International Journal of Neuroscience
December 1989
F T Travis, David W. Orme-Johnson
Changes in EEG coherence patterns were used to test a field model that posits a common field of "pure consciousness" linking all individuals. In ten trials, EEG was concurrently measured from pairs of subjects, one practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the TM-Sidhi technique of "Yogic Flying" (YFg)--said to enliven the proposed field of consciousness--and the other performing a computer...
International Journal of Neuroscience
July 1989
C H Bick
In 1985 I first reported my observations of stimuli-synchronized changes of EEG spectra occurring in 25 hypnotized patients. Electroencephalographic leads recorded separately for the left and right brain showed a switch of electrical activities from the left to the right hemisphere in right-handed persons. In the following study we changed the experimental conditions, using an EEG brain mapping...
International Journal of Neuroscience
May 1989
C Gaylord, David W. Orme-Johnson, F Travis
Eighty-three black college students, staff and adults were pretested on EEG coherence, skin potential (SP) habituation to a series of loud tones, psychometric measures of mental health (Tennessee Self-Concept Empirical Scales and Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory) and IQ. They were then randomly assigned to one of the three treatment groups: the Transcendental Meditation technique (TM);...
International Journal of Neuroscience
February 1989
S Freed
Detailed functional isomorphism had been observed (Freed, 1984) between induced (conditioned) immunogenicity and classical conditioned defensive reflexes, possibly as evolutionary adaptation against danger at micro and macro levels respectively. Similarly, functional isomorphism is postulated between conditioned specific tolerogenicity of the immunotolerance system and behavioral reflexes....
International Journal of Neuroscience
November 1, 1988
M A Gillman
The euphorogenic and sexual effects of analgesic nitrous oxide have been long reported anecdotally; however, these effects have only recently been investigated scientifically. The effects of oxygen and analgesic nitrous oxide on sexual arousal provoked by visual erotic stimulation in male (n = 7) and female (n = 6) subjects, using both subjective and objective measures were assessed. Nitrous...
International Journal of Neuroscience
1988
Cristiano Violani, Luigi De Gennaro, Luigi Solano
10 citations
Previous investigations pointed to a relationship between hemispheric asymmetry and dream recall. Since handedness may reflect the extent to which cerebral organization is lateralized, it was hypothesized that differences in dream recall might exist between different handedness groups. A selected sample of 78 college students (38 right-handers, 25 left-handers, 15 mixed-handers) completed a...
International Journal of Neuroscience
March 1986
Michael C. Dillbeck, S A Vesely
This study assesses variation in frontal bilateral EEG coherence among normal subjects during trials of a concept learning task; the task used a concept-reversal paradigm found from prior research to distinguish frontal lobe patients from normal adults. Subjects were either participants in the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program or controls matched for age, sex, and intellectual ability, and...
International Journal of Neuroscience
November 1984
M M Delmonte
The state effects of meditation appear to include decreased electrocortical arousal. There is also evidence that meditators more readily demonstrate alpha and theta activity than nonmeditators, even when not meditating. It is not clear whether prospective meditators as a group already possessed this characteristic, or whether the state effects of meditation practice eventually generalize to...
International Journal of Neuroscience
November 1984
R K Wallace, David W. Orme-Johnson, Paul J Mills et al.
The paired H reflex, considered to be the electrically evoked counterpart of the monosynaptic stretch reflex, provides a measure of motoneuron excitability under a variety of experimental and clinical conditions. It also offers a potentially useful tool in examining the neurophysiologic basis of alterations in reflex response in different states of awareness. This study investigated the...
International Journal of Neuroscience
May 1982
David W. Orme-Johnson, Michael C. Dillbeck, R K Wallace et al.
EEG coherence was measured between pairs of three different subjects during a one-hour period practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program. Coherence between subjects was evaluated for two sequential fifteen minute periods. On six experimental days, these periods preceded and then coincided with a fifteen minute period during which 2500 students participated in the TM-Sidhi program at...
International Journal of Neuroscience
February 1982
R K Wallace, Michael C. Dillbeck, E Jacobe et al.
To evaluate the effects of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi program on the aging process, a standardized test of biological aging, utilizing auditory threshold, near point vision, and systolic blood pressure, was given to a cross-sectional group (N = 84) with a mean age of 53 years. There were 11 controls, 33 short-term TM and TM-Sidhi participants, and 40 long-term participants....
International Journal of Neuroscience
1981
Michael C. Dillbeck, Edward C. Bronson
111 citations
EEG alpha coherence and slow alpha power were recorded from frontal and occipital derivations during relaxation or the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique in fifteen subjects. Subjects were tested before and after a two-week baseline period in which half practiced twice daily relaxation and half did not change their schedule. All subjects were then instructed in the TM technique and...
International Journal of Neuroscience
1981
David W. Orme-Johnson, C T Haynes
Males (n = 12, M age 25.6 yrs) with clear experiences (CE) of both "pure consciousness" (unbounded inner awareness without thoughts) and the TM--Sidhi techniques (mental procedures derived from Vedic Science to enhance cognitive, perceptual and other abilities) were compared with unclear experience (UE) males (n = 10, M age 25.5 yrs) on creativity (ideational fluency, Torrance, Novel Uses,...
International Journal of Neuroscience
1981
A Restian
Informational analysis of neurophysiological processes leads to the conclusion that the unconscious and subconscious comprise especially algorithmic processes, which take place according to precise rules, and awareness and consciousness comprise especially heuristic processes, for which the nervous system does not provide precise rules. The part played by awareness and consciousness is to find...
International Journal of Neuroscience
1980
T M McEvoy, L R Frumkin, S W Harkins
Brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) were measured in five advanced practitioners of Transcendental Meditation (TM) to determine whether such responses would reflect reported increases in perceptual acuity to auditory stimuli following meditation. The BAEP provides an objective physiological index of auditory function at a subcortical level. Repeated measures of the BAEPs of TM...