Science of Meditation thread
10 years 3 months ago - 10 years 3 months ago #99253
by Femtosecond
Science of Meditation thread was created by Femtosecond
I thought it would be a real neat thing to have a dedicated thread (like random dharma) for bringing in and discussing scientific research concerning meditation. This is it!
To kick it off, one that I find pretty interesting is one from a presentation I saw at ISCS last year where they measured how brain activity responds when you look someone in the eyes.
I don't have a link to show, but I remember it pretty well and it was that when someone looks someone else in the eyes, their brain activity changes from baseline, and then when they look away, there is a certain amount of time it takes to return to baseline brain activity. The interesting contribution of this study was that older meditators, 80 years old and so forth, showed a return time that was faster than 20 year old control groups. This is pretty cool, considering that the return time tends to increase with age, and with the extent someone is depressed. So 80 year old meditators are outperforming people who are in their prime...
Please post anything you find interesting and worthy of discussion or awareness
To kick it off, one that I find pretty interesting is one from a presentation I saw at ISCS last year where they measured how brain activity responds when you look someone in the eyes.
I don't have a link to show, but I remember it pretty well and it was that when someone looks someone else in the eyes, their brain activity changes from baseline, and then when they look away, there is a certain amount of time it takes to return to baseline brain activity. The interesting contribution of this study was that older meditators, 80 years old and so forth, showed a return time that was faster than 20 year old control groups. This is pretty cool, considering that the return time tends to increase with age, and with the extent someone is depressed. So 80 year old meditators are outperforming people who are in their prime...
Please post anything you find interesting and worthy of discussion or awareness
