Meditation and its regulatory role on sleep
Intense meditation practices help to achieve a harmony between body and mind. Meditation practices influence brain functions, induce various intrinsic neural plasticity events, modulate autonomic, metabolic, endocrine and immune functions and thus mediate global regulatory changes in various behavio...
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| author | Ravindra P. Nagendra Nirmala eMaruthai Bindu M Kutty |
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| description | Intense meditation practices help to achieve a harmony between body and mind. Meditation practices influence brain functions, induce various intrinsic neural plasticity events, modulate autonomic, metabolic, endocrine and immune functions and thus mediate global regulatory changes in various behavioural states including sleep. This brief review focuses on the effect of meditation as a self regulatory phenomenon on sleep. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-71fa1febaf3a44029b4a35d9393c4dde2022-12-22T03:51:29ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Neurology1664-22952012-04-01310.3389/fneur.2012.0005425995Meditation and its regulatory role on sleepRavindra P. Nagendra0Nirmala eMaruthai1Bindu M Kutty2National Institute of Mental Health and NeurosciencesNational Institute of Mental Health and NeurosciencesNational Institute of Mental Health and NeurosciencesIntense meditation practices help to achieve a harmony between body and mind. Meditation practices influence brain functions, induce various intrinsic neural plasticity events, modulate autonomic, metabolic, endocrine and immune functions and thus mediate global regulatory changes in various behavioural states including sleep. This brief review focuses on the effect of meditation as a self regulatory phenomenon on sleep.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2012.00054/fullMeditationSleepneural plasticityautonomic activitybrain functionsendocrine functions |
| spellingShingle | Ravindra P. Nagendra Nirmala eMaruthai Bindu M Kutty Meditation and its regulatory role on sleep Frontiers in Neurology Meditation Sleep neural plasticity autonomic activity brain functions endocrine functions |
| title | Meditation and its regulatory role on sleep |
| title_full | Meditation and its regulatory role on sleep |
| title_fullStr | Meditation and its regulatory role on sleep |
| title_full_unstemmed | Meditation and its regulatory role on sleep |
| title_short | Meditation and its regulatory role on sleep |
| title_sort | meditation and its regulatory role on sleep |
| topic | Meditation Sleep neural plasticity autonomic activity brain functions endocrine functions |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2012.00054/full |
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