Neurocognitive and Somatic Components of Temperature Increases during g-Tummo Meditation: Legend and Reality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Kozhevnikov, Maria ^a,b   Elliott, James ^a,c   Shephard, Jennifer ^d   Gramann, Klaus ^e,f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; AXILLA TEMPERATURE; BETA RHYTHM; BREATHING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; G TUMMO MEDITATION; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; PSYCHOSOMATICS; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; VISION;

ADULT; COGNITION; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES; THERMOGENESIS; TIBET;

EID: 84875526903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058244     Document Type: Article

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