Swiss biologist Alex Gamma, PhD. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich scientifically studied the effect of Psylocibin & Meditation

Last Updated on April 29, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Alex Gamma, PhD is presently co-worker at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology:

https://ee.ethz.ch/de/departement/personen-a-bis-z/person-detail.MTMwNzkw.TGlzdC8zMjc5LC0xNjUwNTg5ODIw.html

He studied biology at the University of Zurich with Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Wehner. He also did scientific studies about the effect of Psilocybin, which was for instance published in the following PLOS ONE paper:

Prediction of psilocybin response in healthy volunteers

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22363492

Last author of this paper about this paper about Psilocybin is Franz X Vollenweider, Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology and Brain Imaging Unit at the University of Zurich:

https://mind-foundation.org/team/franz-vollenweider

Franz X Vollenweider did also research about Psylocibin with Zen priest an million heir Vanja Palmers in Zurich. But Alex Gamma PhD. gave also talks at Swiss TV about the effect of Extasy (MDMA ) as shown in this video:

https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/schlips/video/party-kids-interview-alex-gamma?urn=urn:srf:video:1c6dc771-9c02-4b5c-88ec-34fac3c0e6d1

But in the year 2021 Alex Gamma became a meditation researcher and published a paper about meditators and pure awareness in PLOS ONE:

The Minimal Phenomenal Experience questionnaire (MPE-92M): Towards a phenomenological profile of “pure awareness” experiences in meditators

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0253694

Alex Gamma, PhD.:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alex-Gamma

And Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org hopes to read more papers from Alex Gamma, PhD about the effect of Psylocibin and meditation in the future.