"Davidson’s team flew in monks from Tibet & Nepal for the study and asked them to meditate while undergoing EEG, MRI & FMRI scans. When they 1st looked at the scans, Davidson said the results were so shocking, he thought the equipment was malfunctioning.
“What we saw in these individuals, not a burst of gamma, but a long duration [of activity] for minutes while they were meditating, which is crazy,”....
“This had never been seen in a human brain before.” Typically in an “untrained mind,” a burst of activity would last for about 1 second, but the monks could sustain it .... https://www.ideapod.com
