Meditation and the Self

The Lost Self: Pathologies of the Brain and Identity

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Lou, Hans C ^a   Kjaer, Troels W ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Meditation; Neural correlates; Self; Self representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173413.003.0016     Document Type: Chapter

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