A 15O-H2O PET study of meditation and the resting state of normal consciousness

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 98-105

  Lou, Hans C ^a   Kjaer, Troels W ^a   Friberg, Lars ^b   Wildschiodtz, Gordon ^b   Holm, Søren ^b   Nowak, Markus ^b  

^a JOHN F KENNEDY INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attention; Awareness; Caudate nucleus; Cerebellum; Cingulate gyrus; Consciousness; Frontal subcortical loops; Imagery; Meditation; Occipital cortex; Striatum; V1

Indexed keywords

WATER O 15; OXYGEN; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; MEDITATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SCINTISCANNING; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; REFERENCE VALUES; SELF CONCEPT; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 0032587370     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0193(1999)7:2<98::AID-HBM3>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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