Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs

2 papers found

• 1975· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 1
  Jevning, R.; Wilson, A.; Vanderlaan, E.; and Levine, S. Plasma prolactin and cortisol during Transcendental Meditation. Findings also published in The Endocrine Society Program 57th Annual Meeting, New York City, 18–20 June 1975, p. 257 (abstract).

  Plasma cortisol, an important biochemical indication of stress, decreased during the Transcendental Meditation technique, and plasma prolactin increased after the technique.

  • During the Practice—Biochemical: Decreased Plasma Cortisol
  • During the Practice—Biochemical: Small Increase in Plasma Prolactin Immediately following Practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique
• 1978· Psychosomatic Medicine· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 3
  Jevning, R.; Wilson, A. F.; and Vanderlaan, E. F. Plasma prolactin and growth hormone during meditation. Psychosomatic Medicine 40(4): 329–333, 1978.

  Plasma prolactin was found to increase in both short- and long-term practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation technique either towards the end or shortly after the practice.

  • Biochemical: Small Increase in Plasma Prolactin following the Transcendental Meditation technique