Meditation may predispose to epilepsy: An insight into the alteration in brain environment induced by meditation

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 464-467

  Jaseja, Harinder ^a  

^a G R MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; SEROTONIN;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DEPOLARIZATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EEG ABNORMALITY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HUMAN; MEDITATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP;

ALPHA RHYTHM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPILEPSY; GLUTAMIC ACID; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MEDITATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEROTONIN;

EID: 11144335401     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.09.012     Document Type: Article

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