Harvard Medical School
Yale Medical School
University of Virginia Medical Center
University of Chicago Medical School
University of Michigan Medical School
UCLA Medical School
University of Southern California Medical School
Stanford Medical School
University of California at San Francisco Medical School
Universities Conducting NIH-funded Research on Transcendental Meditation
Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles
The effects of Transcendental Meditation on cardiovascular disease in coronary heart disease patients with metabolic syndrome (published in the American Medical Association’s Archives of Internal Medicine, July 2006).
Howard University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta
The effects of Transcendental Meditation in older African American women at risk for heart disease (findings presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, March 2006).
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles
(1) A study on the mechanisms of atherosclerosis—the effects of Transcendental Meditation on the sympathetic nervous system and the functioning of the arterial endothelium in African Americans; and (2) The effects of Transcendental Meditation on carotid atherosclerosis (published in the American Heart Association’s Stroke, March 2000).
University of California, Irvine
The effects of Transcendental Meditation on brain functioning, stress, and pain as shown by magnetic resonance imaging (published in Neuroreport, August 2006).
The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- The effects of Transcendental Meditation on the prevention of hypertension in African Americans; and
- The effects of Transcendental Meditation on morbidity and mortality in African Americans with heart disease
- Update: The NIH recently awarded another $2 million to continue the study for another four years (for a total of 8 years)
University of Iowa
The effects of the multimodality approach of TM and Ayurvedic medicine on coronary disease (findings presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, March 2006).
University of Pennsylvania
The effects of Transcendental Meditation on congestive heart failure (published in Ethnicity and Disease, 2007).
University of Hawaii
The effects of Transcendental Meditation in slowing hardening of the arteries in older, high-risk native Hawaiians (submitted for publication).
Research Conducted at Medical Schools Nationwide
The following U.S. medical schools have conducted independent research on the Transcendental Meditation technique.
- Harvard Medical School
- University of Virginia Medical Center
- University of Michigan Medical School
- Yale Medical School
- University of Chicago Medical School
- University of Southern California Medical School
- Stanford Medical School
- UCLA Medical School
- University of California at San Francisco Medical School