Over the past several years meditation practice has gained increasing attention as a non-pharmacological
intervention to provide health related benefits, from promoting general …

The role of bottom-up and top-down connections during visual perception and the formation
of mental images was examined by analyzing high-density EEG recordings of brain activity …

Background We recently found marked deficits in sleep spindles, non-rapid eye movement (NREM)
sleep oscillations that are generated within the thalamus and then amplified and …

Studies consistently implicate aberrance of the brain's reward-processing and decision-making
networks in disorders featuring high levels of impulsivity, such as attention-deficit …

Study Objectives: Exposure to low ambient temperature (Ta) depresses REM sleep (REMS)
occurrence. In this study, both short and long-term homeostatic aspects of REMS regulation …

Interest has grown in using mindfulness meditation to treat conditions featuring excessive
impulsivity. However, while prior studies find that mindfulness practice can improve attention, it …

Study Objectives We have recently shown higher parietal-occipital EEG gamma activity
during sleep in long-term meditators compared to meditation-naive individuals. This gamma …

Thermoregulation is known to interfere with sleep, possibly due to a functional interaction at
the level of the preoptic area (POA). Exposure to low ambient temperature (T a ) induces …

Putative sympathetic premotor neurons controlling cutaneous vasomotion are contained
within the rostral ventromedial medulla (RVMM) between levels corresponding, rostrally, to the …

Our recent finding of a meditation‐related increase in low‐frequency NREM sleep EEG
oscillatory activities peaking in the theta‐alpha range (4–12 Hz) was not predicted. From a …