Projects which show the long-term effect of meditation on individual subjects
One secret meditation research project could be the one of the first author of this PNAS paper from 2004 Antoine Lutz:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
Beginning of the scientifc study with Antoine Lutz:

End of scientifc study with Antoine Lutz:

We have shown some other pictures of some other persons under www.petergamma.org.
- These changes could have to do something with their work and their private interest in meditation research.
- But it could also have to do something with the devices they use, for instance brain sanners in the example of Antoine Lutz and they tested those on themselves.