Want to stay attentive in your old age? Start doing meditation. Regular and intensive sessions over the course of a lifetime may help you to stay focussed and attentive even in advanced years according to a new study. This study is the first to offer evidence that intensive and continued meditation practice is associated with enduring improvements in sustained attention and response inhibition said lead author of the study Anthony Zanesco now at the University of Miami. Meditation has the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a person's life Zanesco added. The research evaluates the benefits that people