EEG paroxysmal gamma waves during Bhramari Pranayama: A yoga breathing technique

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 977-988

  Vialatte, François B ^a   Bakardjian, Hovagim ^a   Prasad, Rajkishore ^b   Cichocki, Andrzej ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Gamma; Meditation; Signal processing; Temporal lobe; Yoga

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MEDITATION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; YOGA;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEDITATION; RESPIRATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; YOGA;

EID: 67449094707     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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