Michael A Persinger

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Affiliation: Laurentian University
Country: Canada

Publications

  1. ncbi A potential multiple resonance mechanism by which weak magnetic fields affect molecules and medical problems: the example of melatonin and experimental "multiple sclerosis"
    Michael A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Biophysics Section, Department of Biology, Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ont, Canada P3E 2C6
    Med Hypotheses 66:811-5. 2006
  2. ncbi Enhanced power within a specific band of theta activity in one person while another receives circumcerebral pulsed magnetic fields: a mechanism for cognitive influence at a distance?
    M A Persinger
    Consciousness Research Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 97:877-94. 2003
  3. ncbi Sudden death in epileptic rats exposed to nocturnal magnetic fields that simulate the shape and the intensity of sudden changes in geomagnetic activity: an experiment in response to Schnabel, Beblo and May
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada
    Int J Biometeorol 49:256-61. 2005
  4. ncbi Entrainment of stage 2 sleep spindles by weak, transcerebral magnetic stimulation in an "epileptic" woman
    Michael A Persinger
    Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory, Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Electromagn Biol Med 28:374-82. 2009
  5. ncbi 10-20 Joules as a neuromolecular quantum in medicinal chemistry: an alternative approach to myriad molecular pathways?
    M A Persinger
    Behavioural Neuroscience and Biomolecular Science Programs, Biophysics Section, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada
    Curr Med Chem 17:3094-8. 2010
  6. ncbi Emergence of spontaneous seizures during the year following lithium/pilocarpine-induced epilepsy and neuronal loss within the right temporal cortices
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury Ont, Canada, P3E 2C6
    Epilepsy Behav 5:440-5. 2004
  7. ncbi A theory of neurophysics and quantum neuroscience: implications for brain function and the limits of consciousness
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Biophysics Section, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 117:157-75. 2007
  8. ncbi Case report: A prototypical spontaneous 'sensed presence' of a sentient being and concomitant electroencephalographic activity in the clinical laboratory
    Michael A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Neuropsychology Laboratory, Laurentian University Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Neurocase 14:425-30. 2008
  9. ncbi Students' perceptions of dangerousness to public safety of paraphrases from the Koran, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Tibetan Book of the Dead, and Egyptian Book of the Dead presented as patients' beliefs
    M A Persinger
    Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 98:1345-55. 2004
  10. ncbi Differential numbers of foci of lymphocytes within the brains of Lewis rats exposed to weak complex nocturnal magnetic fields during development of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis
    Michael A Persinger
    Behavioural Neuroscience and Biomolecular Sciences Programs, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 119:166-84. 2009

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  1. ncbi A potential multiple resonance mechanism by which weak magnetic fields affect molecules and medical problems: the example of melatonin and experimental "multiple sclerosis"
    Michael A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Biophysics Section, Department of Biology, Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ont, Canada P3E 2C6
    Med Hypotheses 66:811-5. 2006
    ..The model offers an alternative explanation to the variations of Faraday's Law and the Boltzmann constant that have been employed to explain and to dismiss biological effects from weak magnetic fields...
  2. ncbi Enhanced power within a specific band of theta activity in one person while another receives circumcerebral pulsed magnetic fields: a mechanism for cognitive influence at a distance?
    M A Persinger
    Consciousness Research Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 97:877-94. 2003
    ..The results suggest that an appropriate altered state of one brain can effect specific predictable frequencies of the electroncephalographic activity of another distant brain which is genetically related...
  3. ncbi Sudden death in epileptic rats exposed to nocturnal magnetic fields that simulate the shape and the intensity of sudden changes in geomagnetic activity: an experiment in response to Schnabel, Beblo and May
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada
    Int J Biometeorol 49:256-61. 2005
    ..These results suggest that correlational analyses between SUD in epileptic patients and increased geomagnetic activity can be simulated experimentally in epileptic rats and that potential mechanisms might be testable directly...
  4. ncbi Entrainment of stage 2 sleep spindles by weak, transcerebral magnetic stimulation in an "epileptic" woman
    Michael A Persinger
    Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory, Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Electromagn Biol Med 28:374-82. 2009
    ....
