Neurosientist’s Christof Koch’s interest in meditation published on his personal website

Last Updated on December 28, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Neuroscientist Christof Koch shows also interest in meditation and the Dalai Lama the 14. as we can see on his wordpress site. He describes his encounter with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the scientific study of meditation in a Tibetan Monastery in India:

The Brain of Buddha

https://christofkoch.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/cr-brain-buddha-13.pdf

The article was published in Scientific American in August 2013 as well. Christof Koch reviews in Scientific American and on his wordpress site a paper which we reviewed on our wordpress site as well, and that is a paper of the group of Richard Davidsons group about gamma waves in the brain of meditators:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101

But which of the devices Rob ter Horst PhD. and Coady Rall, M.D. tested and reviewed on their personal YouTube channels could be also of interest for the private mediation project of Christof Koch? We reviewed many of the devices Rob ter Horst PhD. and Coady Rall, M.D tested and reviewed as well on our wordpress site.

But of the many devices what remains for us personally is basically only what we evaluated here:

091. Low-cost high-quality ECG & EEG devices which offer validation papers

And this needs to be further tested and confirmed before we can suggest Christof Koch to use these devices for his private project meditation.

Another device is the Polar H7 chest strap for heart rate variablity tested an promoted by Marco Altini on his personal website:

https://www.marcoaltini.com/

And reviewed on the wordpress site of Peter Gamma as well:

Heart rate variablity, one of the rare parameters which can be measured with consumer grade heart rate monitors such as the Polar H7 chest strap & is validated in a scientific paper (with co-author Marco Altini, PhD.)