this is thorsten barnhofer, professor of clinical psychology at surrey university.y running a study on the effects of mindfulness in managing stress and difficult emotions. he's also been looking into how mindfulness changes the actual structure of the brain itself, showing signs of this neuroplastic rewiring even after just a few weeks. and what makes mindfulness especially impactful is that by reducing stress, it allows even more plasticity to take place. but will it work on my brain? we're about to enter the fmri scanner to see what my brain looks like from the inside. i'm getting my brain scan before and after a period of doing just 30 minutes of meditation a day. hi, melissa. how are you? yeah, good. so all you need to do is just relax, try to keep still and look at the fixation cross. 0k. and it'll last for about 15 minutes. right, so that's quite a long time. but what exactly is neuroplasticity? plasticity is the ability of the brain to change based on stimuli that it's given. these are the basis - of learning and memory. it's a really dynamic process that in