  5. ncbi 10-20 Joules as a neuromolecular quantum in medicinal chemistry: an alternative approach to myriad molecular pathways?
    M A Persinger
    Behavioural Neuroscience and Biomolecular Science Programs, Biophysics Section, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada
    Curr Med Chem 17:3094-8. 2010
    ..Consideration of information as discrete increments of energy may allow greater experimental control and external intervention of pathways relevant to medicinal chemistry...
  6. ncbi Emergence of spontaneous seizures during the year following lithium/pilocarpine-induced epilepsy and neuronal loss within the right temporal cortices
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury Ont, Canada, P3E 2C6
    Epilepsy Behav 5:440-5. 2004
    ..These results may explain the greater proportion of spontaneous seizures that begin with left side forelimb clonus and suggest a particular sensitivity of the right side of the brain to either their initiation or their consequences...
  7. ncbi A theory of neurophysics and quantum neuroscience: implications for brain function and the limits of consciousness
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Biophysics Section, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 117:157-75. 2007
    ..The multiple congruencies of the solutions suggest that brain space could contain inordinately large amounts of information reflecting the nature of extraordinarily large increments of space and time...
  8. ncbi Case report: A prototypical spontaneous 'sensed presence' of a sentient being and concomitant electroencephalographic activity in the clinical laboratory
    Michael A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Neuropsychology Laboratory, Laurentian University Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Neurocase 14:425-30. 2008
    ....
  9. ncbi Students' perceptions of dangerousness to public safety of paraphrases from the Koran, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Tibetan Book of the Dead, and Egyptian Book of the Dead presented as patients' beliefs
    M A Persinger
    Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 98:1345-55. 2004
    ..These results suggest that statements about killing and death may be rated as less dangerous if the person believes the source was a "sacred text."..
  10. ncbi Differential numbers of foci of lymphocytes within the brains of Lewis rats exposed to weak complex nocturnal magnetic fields during development of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis
    Michael A Persinger
    Behavioural Neuroscience and Biomolecular Sciences Programs, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 119:166-84. 2009
    ....
  11. ncbi Correlated cerebral events between physically and sensory isolated pairs of subjects exposed to yoked circumcerebral magnetic fields
    M A Persinger
    Consciousness Research Laboratory, Behavioural Neuroscience and Biomolecular Sciences Programs, Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada
    Neurosci Lett 486:231-4. 2010
    ..The development of this experimental procedure could facilitate rational understanding of this class of "coincidence" phenomena...
  12. ncbi Agonistic behavior in groups of limbic epileptic male rats: pattern of brain damage and moderating effects from normal rats
    D Desjardins
    Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6
    Brain Res 905:26-33. 2001
    ..Multiple regression analyses showed that combinations of neuronal loss within only two to three areas accommodated at least 50% of the variance in the numbers of these behaviors...
  13. ncbi Behavioral changes with brief exposures to weak magnetic fields patterned to stimulate long-term potentiation
    Quoc Hao Mach
    Behavioural Neuroscience Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Brain Res 1261:45-53. 2009
    ..These results show that physiologically-patterned magnetic fields can produce dramatic changes in behavior when they are applied during states associated with marked synaptic plasticity...
  14. ncbi Experimental facilitation of the sensed presence: possible intercalation between the hemispheres induced by complex magnetic fields
    Michael A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6
    J Nerv Ment Dis 190:533-41. 2002
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  15. ncbi Photon emissions from human brain and cell culture exposed to distally rotating magnetic fields shared by separate light-stimulated brains and cells
    Blake T Dotta
    Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6
    Brain Res 1388:77-88. 2011
    ..These results support accumulating data that under specific conditions changes in photon emissions may reflect intercellular and interbrain communications with potential quantum-like properties...
