A single case design to examine short-term intracranial EGG patterns during focused meditation

Dana Dharmakaya Colgan; Tab Memmott; Dan Klee; Lia Ernst; Seunggu J. Han; Barry Oken

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2019.134441

A single case design to examine short-term intracranial EGG patterns during focused meditation

Dana Dharmakaya Colgan, Tab Memmott, Dan Klee, Lia Ernst, Seunggu J. Han, Barry Oken

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Purpose: This study used a multiple crossover ABAB single case design to examine intracranial EEG data during a breath awareness meditation and an active control task. Results: Visual analyses suggest that a brief breath awareness mediation was consistently associated with increased alpha power when compared to the active control. Less consistent effects were found with theta, beta, and high gamma activity. Nonparametric tests provided additional support for this finding. Conclusions: Acquiring intracranial EEG patterns during a meditative state may provide more insight into the physiology of meditation with less contamination of high-frequency muscle activity.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	134441
Journal	Neuroscience Letters
Volume	711
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2019.134441
State	Published - Oct 15 2019

Keywords

Breath awareness meditation
Intracranial EEG
Meditation
Single case experimental designs

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