Changes in P300 following alternate nostril yoga breathing and breath awareness

BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Telles, Shirley ^a   Singh, Nilkamal ^a   Puthige, Raghuraj ^b  

^a PATANJALI RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^b Swami Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation   (India)

Author keywords

Alternate nostril yoga breathing; Breath awareness; Cognitive processes; P300

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878372705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17510759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0759-7-11     Document Type: Article

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