Meditation-related increases in GABAB modulated cortical inhibition

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 397-402

  Guglietti, Crissa L ^a   Daskalakis, Zafiris J ^b   Radhu, Natasha ^b   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^c   Ritvo, Paul ^a,d  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Alfred and Monash University Central Clinical School ^*  (Australia)

^d CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical silent period (CSP); Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA); Meditation; Motor cortex; Short intra cortical inhibition (SICI); Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SILENT PERIOD; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT INTRA CORTICAL INHIBITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELEVISION VIEWING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877736855     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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