Maybe the information that isn't being conveyed is the subjective experience of being inside a brain reshaped by meditation practice?

• In experienced buddhist monks: http://www.yalescientific.org/2012/05/the-healing-art-of-meditation/
• In depressed people without prior meditation experience: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:COTR.0000045557.15923.96

Smiling Mind is an excellent and very low commitment course on the basics of mindfulness meditiation. http://smilingmind.com.au/