Effect of "SOHAM" meditation on the human brain: An fMRI study

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 214, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 462-465

  Guleria, Anupam ^a   Kumar, Uttam ^a   Kishan, Sadguru Sri Kunal ^b   Khetrapal, Chunni Lal ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ANANT PATH Centre of Meditation   (India)

Author keywords

Inferior frontal gyrus; Meditation; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEDITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOHAM MEDITATION; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MEDITATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 84888296797     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2013.06.012     Document Type: Article

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