Heart rate dynamics in different levels of Zen meditation

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 142-146

  Peressutti, Caroline ^a   Martín González, Juan M ^a   M garcía Manso, Juan ^a   Mesa, Denkô ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b Centro de Profesores   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heart rate variability; Low frequency oscillations; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia; Wavelet analysis; Zen meditation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; BREATHING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ZEN MEDITATION;

EID: 78049467313     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2009.06.058     Document Type: Article

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