Short-term meditation training alters brain activity and sympathetic responses at rest, but not during meditation [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Although more people are engaging in meditation practices that require specialized training, few studies address the issues associated with nervous activity pattern changes brought about by such training.
Anna Rusinova +2 more
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Effects of Tummo Meditation and Niguma Yoga on Brain Activity. [PDF]
Hawaii J Health Soc WelfHatha yoga, Qigong, Tai Chi, all ancient practices of the mind, continue to be studied and recognized for their mental and spiritual benefits. However, Tummo meditation and Niguma yoga, ancient practices with origins in the 8th and 11th centuries from the Himalayan Vajrayana tradition, remain obscure and have yet to be disseminated and studied ...
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Evaluating Brain Activity in Response to Short Meditation Stimuli Using R-Score, Electroencephalography, and Neural Networks. [PDF]
Ann NeurosciBackground Stress is a major problem in today’s culture, especially for expectant mothers. Newer therapies that show promising avenues for the reduction of stress include sound therapy, yoga, mantra chanting, and meditation (M).
Das D, Deb N, Talukdar RR, Choudhury SS.
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Effect of Meditation on Brain Activity during an Attention Task: A Comparison Study of ASL and BOLD Task fMRI [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2023 Focused attention meditation (FAM) training has been shown to improve attention, but the neural basis of FAM on attention has not been thoroughly understood. Here, we aim to investigate the neural effect of a 2-month FAM training on novice meditators in a visual oddball task (a frequently adopted task to evaluate attention), evaluated with both ASL and
Yakun Zhang +8 more
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Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 2022 AbstractBackgroundMounting evidence demonstrates that meditation can lower pain and emotional distress in adults, and more recently, in children. Children may benefit from meditation given its accessibility across a variety of settings (e.g., surgical preparation).
Aneesh Hehr +9 more
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Brain Activity During Paired and Individual Mindfulness Meditation: A Controlled EEG Study
The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 2022 Objective: In this study, we evaluated brain electroencephalographic (EEG) activity in healthy participants during the performance of paired and individual mindfulness meditation (MM). We hypothesized that EEG activity is differentially affected by meditation in pairs compared to individual meditation.
Hessel Engelbregt +3 more
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Effect of Heartfulness Meditation Among Long-Term, Short-Term and Non-meditators on Prefrontal Cortex Activity of Brain Using Machine Learning Classification: A Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]
Cureus, 2023 Background Meditation is a mental practice with health benefits and may increase activity in the prefrontal cortex of the brain. Heartfulness meditation (HM) is a modified form of rajyoga meditation supported by a unique feature called "yogic transmission." This feasibility study aimed to explore the effect of HM on electroencephalogram (EEG ...
Anurag Shrivastava +4 more
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Role of Yoga and Meditation as Complimentary Therapeutic Regime for Stress-Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Utilization of Brain Waves Activity as Novel Tool [PDF]
Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine, 2020 During recent decades, stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, chronic tension headache, and migraine have established their stronghold in the lives of a vast number of people worldwide. In order to address this global phenomenon, intensive studies have been carried out leading to the advancement of drugs like anti ...
Medha Kaushik +4 more
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Changes in the Electrical Activity of the Brain in the Alpha and Theta Bands during Prayer and Meditation [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 Focused attention meditation (FAM) is a category of meditation based on an EEG pattern, which helps the wandering mind to focus on a particular object. It seems that prayer may, in certain respects, be similar to FAM. It is believed that emotional experience correlates mainly with theta, but also with selective alpha, with internalized attention ...
Paweł Dobrakowski +2 more
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Erratum in: Effects of Tummo Meditation and Niguma Yoga on Brain Activity. [PDF]
Hawaii J Health Soc Welf[This corrects the article on p. 195 in vol. 84, PMID: 41356177.].
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