Enhanced power within a predicted narrow band of theta activity during stimulation of another by circumcerebral weak magnetic fields after weekly spatial proximity: Evidence for macroscopic quantum entanglement?

NeuroQuantology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-21

  Persinger, Michael A ^a   Tsang, Eric W ^a   Booth, J Nicholas ^a   Koren, Stanley A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Entanglement; Magnetic field; Quantum neuroscience; Theta activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COMPUTER; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SIBLING; TEMPORAL LOBE; THETA RHYTHM; THINKING;

EID: 49949116946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13035150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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