  16. ncbi Large differences in blood measures, tissue weights, and focal areas of damage 1 year after postseizure treatment with acepromazine or ketamine
    Katherine R George
    Department of Biology, Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada
    Epilepsy Behav 15:98-105. 2009
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  17. ncbi Red light facilitates the sensed presence elicited by application of weak, burst-firing magnetic fields over the temporal lobes
    Salvatore C Meli
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 119:68-75. 2009
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  18. ncbi Lithium ion "cyclotron resonance" magnetic fields decrease seizure onset times in lithium-pilocarpine seized rats
    B E McKay
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 114:1035-45. 2004
    ..Although not predicted by the equations, this report extends other findings suggestive of discrete intensity windows for which magnetic field frequencies derived from the cyclotron ion resonance equation may affect ion activity...
  19. ncbi The neuromatrix and the epileptic brain: behavioral and learning preservation in limbic epileptic rats treated with ketamine but not acepromazine
    N M Fournier
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Epilepsy Behav 5:119-27. 2004
    ..Further clinical testing investigating ketamine as a potential adjunct treatment for epilepsy may be well warranted...
  20. ncbi The brain matrix and multifocal brain damage following a single injection of ketamine in young adult rats: conspicuous changes in old age
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 95:897-900. 2002
    ..These results suggest that the multifocal, graded neuronal loss associated with this seizure model may allow other "configurations" to emerge that can support normal behaviors as well as new characteristics...
  21. ncbi Insidious weight gain in prepubertal seized rats treated with an atypical neuroleptic: the role of food consumption, fluid consumption, and spontaneous ambulatory activity
    L S St-Pierre
    Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Epilepsy Behav 14:288-92. 2009
    ..The results suggest that the progressive weight gains are centrally mediated and are not secondary to diminished activity or altered fluid consumption...
  22. ncbi Normal spatial memory following postseizure treatment with ketamine: selective damage attenuates memory deficits in brain-damaged rodents
    S A Santi
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6
    Int J Neurosci 107:63-75. 2001
    ..Ketamine-treated rats, however, displayed markedly more damage within the entorhinal cortices and amygdalohippocampal area...
  23. ncbi Weak, physiologically patterned magnetic fields do not affect maze performance in normal rats, but disrupt seized rats normalized with ketamine: possible support for a neuromatrix concept?
    B E McKay
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont, Canada P3E 2C6
    Epilepsy Behav 8:137-44. 2006
    ..Our results represent the first empirical support for the concept of the neuromatrix...
  24. ncbi Discrete shifts within the theta band between the frontal and parietal regions of the right hemisphere and the experiences of a sensed presence
    John Nicholas Booth
    Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6
    J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 21:279-83. 2009
    ..These results are consistent with those of other measures for both schizophrenia patients and healthy volunteers; changes in activity within these regions are associated with attribution of one's thoughts and actions to another...
  25. ncbi Intracerebral source generators characterizing concentrative meditation
    Christina F Lavallee
    Psychology Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
    Cogn Process 12:141-50. 2011
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  26. ncbi Agility, gnosis, and graphaesthesia for the toes and fingers in children: normative data (ages 7-14 years)
    P M Richards
    Neuropsychology Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 114:17-29. 2004
    ..This discrepancy was not significant for boys...
  27. ncbi Extreme obesity in female rats following prepuberal induction of lithium-pilocarpine seizures and a single injection of acepromazine
    L S St-Pierre
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory and Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont, Canada
    Epilepsy Behav 7:411-8. 2005
    ..These results indicate that a single injection of a neuroleptic during limbic seizures before puberty can produce neuronal alterations that contribute to a lifetime of obesity...
  28. ncbi Sucrose ingestion decreases seizure onset time in female rats treated with lithium and pilocarpine
    M A Galic
    Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada P3E 2C6
    Epilepsy Behav 6:552-5. 2005
    ..We discuss the potential role of dopamine in mediating the sucrose-induced changes in SOT...
  29. ncbi Attenuation of epilepsy-induced brain damage in the temporal cortices of rats by exposure to LTP-patterned magnetic fields
    Natalie Lagace
    Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6
    Neurosci Lett 450:147-51. 2009
    ..The results suggest physiologically patterned magnetic fields could be employed to target specific nuclei anywhere within the brain by matching intrinsic activity...
