Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
December 22, 2025
Nitesh Sharma, Dushyant Soni, Manvi Jain et al.
This study has studied the impact of Gayatri Mantra (GM) meditation on emotional processing using event-related potentials (ERPs) and self-report measures. Twenty-four healthy male participants (M = 32.37, SD = 8.02 years) voluntarily participated in this study. Based on their self-reported daily routine practices, participants were categorized into two groups: meditation practitioners (n = 12)...
Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging
April 1, 2025
Saampras Ganesan, Fernando A Barrios, Ishaan Batta et al.
6 citations
Meditation is a family of ancient and contemporary contemplative mind-body practices that can modulate psychological processes, awareness, and mental states. Over the last 40 years, clinical science has manualized meditation practices and designed various meditation interventions that have shown therapeutic efficacy for disorders including depression, pain, addiction, and anxiety. Over the past...
Ancient Science of Life
July 1, 2024
Nitesh Sharma, Jyoti Kumar, Rahul Garg et al.
The increasing prevalence of mental health problems and declining well-being among individuals is a growing concern. Among the methods prescribed for mental well-being, meditation, and yoga practices have been at the forefront since ancient times. This paper presents a cross-sectional survey study aimed at understanding the effect of Gayatri Mantra (GM) and yoga practices on the well-being...
Scientific Reports
June 5, 2024
Suruchi Fialoke, Vaibhav Tripathi, Sonika Thakral et al.
21 citations
Yoga nidra (YN) practice aims to induce a deeply relaxed state akin to sleep while maintaining heightened awareness. Despite the growing interest in its clinical applications, a comprehensive understanding of the underlying neural correlates of the practice of YN remains largely unexplored. In this fMRI investigation, we aim to discover the differences between wakeful resting states and states...
Nitesh Sharma, Dushyant Soni, Manvi Jain et al.
Abstract This study has studied the impact of Gayatri Mantra (GM) meditation on emotional processing using event-related potentials (ERPs) and self-report measures. Twenty-four healthy male participants (M = 32.37, SD = 8.02 years) voluntarily participated in this study. Based on their self-reported daily routine practices, participants were categorized into two groups: meditation practitioners...
Vaibhav Tripathi, Rahul Garg
preprint
Abstract Default mode network (DMN) are the areas of the brain that get deactivated upon the presentation of externally focused, attention demanding tasks. Interestingly, these areas are consistently deactivated irrespective of the nature of the task. Recent evidence shows that the behavior of the DMN may be more nuanced than what was earlier believed. We wanted to investigate the dynamics of...