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| Title |
Experienced Mindfulness Meditators Exhibit Higher Parietal-Occipital EEG Gamma Activity during NREM Sleep
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0073417 |
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| Authors |
Fabio Ferrarelli, Richard Smith, Daniela Dentico, Brady A. Riedner, Corinna Zennig, Ruth M. Benca, Antoine Lutz, Richard J. Davidson, Giulio Tononi |
| Abstract |
Over the past several years meditation practice has gained increasing attention as a non-pharmacological intervention to provide health related benefits, from promoting general wellness to alleviating the symptoms of a variety of medical conditions. However, the effects of meditation training on brain activity still need to be fully characterized. Sleep provides a unique approach to explore the meditation-related plastic changes in brain function. In this study we performed sleep high-density electroencephalographic (hdEEG) recordings in long-term meditators (LTM) of Buddhist meditation practices (approximately 8700 mean hours of life practice) and meditation naive individuals. We found that LTM had increased parietal-occipital EEG gamma power during NREM sleep. This increase was specific for the gamma range (25-40 Hz), was not related to the level of spontaneous arousal during NREM and was positively correlated with the length of lifetime daily meditation practice. Altogether, these findings indicate that meditation practice produces measurable changes in spontaneous brain activity, and suggest that EEG gamma activity during sleep represents a sensitive measure of the long-lasting, plastic effects of meditative training on brain function. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 3 | 20% |
| Unknown | 12 | 80% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 67% |
| Scientists | 4 | 27% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1% |
| Malaysia | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Hungary | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Lithuania | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 380 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 73 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 60 | 15% |
| Researcher | 54 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 39 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 26 | 7% |
| Other | 91 | 23% |
| Unknown | 53 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 133 | 34% |
| Neuroscience | 52 | 13% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 36 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 27 | 7% |
| Engineering | 19 | 5% |
| Other | 61 | 15% |
| Unknown | 68 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 57. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 May 2024.
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