Thursday, June 02, 2005

Scientific study of Buddhist meditation

I just stumbled on an interesting scientific article published last year in a prestigeous journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, on neurological study of Buddhist monks' meditation. The article entitled

Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice, published in
PNAS 101(46), 16369-16373, November 16, 2004 by
Antoine Lutz , Lawrence L. Greischar , Nancy B. Rawlings , Matthieu Ricard and Richard J. Davidson

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/101/46/16369

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