  30. ncbi Herbal treatment following post-seizure induction in rat by lithium pilocarpine: Scutellaria lateriflora (Skullcap), Gelsemium sempervirens (Gelsemium) and Datura stramonium (Jimson Weed) may prevent development of spontaneous seizures
    Oksana Peredery
    Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Phytother Res 18:700-5. 2004
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  31. ncbi Altered neuronal densities in sexually dimorphic structures: comparable effects from perinatal magnetic fields with nitric oxide synthase inhibitors and postnatal hypoxia
    Karli K McDonald
    Behavioural Neuroscience Program, Laurentian University, Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ont, Canada P3E 2C6
    Neurosci Lett 450:37-9. 2009
    ..These results show the sensitivity of specific structures of the developing brain to interactions between subtle environmental variables...
  32. ncbi Biophoton emissions from cell cultures: biochemical evidence for the plasma membrane as the primary source
    Blake T Dotta
    Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Gen Physiol Biophys 30:301-9. 2011
    ..The results suggested the most probable origin of the photon emission was the plasma cell membrane. Measures from cells synchronized at the M- and S-phase supported this inference...
  33. ncbi Geophysical variables and behavior: LXXXVI. Geomagnetic activity as a partial parturitional trigger--are male babies more affected than female babies?
    M A Persinger
    Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario
    Percept Mot Skills 88:1177-80. 1999
    ..20, was largest for the day of birth and for the two or three days before birth. The means of the aa values for the day of birth and the day before birth for the men were about 7 nanoTesla higher than the values for the women...
  34. ncbi Persistent elevation of nocturnal activity in rodents following apparent recovery from lithium/pilocarpine-induced limbic seizures
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 86:1243-8. 1998
    ..Implications for the enhancement of nocturnal melatonin levels within the brains of these chronically epileptic rats are discussed...
  35. ncbi Suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in rats by 50-nT, 7-Hz amplitude-modulated nocturnal magnetic fields depends on when after inoculation the fields are applied
    S A Kinoshameg
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ont, Canada P3E 2C6
    Neurosci Lett 370:166-70. 2004
    ..These results suggest that the immunosuppressive effects of weak nocturnal magnetic fields may depend upon when they are applied during various stages in the development of a disease...
  36. ncbi Diurnal variation in pilocarpine-induced generalized tonic-clonic seizure activity
    L S Stewart
    Program in Neuroscience, Medical Sciences Building, The University of Western Ontario, N6A 3C1, London, Ont, Canada
    Epilepsy Res 44:207-12. 2001
    ..These data suggest that the sensitivity of the rodent brain to pilocarpine exhibits day-night variation and seizure activity induced during the dark phase may generalize via the brainstem...
  37. ncbi SPECT (HMPAO) support for activation of the medial prefrontal cortices during toe graphaesthesia
    M A Persinger
    Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 87:59-63. 1998
    ..The results are consistent with our neuropsychological research which indicates that toe graphaesthesia may be an accurate and useful indicator of the functional integrity of the medial surfaces of the anterior cerebral hemispheres...
  38. ncbi Facilitation of seizures in limbic epileptic rats by complex 1 microTesla magnetic fields
    M A Persinger
    Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 89:486-92. 1999
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  39. ncbi Enhanced mortality of rat pups following inductions of epileptic seizures after perinatal exposures to 5 nT, 7 Hz magnetic fields
    L S St Pierre
    Department of Biology, Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Canada
    Life Sci 81:1496-500. 2007
    ..These unexpected results suggest that exposure to apparently innocuous stimuli during early development may affect vulnerability to stimuli presented later in ontogeny...
  40. ncbi Synchronized feeding as a "conditioned stimulus" for overt seizures in chronically (limbic) epileptic rats: a model for "psychogenic seizures" with complex partial epilepsy
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario
    Int J Neurosci 106:169-84. 2001
    ..Implications for the occurrence of psychogenic seizures in patients with complex partial (limbic) epilepsy are discussed...
  41. ncbi Putative perception of rotating permanent magnetic fields following ingestion of LSD
    M A Persinger
    Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 87:601-2. 1998
    ..An association between these results and possible ergot-induced perceptions of "magnet light" reported during the last century by von Reichenbach (1851) is suggested...
  42. ncbi Suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in rats exposed nocturnally to magnetic fields
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 100:107-16. 2000
    ....
