Last Updated on April 29, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Alex Gamma. PhD.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alex-Gamma
- Trained biologist
- Neuroscience of drug-induced altered states of consciousness.
- Neuroimaging,
- EEG/ERP and subjective experience.
- Applied statistics in psychiatric epidemiology and clinical psychiatry (ADHD).
- Philosophy of science: theories of consciousness, evolutionary biology, neurodeterminism, behavioral genetics / heritability, personalized medicine.
Alex Gamma’s PLOS ONE paper about “pure awareness” experiences in meditators:
«The Minimal Phenomenal Experience questionnaire (MPE-92M): Towards a phenomenological profile of “pure awareness” experiences in meditators»
Martin Lindner reports about the findings of the PLOS ONE paper in a NZZ Zurich article:
«Meditation: The ego experience fades while the mind is wide awake»
Martin Lindner writes in the NZZ about Alex Gamma’s findings he published in PLOS ONE:
- «Last year, Metzinger and neuropsychiatrist Alex Gamma in Zurich published the first online study of meditators worldwide in the journal “Plos One”.
- The two researchers tried to record the presumed minimal consciousness in as much detail as possible using an extensive questionnaire.
- Many of the remarkable answers can now be found in Metzinger’s book.»
Prof. Thomas Metzinger is last author of the PLOS ONE paper he published together with Alex Gamma:
- Thomas Metzinger is full professor and director of the theoretical philosophy group and the research group on neuroethics/neurophilosophy at the department of philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.