Journal article
Effects of meditation on frontal alpha-asymmetry in previously suicidal individuals.
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This study investigated the effects of a meditation-based treatment for preventing relapse to depression, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), on prefrontal alpha-asymmetry in resting electroencephalogram (EEG), a biological indicator of affective style. Twenty-two individuals with a previous history of suicidal depression were randomly assigned to either MBCT (N=10) or treatment-as-usual (TAU, N=12). Resting electroencephalogram was measured before and after an 8-week course of treatm...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Neuroreport
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 7
- Pages:
- 709-712
- Publication date:
- 2007-05-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1473-558X
- ISSN:
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0959-4965
- Source identifiers:
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139637
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:139637
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uuid:c87e44b7-245e-428d-9671-8ab893ca64fa
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- pubs:139637
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2007
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