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LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME ONE Paper Page Paper Page LIST OF SCIENTifiC PAPERS Number Number VOLUME 1 Basal Skin Resistance; Cessation of Spontaneous Channels; Periods of Uniformity of Frequency and Skin Resistance Responses ....................108 Amplitude from All Leads ....................151 8 PERIODIC SUSPENSION OF RESPIRATION 15 SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF THE EEG DURING THE TRANSCENDENTAL IN MEDITATION MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Paper Page Jean-Paul Banquet, Dr en méd., Dr en math. appl. PART 1: PHYSIOLOGY Number J. Russell Hebert, M.A. Increased Orderliness and Integration of Brain Maximum State of Deep Rest: Episodes of Functioning: High Amplitude EEG Alpha Activity The Studies in the First Two Sections Document Changes Central Regions; Episodes of Rhythmical EEG Spontaneous Breath Suspension (Not Followed by Extending to Anterior Channels; Bursts of High during the Practice of the Transcendental Meditation Theta Activity in Frontal Region. Reduction in Hyper ventilation) ...........................134 Amplitude Theta Activity in All Channels; Technique Unless Otherwise Stated. Biochemical Index of Stress: Decreased Arterial Rhythmic High Amplitude Beta Activity in Lactate ..................................... 79 9 REDUCTION IN METABOLIC RATE DURING All Channels; Synchronization of Anterior and THE PRACTICE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL A: Metabolic Changes Posterior Channels. Electromyographic Evidence 4 THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MEDITATION MEDITATION TECHNIQUE of Deep Muscular Relaxation ..................152 Paper Page Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D., et al. V. Hubert Dhanaraj, Ph.D., and Mohan Singh Number HEMISPHERIC SYMMETRY OF THE EEG A Unique State of Deep Rest Coexisting with A Unique State of Deep Rest: Decreased 16 1 PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF Wakeful, Ordered State of Brain Functioning: Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen Consumption DUR ING THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Decreased Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen and Unchanged Respiratory Quotient); Decreased MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D. Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Elimination); Tidal Volume ...............................137 Mark Westcott, B.A. A Unique State of Deep Rest Coexisting with Normal Arterial Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide 10 DECREASED RESPIRATORY RATE DURING Increased Orderliness and Integration of Brain Partial Pressures; Decreased Respiration Rate; Wakeful, Ordered State of Brain Functioning: THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Functioning: Higher Levels of Interhemispheric Decreased Minute Ventilation; Decreased Heart EEG Alpha Correlation; Greater Power Balance Decreased Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen TECHNIQUE: A REPLICATION Consumption and Unchanged Respiratory Rate; Increased Basal Skin Resistance; Increased between Right and Left Hemispheres . .160 Robert Bakker, B.A. Quotient); Decreased Minute Ventilation; Intensity of EEG Alpha Activity in Frontal and Decreased Heart Rate; Increased Basal Skin Central Regions; Episodes of Rhythmical EEG Indication of Deep Rest: Decreased Respiration 17 EEG ANALYSIS OF SPONTANEOUS AND Resistance; Increased Regularity and Intensity of Theta Activity in Frontal Region. Reduction in Rate ......................................140 INDUCED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS EEG Alpha Activity ����������������������������������������������������� 38 Biochemical Index of Stress: Decreased Arterial Jean-Paul Banquet, Dr en méd., Dr en math. appl., 11 INCREASED FOREARM BLOOD FLOW Lactate ..................................... 86 and Maurice Sailhan, M.D. 2 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF DURING A WAKEFUL HYPOMETABOLIC TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION: 5 RESPIRATORY CHANGES DURING STATE EEG Indications of Restful Alertness: Less Activation (Decreased Proportion of Beta A PROPOSED FOURTH MAJOR STATE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D., et al. to Alpha); Greater Wakefulness (Increased OF CONSCIOUSNESS John Allison, M.D. Small Increase in Forearm Blood Flow ...........142 Proportion of Alpha to Delta). Increased Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D. Indication of Deep Rest: Decreased Respiration 12 PLASMA PROLACTIN AND CORTISOL Orderliness and Integration of Brain Functioning; A Unique State of Deep Rest Coexisting with Rate ....................................... 92 Greater Interhemispheric and Intrahemispheric DURING TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Wakeful, Ordered State of Brain Functioning: Synchronization . 165 Decreased Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen 6 AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE AND R. Jevning, Ph.D.; A. