Last Updated on August 16, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
In the following video (at 15 min. the video was recorded in 2016) meditationr reseracher Antoine Lutz explains, that Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is as effective as Antidepressants:
Zindel V Segal is cognitive psychologist, specialist on depression and one of the founders of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Antoine Lutz PhD. is from the French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon. Lutz is first author of the PNAS paper about meditation:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
which is co-authored by Richard Davidson and Matthieu Ricard.