Status:
COMPLETED
EEG Changes With Guided Online Meditation
Lead Sponsor:
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Conditions:
Meditation
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Simple meditation and EEG changes
Detailed Description
This is a prospective trial enrolling healthy volunteers, including novice meditators and experienced meditators. Subjects will undergo an EEG at baseline and again after 6 weeks. During the 6 weeks, ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 18 years or older
- Novice or expert meditator
- Novice meditator: No meditation practice in the previous year and \< 20 entire lifetime hours
- Expert meditator: Meditation ≥ 30 min per day for at least 5 days per week over the past 1 year
Exclusion
- History of any neurological condition (i.e. Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, brain tumors, brain surgery, or multiple sclerosis)
- History of depression, currently being treated with antidepressants
- History of any psychiatric disorder, within last 5 years (i.e. anxiety, psychosis, posttraumatic stress disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder)
- Current use of cognition-enhancing medications
- Active history (within the last 5 years) of alcohol or drug abuse (\> 10 drinks per week)
- History (within the last 5 years) of stroke/aneurysm
- Recent history (\< 3 months) of seizures
- Non-English speaking
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 29 2018
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
April 30 2019
Estimated Enrollment :
13 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03459690
Start Date
May 29 2018
End Date
April 30 2019
Last Update
March 28 2024
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215