Cerebral blood flow changes during chanting meditation

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 956-961

  Khalsa, Dharma Singh ^a   Amen, Daniel ^b   Hanks, Chris ^a   Money, Nisha ^c   Newberg, Andrew ^d  

^a Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation   (United States)

^b Amen Clinics Inc   (United States)

^c Office of the Surgeon General   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Meditation; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; REST; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEDITATION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; YOGA;

EID: 73649095553     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32832fa26c     Document Type: Article

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