Experienced Mindfulness Meditators Exhibit Higher Parietal-Occipital EEG Gamma Activity during NREM Sleep

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Ferrarelli, Fabio ^a   Smith, Richard ^a   Dentico, Daniela ^a   Riedner, Brady A ^a   Zennig, Corinna ^a   Benca, Ruth M ^a   Lutz, Antoine ^b,d   Davidson, Richard J ^b,c   Tononi, Giulio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEDITATION; MALE; MEDITATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; RELIGION;

ADULT; BRAIN WAVES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 84883361310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073417     Document Type: Article

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