Trial reportPloS one2013
Experienced mindfulness meditators exhibit higher parietal-occipital EEG gamma activity during NREM sleep.
Trial report in PloS one, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 56 papers.
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The trial behind it
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Creating and Optimizing Mindfulness Measures to Enhance and Normalize Clinical Evaluation (COMMENCE)
A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study of Mindfulness Meditation in Treating Insomnia in Multiple Sclerosis
Who cites it
56 citing papers in PubMed, 124 citations in OpenAlex.
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- High Resolution Topography of Age-Related Changes in Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Electroencephalography.PloS one · 2016Trial
- EEG evidence for reproducible neural states during Buddhist Highest Yoga Tantra meditation.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- EEG Brain Rhythms During Resting-State Wakefulness and Sleep in Elderly Expert Meditators.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Neurofluid circulation changes during a focused attention style of mindfulness meditation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Machine Learning-Based Comparative Analysis of Subject-Independent EEG Data Classification Across Multiple Meditation and Non-Meditation Sessions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Life in Suspension with Death: Biocultural Ontologies, Perceptual Cues, and Biomarkers for the Tibetan Tukdam Postmortem Meditative State.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2025Article
- Intracranial substrates of meditation-induced neuromodulation in the amygdala and hippocampus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Novel machine learning-driven comparative analysis of CSP, STFT, and CSP-STFT fusion for EEG data classification across multiple meditation and non-meditation sessions in BCI pipeline.Brain informatics · 2025Article
- Advancing personalized digital therapeutics: integrating music therapy, brainwave entrainment methods, and AI-driven biofeedback.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Review
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- Interindividual differences in mindfulness are linked to sleep-electroencephalographic characteristics.Sleep · 2024Article
- Does sleep promote adaptation to acute stress: An experimental study.Neurobiology of stress · 2024Article
- Associations between capacity of cognitive control and sleep quality: a two-wave longitudinal study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Common spatial pattern for classification of loving kindness meditation EEG for single and multiple sessions.Brain informatics · 2023Article
- The Effectiveness of a Multimodal Brain Empowerment Program in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Single-Blind, Quasi-Randomized Experimental Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Increased neurocardiological interplay after mindfulness meditation: a brain oscillation-based approach.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- A high-density electroencephalography study reveals abnormal sleep homeostasis in patients with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Over the past several years meditation practice has gained increasing attention as a non-pharmacological intervention to provide health related benefits, from promoting general wellness to alleviating the symptoms of a variety of medical conditions. However, the effects of meditation training on brain activity still need to be fully characterized. Sleep provides a unique approach to explore the meditation-related plastic changes in brain function. In this study we performed sleep high-density electroencephalographic (hdEEG) recordings in long-term meditators (LTM) of Buddhist meditation practices (approximately 8700 mean hours of life practice) and meditation naive individuals. We found that LTM had increased parietal-occipital EEG gamma power during NREM sleep. This increase was specific for the gamma range (25-40 Hz), was not related to the level of spontaneous arousal during NREM and was positively correlated with the length of lifetime daily meditation practice. Altogether, these findings indicate that meditation practice produces measurable changes in spontaneous brain activity, and suggest that EEG gamma activity during sleep represents a sensitive measure of the long-lasting, plastic effects of meditative training on brain function.
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