Evaluation of sleep architecture in practitioners of Sudarshan Kriya yoga and Vipassana meditation

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 207-214

  Sulekha, Sathiamma ^a   Thennarasu, Kandavel ^a   Vedamurthachar, Appajachar ^a   Raju, Trichur R ^a   Kutty, Bindu M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Sleep architecture; Slow wave sleep and REM sleep; Sudarshan Kriya yoga; Vipassana meditation

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN 3 RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 4 RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; MALE; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; REM SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION; YOGA;

EID: 33748680931     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2006.00233.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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