Personality Correlates of EEG Change during Meditation
Psychological Reports April 1, 1977 Thomas K. Akers, Don M Tucker, Randy S. Roth et al.
15 seminary students who regularly practiced a form of Christian meditation were given the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Electroencephalographic (EEG) signals were recorded and analyzed for percent time alpha during performance of a series of mental arithmetic tasks and also during a period of meditation. Higher scores on the Hypochondriasis scale of the MMPI were...