We have discussed this topic previously:

https://petergamma.org/are-we-at-the-end-of-the-meditation-research-project-now-it-is-just-the-beginning-of-a-nobel-price-topic/

20 years ago, Matthieu Ricard rose high expectations with his TED talk:

But Ricard gave his talk a TED, and not at the Federal Insitute of Technology in Zurich. And 20 years after Matthieu Ricard gave TED this talk, we are critical about Matthieu Ricard and Richard R. Davidson. Was what they did during the last 20 years the plan of some economists:

Primarily to sell as many best-selling books as possible? But did they not mix up Buddhist teachings with scientific studies? But if we have a closer look at these scientific studies, do we not have to conclude that the current scientific tools in 2026 as well as the current scientific studies are too limited to find scientific answers at the level of a Nobel Prize Topic?