Last Updated on January 21, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
was published in 2004 in PNAS. Was it not triggered by the Dalai Lama the 14 th?
And what where practical applications of this paper? Peter Gamma from www.petergammr.org is asking:
Was a «practical application» of this paper the best-selling book of Matthieu Ricard about “Happiness”?:
But what has been left of this meditation research project in 2025, for instance in Switzerland?
We can fruthermore buy Richard R. Davidsons book “Altered Traits” which was released in 2018 in Switzerland from Orell Füssli:
But has the PNAS paper about meditation of Richard R. Davidson from 2004 not something in commom with papers of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio about commercially available heart rate monitors, and that is that these scientific studies have hardly been reproduced?
Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org has reviewed about consumer grade heart rate monitors:
The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio has published basically two papers about smartwatch accuracy, and then they stopped writing papers about this topic. The Cleveland Clinic does research which is internationally at the highest level. And so is the research of neuroscientist Richard R. Davidson. But where do we find follow-up papers of the PNAS paper from 2004 mentioned above which continue the work which has been started in 2004? And we do not mean papers published in PLOS ONE or in other journals which basically accept everything. We mean papers in Nature, Science and PNAS, with author such as Richard R. Davidson.
Richard Davidson, who is an American psychologist and professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as well as founder and chair of the Center for Healthy Minds and the affiliated non-profit Healthy Minds Innovations.