.1 ± 2.6 (12–20) | 16.2 ± 2.7 (12–20) |
N females/males | 97/89 | 38/29 | 20/11 | 3/3 |
MMSE mean ± SD (range) | — | 29.1 ± 1.0 (26–30) | 29.2 ± 1.0 (26–30) | 29.5 ± 0.8 (28–30) |
