The “before” & “after” of Antoine Lutz – first author of the PNAS paper of 2004 «Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice?»

Last Updated on May 6, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Antoine Lutz was the first author in the paper:

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

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

PNAS paper which was published in 2004

• Does he not look the unappiest here in 2012, 7 years after the PNAS paper from 2004?:

Meditation expertise changes experience of pain

• He is listed as co-worker at the center of healthy minds in Madison:

https://centerhealthyminds.org/about/people/antoine-lutz

• but does he not look better here than «before» in 2012?

Does Antoine Lutz not look best on researchgate.net?

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antoine-Lutz

• Better than Alex Gamma on researchgate.net?

• Antoine Lutz paper looked also best on google scholar. It had 2151 citations to this date, the paper with the title:

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

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Long-term+meditators+self-induce+high-amplitude+gamma+synchrony+during+mental+practice&btnG

• Whereas Alex Gamma’s paper which is listed on researchgate.net about meditation:

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

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

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34260614

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=The+Minimal+Phenomenal+Experience+questionnaire+%28MPE-92M%29%3A+Towards+a+phenomenological+profile+of+%22pure+awareness%22+experiences+in+meditators&btnG=

Had only 38 citations to this date.