Effect of SOHAM meditation on human brain: A voxel-based morphometry study

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 187-190

  Kumar, Uttam ^a   Guleria, Anupam ^a   Kishan, Sadguru Sri Kunal ^b   Khetrapal, C L ^a  

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

^b ANANT PATH Centre of Meditation   (India)

Author keywords

Brain stem; Meditation; Ventral pallidum; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOHAM MEDITATION; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84896731280     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jon.12040     Document Type: Article

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