{"id":143,"date":"2009-02-24T10:32:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T08:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totalbrain.ch\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2025-07-27T15:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:04:27","slug":"effects-of-transcendental-meditation-practice-on-brain-functioning-and-stress-reactivity-in-college-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.totalbrain.ch\/wordpress\/scientific-research\/effects-of-transcendental-meditation-practice-on-brain-functioning-and-stress-reactivity-in-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Effects of Transcendental Meditation practice on brain functioning and stress reactivity in college students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>International Journal of Psychophysiology 71 (2009) 170-176<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nA b s t r a c t<\/p>\n<p>This randomized controlled trial investigated effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) practice on Brain Integration Scale scores (broadband frontal coherence, power ratios, and preparatory brain responses), electrodermal habituation to 85-dB tones, sleepiness, heart rate, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and P300 latencies in 50 college students. After pretest, students were randomly assigned to learn TM immediately or learn after the 10-week posttest. There were no significant pretest group differences. A MANOVA of students with complete data (N=38) yielded significant group vs treatment interactions for Brain Integration Scale scores, sleepiness, and habituation rates (all pb.007). Post hoc analyses revealed significant increases in Brain Integration Scale scores for Immediate-start students but decreases in Delayed-start students; significant reductions in sleepiness in Immediate-start students with no change in Delayed-start students; and no changes in habituation rates in Immediate-start students, but significant increases in Delayed-start students. 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