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Dynamic features of the meditative state in 11 subjects practicing the Transcendental Meditation Program are analyzed. In each subject, an electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded from the frontal areas before, during, and after meditation. The transition to a meditative state was marked on the EEG by a decrease in the power of slow delta and theta waves, no significant change in alpha-wave activity, and a very marked increase in beta-wave activity. The changes detected in the spectral distributions on the EEG in the meditative state tended to persist after the return to the control state.
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Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 121, No 2, pp. 128–130, February, 1996
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Istratov, E.N., Lyubimov, N.N. & Orlova, T.V. Dynamic characteristics of modified consciousness during and after transcendental meditation. Bull Exp Biol Med 121, 117–119 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02446612
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02446612