Detection of nighttime melatonin level in Chinese Original Quiet Sitting.
Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi October 2010 Chien-Hui Liou, Chang-Wei Hsieh, Chao-Hsien Hsieh et al.
Some research has shown that melatonin levels increase after meditation practices, but other research has shown that they do not. In our previous functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we found positive activation of the pineal body during Chinese Original Quiet Sitting (COQS). To find other supporting evidence for pineal activation, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of...