Travis, 1991
Travis, F. Eyes open and TM EEG patterns after one and eight years of TM practice. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 1991. Psychophysiology 28 (Suppl. 3A): S58, 1991 (Abstract).
This study comparing the EEG activity of short- and long-term participants in the Transcendental Meditation program found that both groups displayed increased frontal alpha EEG activity and periodic theta-alpha bursts during the practice of Transcendental Meditation, while the long-term participants showed higher levels of frontal-central EEG coherence with eyes open, indicating the stabilization of EEG coherence outside of the practice of Transcendental Meditation.
- Year
- 1991
- Journal
- Psychophysiology
- Publication type
- Journal
- Paper type
- Empirical
- Collected Papers
- Vol. 6, pp. 3793–3794
- Section
- Electrophysiological and Electroencephalographic Changes
Findings (2)
Electroencephalographic
Higher Eyes-Open Frontal-Central EEG Coherence in Long-Term Participants in the Transcendental Meditation program
Transcendental Meditation · Cross-sectional comparison of groups
During the Practice—Brain Activity
Increased Frontal Alpha EEG Activity and Periodic Theta-Alpha Bursts During the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique for both Short-Term and Long-Term Participants
Transcendental Meditation · State changes within subjects · During TM
Authors
- Frederick Travis, PhD
Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA, USA