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Case Report

Three Case Reports of the Metabolic and Electroencephalographic Changes during Advanced Buddhist Meditation Techniques

Dr. Herbert Benson MD Department of Medicine, New England Deaconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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Dr. M. S. Malhotra MD Medical Commission, Indian Olympic Association, New Delhi, India
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Dr. Ralph F. Goldman PhD Comfort Technologies, Inc., Natick, Massachusetts, USA
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Dr. Gregg D. Jacobs PhD Section on Behavioral Medicine and the Mind/Body Medical, Institute of the New England Deaconess Hospital and the Harvard Medical School, USA
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Dr. P. Jeffrey Hopkins PhD Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Pages 90-95 | Published online: 09 Jul 2010

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