Mental health analysis on digital world with meditation using EEG
S. Saravanan, S. Govindarajan
International Journal of Engineering & Technology December 9, 2018 DOI: 10.14419/ijet.v7i4.36.24539 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or methodological proposal Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | People of different ages using digital media |
| Intervention | Meditation |
| Measures | EEG |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key points | Argues that meditation reduces stress levels in humans while using digital media, as measured by EEG signals from a Mind Wave device. |
Abstract
Internet, e-mail and other social networks like Myspace, Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn are the indispensable components in today's world. These social networking makes the human to addict into the digital world. Digital world has become the integral part of our society. Addiction to the digital world slowly develops the negative symptoms in the area of physical, physiological, emotional and psychological. The most affected of all is the change in Emotional behaviour of the Humans. Emotions plays an important role in our day today life. The existing research work, based on subjective self-reports shows prolonged use of Digital Media induce negative emotions for Humans. There are several techniques are used to extract the human emotions from brain such as Electroencephalography (EEG), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), or Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Many of the researchers are extensively used to extract the brain waves using EEG. The negative emotions are controlled by human through meditation. In this paper, the Mind Wave device has been used to extract the EEG signal using different range of age people during they use the Digital Medias and after they perform mediation. The proposed method identify the stress level of the human while they are using social media with meditation and without meditation. It evidently proved that the meditation reduces the stress level of human.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition. | 2004 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mechanisms of mindfulness | 2005 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective | 2011 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression | 2006 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness | 2012 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |