Does meditation predispose to epilepsy? EEG studies of expert meditators self-inducing simple partial seizures [4]

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 674-676

  Nicholson, Philip ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MEDITATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEIZURES;

EID: 30344475800     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.09.023     Document Type: Letter

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