EEG Changes With Guided Online Meditation

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Simple meditation and EEG changes

Detailed Description
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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, subjects will be asked to meditate twice a day, atleast minutes each time.

Official Title
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EEG Changes With Meditation: A Proposal to Analyze EEG Changes With a Simple, Online, Guided Meditative Tool.

Conditions
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Meditation

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Meditation
* Device: Enobio 32- EEG machine


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: 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 Criteria: 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

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Other
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Interventional Model 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, subjects will be asked to meditate twice a day, 12 minutes each time.
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Experienced meditators<br>Meditation ≥ 30 min per day for at least 5 days per week over the past 1 year | Behavioral: Meditation<br>* . IK is a meditation that can be learned quickly and requires approximately 12 minutes, twice a day of practice. This regimen was chosen because of its simplicity making it an excellent way to introduce meditation to beginners. IK does not incorporate a spiritual or religious focus<br>Device: Enobio 32- EEG machine<br>* The ENOBIO 32 EEG device is an investigational device under US federal law which is a 24-bit EEG data reader which is a wearable wireless device<br>|
| Experimental: Novice meditators<br>No meditation practice in the previous year and < 20 entire lifetime hours | Behavioral: Meditation<br>* . IK is a meditation that can be learned quickly and requires approximately 12 minutes, twice a day of practice. This regimen was chosen because of its simplicity making it an excellent way to introduce meditation to beginners. IK does not incorporate a spiritual or religious focus<br>Device: Enobio 32- EEG machine<br>* The ENOBIO 32 EEG device is an investigational device under US federal law which is a 24-bit EEG data reader which is a wearable wireless device<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Qualitative EEG measure changes in wave oscillations | Changes in time-frequency oscillations of EEG waves in fT^2/Hz | 6 weeks | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Qualitative EEG measure changes in wave amplitude | Changes in amplitude of EEG waves in fT | 6 weeks | 
| Qualitative EEG measure changes in wave latency | Changes in latency of EEG waves in ms | 6 weeks | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Meditation, EEG