Infante et al., 2001

Infante, Jose Rafael; Torres-Avisbal, Miguel; Pinel, Pilar; Vallejo, Juan Antonio; Peran, Fernando; Gonzalez, Francisco; Contreras, Pablo; Pacheco, Carmen; Roldan, Ana; and Latrea, Jose Maria. Catecholamine levels in practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation technique. Physiology & Behavior 72: 141–146, 2001.

Individuals participating in the Transcendental Meditation program, and in some cases the advanced TM-Sidhi program, displayed in contrast to control subjects significantly lower morning and evening levels of norepinephrine and morning levels of epinephrine. Also in contrast to controls, the morning and evening levels of both norepinephrine and epinephrine were comparable among those participating in the Transcendental Meditation program, indicating absence of a typical diurnal rhythm. The authors suggest that the results may be due to lower hormone response to daily stress and lower sympathetic nervous system tone among the Transcendental Meditation program group.

Year

2001

Journal

Physiology & Behavior

Publication type

Journal

Paper type

Empirical

Collected Papers

Vol. 7, pp. 4604–4610

Section

Metabolic, Biochemical, and Cardiovascular Changes

Findings (1)

Authors

• Jose Rafael Infante, PhD

  Reina Sofa Hospital, Cordoba, Spain

• Miguel Torres-Avisbal, PhD

  Reina Sofa Hospital, Cordoba, Spain

• Juan Antonio Vallejo, MD

  Reina Sofa Hospital, Cordoba, Spain

• Francisco Gonzalez, MD

  Reina Sofa Hospital, Cordoba, Spain

• Pablo Contreras, MD

  Reina Sofa Hospital, Cordoba, Spain

• Carmen Pacheco, MD

  Reina Sofa Hospital, Cordoba, Spain

• Jose María Latrea, PhD

  Reina Sofa Hospital, Cordoba, Spain

• Pilar Pinel, MD

  Virgen de las Nieves Hospital, Granada, Spain

• Fernando Peran, PhD

  Virgen de las Nieves Hospital, Granada, Spain

• Ana Roldan, MD

  Virgen de las Nieves Hospital, Granada, Spain