Dr. John Rubenstein spoke at the University of California's MIND Institute last month discussing signaling and growth patterns in the brain. He spoke of how certain disorders may have to do with excited neurons that are not able to be inhibited by the surrounding inhibitory cells. The neurons are firing 'noise', unnecessary uninhibited extra electrical activity. One of the IM research results presented a few years back spoke about this exact phenomenon in children with attentional challenges. Children with attentional challenges tend to have extra 'noise' in their brains. After IM training this noise became quieter, closer to the typical populations amounts of noise.
Dr. Rubenstein has also identified Fgf's that especially impact the frontal lobes and the cerebellum. Many IM gains seems to be related to gains in frontal lobe and cerebellum functioning. I believe IM helps to reconnect connectivity issues through out the brain, but especially in the frontal lobes (in charge of planning, sequencing, time management, organizing, inhibiting, all called executive functions) and cerebellum (the movement area).
