Stress management and enhancement of cognitive parameters using photic meditation

Karupathal E; Kalpana R; Harini O K; Ashwin Kumar J

doi:10.1117/12.3029898

24 April 2024 Stress management and enhancement of cognitive parameters using photic meditation

Karupathal E, Kalpana R, Harini O K, Ashwin Kumar J

Proceedings Volume 13108, Women in Optics and Photonics in India 2023; 1310816 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3029898
Event: Women in Optics and Photonics in India 2023, 2024, Chennai, India

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Abstract

Cognitive decline impact various aspects of lifestyle including sleep. Though there are many way to enhance cognitive skills, meditation has shown promising impact on neural system. This study uses photic meditation for a brief period over 40 healthy volunteers. They are divided into two groups: a non-photic group practicing traditional meditation and photic group in a specially designed setup. Brain signals are recorded before and after intervention by exercising digit span test, Stroop test and Wisconsin card sorting test. After pre-processing brain signals continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is used to compute energy distribution. The study results indicate that the energy concentrated shortly before the intervention is evenly distributed during the testing period following the intervention. Specifically red and green lights shows a better responses in enhancing the cognitive parameters which is also cross validated using paired t-test and perceived stress scale (PSS) score. Thus the proposed method would help in improving specific cognitive skills.

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Karupathal E, Kalpana R, Harini O K, and Ashwin Kumar J "Stress management and enhancement of cognitive parameters using photic meditation", Proc. SPIE 13108, Women in Optics and Photonics in India 2023, 1310816 (24 April 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3029898

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