20 years after the study “Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice” (part III) – contradictory scientific findings about localized gamma wave activity during mental practice?

Last Updated on April 22, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

«Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice»

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

PNAS paper which was published in 2004

Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk with a PhD. in Cellular Genetics who participated in this study called this paper a paper which might be revolutionary. Revolutionary enouth that he hoped that it would be published in Nature.

At 16:40 in the following video Matthieu Ricard sais: “a paper has been submitted to Nature, hopefully it will be accepted:”

But the paper was not accepted by Nature. The scientific data presented in this video by Matthieu Ricard who participated in this study as a gunea pig who was as a co-author was published in PNAS in 2004

Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org

001. Director Peter Gamma

calls this paper revolutionary, since it was revolutionary for him personally and his life. And he founded as a consequence the Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS) in 2019:

002. Facilities

And as a consequence of the PNAS paper from 2004, the Meditation Research Institute at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in India was founded in in 2005.

The Meditation Research Institute at Swami Rama Sadhaka Grama in India has published scientific papers about meditation up to 2017, with for instance the authors:

EEGLAB developer Arnaud Delorme
&
Psychiatrist and Neuroscientist Rael B. Cahn, MD. PhD.

which published the paper:

Increased Gamma Brainwave Amplitude Compared to Control in Three Different Meditation Traditions:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Increased+Gamma+Brainwave+Amplitude+Compared+to+Control+in+Three+Different+Meditation+Traditions+&btnG=

published in PLOS ONE in 2017

In this paper gamma wave activity in the parieto-occipital area where observed induced by practicing meditation.

In contrast to this, in the PNAS paper from 2004 changes where observed in the left prefrontal lobe during practicing meditation.

Do we not have basically contradictory findings in these two papers about mind training? and localized gamma wave activity? And if so, what can we say then about the scientific revolution 20 years before Matthieu Ricard was talking about? Is the quality of this scientific revolution higher than the quality of products from VEDIA Switzerland, 50 years after VEDIA Switzerland has started?

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