Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG.
Neuroscience of Consciousness 2025 Annalisa Pascarella, Philipp Thölke, David Meunier et al.
While the beneficial impacts of meditation are increasingly acknowledged, its underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. We examined the electrophysiological brain signals of expert Buddhist monks during two established meditation methods known as Samatha and Vipassana, which employ focused attention and open-monitoring technique. By combining source-space magnetoencephalography...