John W. Thomas

A Methodological Review of Meditation Research

Frontiers in Psychiatry July 1, 2014 John W. Thomas, Marc Cohen 70 citations

Despite over 50 years of research into the states of consciousness induced by various meditation practices, no clear neurophysiological signatures of these states have been found. Much of this failure can be attributed to the narrow range of variables examined in most meditation studies, with the focus being restricted to a search for correlations between neurophysiological measures and...