Practitioners of vipassana meditation exhibit enhanced slow wave sleep and REM sleep states across different age groups

Sleep and Biological Rhythms

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-41

  Pattanashetty, Ravindra ^a   Sathiamma, Sulekha ^a   Talakkad, SathyaPrabha ^a   Nityananda, Pradhan ^a   Trichur, Raju ^a   Kutty, Bindu M ^a  

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

Author keywords

REM sleep; Sleep cycles; Slow wave sleep; Vipassana meditation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASTICITY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; VIPASSANA MEDITATION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 77950545459     PISSN: 14469235     EISSN: 14798425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-8425.2009.00416.x     Document Type: Article

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