Last Updated on October 15, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
Buy an fMRI brain scanner as it was used by Richard Davidson’s group in this paper:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
A study which was performed on request of the Dalai Lama the 14. to find a scientific proof for the effect of meditation.
A PNAS paper from 2004 in which Matthieu Ricard participated as well and called a paper which might be revolutionary.
And then has lead to the book of
Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson
Altered Traits:
Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
which was published in 2017
An fMRI brain scanner which gives you nice scan data as this one:
And buy a 256 channel EEG device which was used by Richard Davidson as well, here shown in the example of Mingyur Rinpoche who participated in this study as a “guinea pig” in the laboratory:
Which gives you nice Fast Fourier Transformation (FTT) time-frequency plots:
Buy these devices if your budget allows, thes are the best devices which are on the market for meditation researchers. And if not associate with an institute which has already bought these devices since their budget has allowed it.