Reduced functional connectivity between cortical sources in five meditation traditions detected with lagged coherence using EEG tomography

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1574-1586

  Lehmann, Dietrich ^a   Faber, Pascal L ^a   Tei, Shisei ^a,b,c   Pascual Marqui, Roberto D ^a   Milz, Patricia ^a   Kochi, Kieko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

EEG; Five meditation traditions; Functional connectivity; LORETA; Source model lagged cortical EEG coherence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DISSOLUTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDITATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; TIBETAN MEDICINE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; YOGA;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84857272806     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.042     Document Type: Article

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