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Elimination); OXYGEN CONSUMPTION CHANGES E. VanderLaan, M.A.; and S. Levine, Ph.D. 18 THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Normal Arterial Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide ASSOCIATED WITH PRACTICE OF Reduction in Biochemical Index of Stress: TECHNIQUE AND EEG ALPHA ACTIVITY Partial Pressures; Decreased Respiration Rate; THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Decreased Plasma Cortisol. Small Increase Diana J. Kras, B.A. Decreased Heart Rate; Increased Basal Skin TECHNIQUE in Plasma Prolactin Immediately following EEG Indications of Restful Alertness: Increased Resistance; Increased Intensity of EEG Alpha Transcendental Meditation ....................143 Paul W. Corey, M.A., M.D. Alpha Activity in All Areas of the Brain. Activity in Frontal and Central Regions; Episodes A Unique State of Deep Rest: Increased Airway Maintenance of a Relaxed Style of Physiological of Rhythmical EEG Theta Activity in Frontal 13 PLASMA AMINO ACIDS DURING THE Con ductance (Increased Ease of Breathing); Functioning following Transcendental Meditation: Region. Reduction in Biochemical Index of TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Decreased Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen Persistence of Greater Alpha Activity . .173 Stress: Decreased Arterial Lactate. Self-Reported TECHNIQUE: COMPARISON TO SLEEP Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Elimination); Improvements in Physical and Mental Health, and R. Jevning, Ph.D.; A.F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; Decreased Heart Rate ......................... 94 19 QUANTIFIED EEG SPECTRAL ANALYSIS Resistance to Disease ......................... 43 and W.R. Smith, M.D. OF SLEEP AND TRANSCENDENTAL Increased Plasma Phenylalanine . .145 3 A WAKEFUL HYPOMETABOLIC 7 PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES MEDlTATION PHYSIOLOGIC STATE ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSCENDENTAL Jean-Paul Banquet, M.D., and Maurice Sailhan, CONSCIOUSNESS, THE STATE OF LEAST Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D., et al. B: Electrophysiological and M.D. EXCITATlON OF CONSCIOUSNESS A Unique State of Deep Rest Coexisting with Electroencephalographic Changes EEG Correlates of Inner Wakefulness during Wakeful, Ordered State of Brain Functioning: John T. Farrow, Ph.D. Different Phases of Sleep .....................182 Decreased Metabolic Rate (Decreased Oxygen Experience of Transcendental Consciousness 14 EEG AND MEDITATION Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Elimination); As so ciated with: High EEG Coherence in the Jean-Paul Banquet, Dr en méd., Dr en math. appl. 20 EEG COHERENCE DURING THE Normal Arterial Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Theta, Alpha, and Beta Bands; Episodes of EEG Indications of Restful Alertness: Coexistence TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Partial Pressures; Decreased Respiration Rate; Spontaneous Breath Suspension (Not Followed of Theta and Delta with Alpha and Beta Activity. TECHNIQUE Decreased Minute Ventilation; Decreased Heart by Hyperventilation); Marked Reductions in Increased Orderliness and Integration of Brain Paul H. Levine, Ph.D.; J. Russell Hebert, M.A.; Rate; Increased Basal Skin Resistance; Increased Metabolic Rate (Oxygen Consumption and Carbon Functioning: Hypersynchrony and Rhythmicity; Christopher T. Haynes, B.A.; and Urs Strobel, Intensity of EEG Alpha Activity in Frontal and Dioxide Elimination) and Heart Rate; Increased Synchronization of Anterior and Posterior Dipl. Lab. xxiv xxv SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND TM-SIDHI PROGRAMME, VOL. 8 LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: VOLUME ONE Paper Page Paper Page Paper Page Paper Page Number Number Number Number Increased Orderliness and Integration of Brain Responses; Fewer Spontaneous Skin Resistance D: Health 38 TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION Functioning: Increased EEG Coherence Especially Responses .................................233 AND ASTHMA 32 DECREASED BLOOD PRESSURE IN in Alpha and Theta Bands .....................187 Archie F. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.; Ronald W. HYPERTENSIVE SUBJECTS WHO 26 AUTONOMIC FUNCTIONING IN SUBJECTS Honsberger; John T. Chiu, M.D.; and Harold S. 21 THE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF ADVANCED PRACTICING THE TRANSCENDENTAL PRACTICED MEDI TATION Novey, M.D. PARTICIPANTS IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Robert Keith Wallace, Ph.D., et al. Improvements in Bronchial Asthma: Decreased MEDITATION PROGRAM: CORRELATIONS Gregory G. Wilcox, B.S. Improved Cardiovascular Health: Decreased Blood Severity of Symptoms Reported by Patients and OF EEG COHERENCE, CREATIVITY, Pressure in Hypertensive Subjects ..............266 Physicians; Reduced Airway Resistance . .283 H-REFLEX RECOVERY, AND EXPERIENCE Improved Resistance to Stress: Greater Autonomic OF TRANSCENDENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS Stability—Faster Habituation of Skin Resistance 33 EFFECTS OF TRANSCENDENTAL 39 CHANGES IN INFLAMMATION IN Response to Stressful Stimuli; Fewer Spontaneous Christopher T. Haynes, B.A.; J. Russell Hebert, MEDITATION ON BLOOD PRESSURE: PERSONS PRACTICING THE Skin Resistance Responses .................... M.A.; William Reber, M.S.; and David W. Orme- 239 A CONTROLLED PILOT EXPERIMENT TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE Johnson, Ph.D. 27 STABILITY OF SKIN RESISTANCE Barry Blackwell, M.D.; Irwin B. Hanenson, M.D.; Saul S.