Meditation Increases the Entropy of Brain Oscillatory Activity
Neuroscience February 4, 2020 Rocío Martínez Vivot, Carla Pallavicini, Federico Zamberlán et al. 116 citations
We address the hypothesis that the entropy of neural dynamics indexes the intensity and quality of conscious content. Previous work established that serotonergic psychedelics can have a dysregulating effect on brain activity, leading to subjective effects that present a considerable overlap with the phenomenology of certain meditative states. Here we propose that the prolonged practice of...