Andrzej Cichocki

EEG paroxysmal gamma waves during Bhramari Pranayama: a yoga breathing technique.

Consciousness and Cognition December 2009 François Vialatte, Hovagim Bakardjian, Rajkishore Prasad et al.

Here we report that a specific form of yoga can generate controlled high-frequency gamma waves. For the first time, paroxysmal gamma waves (PGW) were observed in eight subjects practicing a yoga technique of breathing control called Bhramari Pranayama (BhPr). To obtain new insights into the nature of the EEG during BhPr, we analyzed EEG signals using time-frequency representations (TFR),...