This post was written by admin on May 11, 2009
Posted Under: Meditation

The effects provided by meditation techniques are currently being done by various work teams. Thus, the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin used the IRMN and the EEG to identify regions of the brain activated during stressful situations, ie the amygdala and cortex pre-frontal right, apparently opposite to pre-frontal cortex left, who knows, meanwhile, increased activity during times of calm. Researchers from the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience had the opportunity to test with a Tibetan lama with their technique of localization of brain activity and found it at the highest value ever measured in the 'left hemisphere of a human being. This work was continued in collaboration with the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in

Worcester. The results will be presented shortly in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. One significant outcome of these studies is the collaboration between the Dalai Lama and a group of researchers who met for the first time in 2000 and will meet again during next fall, under the auspices of the Mind and Life Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (www.InvestigatingTheMind.org) to hold the result of these studies. This is a scientific framework for performing a partial transfer of cerebral monitoring techniques developed by Buddhist monks followed the volunteers in laboratory experiments

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