ArticleBioPsychoSocial medicine2013
Changes in P300 following alternate nostril yoga breathing and breath awareness.
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- Pooled it
- Changes in Shape and Size Discrimination and State Anxiety After Alternate-Nostril Yoga Breathing and Breath Awareness in One Session Each.Medical science monitor basic research · 2019Trial
- Effect of Alternate Nostril Breathing Exercise on Experimentally Induced Anxiety in Healthy Volunteers Using the Simulated Public Speaking Model: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study.BioMed research international · 2017Trial
- Differential Cognitive Strategies for Speech-in-Noise Perception: A Comparative Study Between Yoga Practitioners and Non-practitioners.Annals of neurosciences · 2026Article
- Neuronal oscillations and functional connectivity of paced nostril breathing: A high-density EEG study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Impact of yoga-based interventions on cognitive and autonomic functions in major depressive disorder population.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2024Article
- Visual respiratory biofeedback to improve visuospatial cognition and cardiac interoception in migraineurs: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Effects of Hatha yoga on cognitive functions in the elderly: a cross-sectional study.The Libyan journal of medicine · 2022Article
- Slow yoga breathing improves mental load in working memory performance and cardiac activity among yoga practitioners.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Effect of Moola Bandha (Perineum Contraction), A Yogic Lock on Cognitive Functions of College Students: An Exploratory Study.Journal of religion and health · 2020Article
- Effects of 8 weeks of modified hatha yoga training on resting-state brain activity and the p300 ERP in patients with physical disability-related stress.Journal of physical therapy science · 2018Article
- Hypoxia in CNS Pathologies: Emerging Role of miRNA-Based Neurotherapeutics and Yoga Based Alternative Therapies.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Review
- Role of Yoga and Meditation as Complimentary Therapeutic Regime for Stress-Related Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Utilization of Brain Waves Activity as Novel Tool.Journal of evidence-based integrative medicineReview
- Changes in Reaction Time after Yoga Bellows-type Breathing in Healthy Female Volunteers.International journal of yogaArticle
- Immediate Effects of Yoga Breathing with Intermittent Breath Holding on Response Inhibition among Healthy Volunteers.International journal of yogaArticle
- Immediate Hemodynamic Changes during Slow Uninostril and Alternate Nostril Breathing Patterns in Normotensive Adults.International journal of yogaArticle
- Effects of yogic breath regulation: A narrative review of scientific evidence.Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicineReview
- Yoga and heart rate variability: A comprehensive review of the literature.International journal of yogaReview
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
This study assessed the effect of alternate nostril yoga breathing (nadisuddhi pranayama) on P300 auditory evoked potentials compared to a session of breath awareness of equal duration, in 20 male adult volunteers who had an experience of yoga breathing practices for more than three months. Peak amplitudes and peak latencies of the P300 were assessed before and after the respective sessions. There was a significant increase in the P300 peak amplitudes at Fz, Cz, and Pz and a significant decrease in the peak latency at Fz alone following alternate nostril yoga breathing. Following breath awareness there was a significant increase in the peak amplitude of P300 at Cz. This suggests that alternate nostril yoga breathing positively influences cognitive processes which are required for sustained attention at different scalp sites (frontal, vertex and parietal), whereas breath awareness brings about changes at the vertex alone.
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