This study is not too technical, but reviews a lot of the research that has been done about meditation, then adds an experiment where people effectively calmed their neurologic reactivity by meditating 20 minutes a day.

Frontiers | Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

I thought someone else might find it interesting as well