Transcendental Meditation activates default mode network, the brain's natural ground state
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 13:21
in Psychology & Sociology
A new EEG study conducted on college students at American University found they could more highly activate the default mode network, a suggested natural "ground state" of the brain, during their practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique. This three-month randomized control study is published in a special issue of Cognitive Processing dedicated to the Neuroscience of Meditation and Consciousness, Volume 11, Number 1, February, 2010.