EEG Changes With Guided Online Meditation (IKEEG)

Beth Israel Lahey Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Meditation

Treatments: Behavioral: Meditation; Device: Enobio 32- EEG machine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03459690

2018P000040

Details and patient eligibility

About

Simple meditation and EEG changes

Full 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, at least 12 minutes each time.

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. 18 years or older
2. 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

1. History of any neurological condition (i.e. Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, brain tumors, brain surgery, or multiple sclerosis)
2. History of depression, currently being treated with antidepressants
3. History of any psychiatric disorder, within last 5 years (i.e. anxiety, psychosis, posttraumatic stress disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder)
4. Current use of cognition-enhancing medications
5. Active history (within the last 5 years) of alcohol or drug abuse (> 10 drinks per week)
6. History (within the last 5 years) of stroke/aneurysm
7. Recent history (< 3 months) of seizures
8. Non-English speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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13 participants in 2 patient groups

Experienced meditators

Experimental group

Description:

Meditation ≥ 30 min per day for at least 5 days per week over the past 1 year

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation

Device: Enobio 32- EEG machine

Novice meditators

Experimental group

Description:

No meditation practice in the previous year and \< 20 entire lifetime hours

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation

Device: Enobio 32- EEG machine