  43. ncbi Increased emergence of alpha activity over the left but not the right temporal lobe within a dark acoustic chamber: differential response of the left but not the right hemisphere to transcerebral magnetic fields
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Psychophysiol 34:163-9. 1999
    ..The detection of the effects of this specific complex magnetic field upon electroencephalographic activity may be more probable when the subjects are exposed to partial sensory deprivation...
  44. ncbi Circumcerebral application of weak complex magnetic fields with derivatives and changes in electroencephalographic power spectra within the theta range: implications for states of consciousness
    M A Richards
    Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 95:671-86. 2002
    ..Implications for the roles of hippocampal theta activity, cortical resonance, and Goldstone bosons in these processes are discussed...
  45. ncbi Decreased density of neurons in the medial preoptic nucleus and increased testicular weights for rats exposed perinatally to an 0.5 Hz Rotating Magnetic Field
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 2C6, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 108:99-107. 2001
    ..The heavier testicle weights replicated previous studies and suggest that permanent, selective alterations in neuronal density can also occur subsequent to perinatal exposure to relatively weak, extremely low frequency magnetic fields...
  46. ncbi Working memory and reference memory in adult rats following limbic seizures induced at 21 or 90 days of age
    S E Kinoshameg
    Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
    Psychol Rep 91:729-30. 2002
    ..One possible explanation for this discrepancy might be differential effects upon brain organization associated with seizures evoked by injecting the pilocarpine 24 hr. rather than 4 hr. after the lithium...
  47. ncbi Bilingual men but not women display less left ear but not right ear accuracy during dichotic listening compared to monolinguals
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Departments of Biology and Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6
    Int J Neurosci 112:55-63. 2002
    ..Implications for the relative accuracies of verbal memory are considered...
  48. ncbi Seizure onset times for rats receiving systemic lithium and pilocarpine: sources of variability
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6
    Pharmacol Biochem Behav 71:7-17. 2002
    ....
  49. ncbi Weight gain in post-seized rats is facilitated by adding aspirin, glucose, or glucose-taurine-acetaminophen to food mush
    C Jedrzejko
    Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario
    Psychol Rep 89:188-90. 2001
    ..We suggest inhibiting prostaglandins by anti-inflammatory compounds or stimulating the GABA shunt pathway through enhanced dietary glucose to accelerate weight gain following the significant loss that accompanies brain injury...
  50. ncbi Synergistic induction of severe hypothermia (poikilothermia) by limbic seizures, acepromazine and physical restraint: role of noradrenergic alpha-1 receptors
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6
    Pharmacol Biochem Behav 70:341-52. 2001
    ..Rats that had been restrained or not restrained and displayed either euthermia or hypothermia exhibited significantly different patterns in brain damage within limbic and thalamic structures...
  51. ncbi Emergent properties following brain injury: the claustrum as a major component of a pathway that influences nociceptive thresholds to foot shock in rats
    M A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 85:387-98. 1997
    ..The concept of primary pathways versus "emergent" pathways subsequent to excitotoxic damage within the neuromatrix is discussed...
  52. ncbi A LORETA study of mental time travel: similar and distinct electrophysiological correlates of re-experiencing past events and pre-experiencing future events
    Christina F Lavallee
    Psychology Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
    Conscious Cogn 19:1037-44. 2010
    ..Furthermore, research from this experiment yields results outlining a pattern of activation in the frontal and temporal regions is correlated with the time frame of past or future events subjects imagined...
  53. ncbi A quantitative electroencephalographic study of meditation and binaural beat entrainment
    Christina F Lavallee
    Psychology Department, Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    J Altern Complement Med 17:351-5. 2011
    ..The study objective was to determine the quantitative electroencephalographic correlates of meditation, as well as the effects of hindering (15?Hz) and facilitative (7?Hz) binaural beats on the meditative process...
  54. ncbi Prenatal exposures to LTP-patterned magnetic fields: quantitative effects on specific limbic structures and acquisition of contextually conditioned fear
    P D Whissell
    Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 119:1-14. 2009
    ....
  55. ncbi Increased theta activity in quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) measurements during exposure to complex weak magnetic fields
    J N Booth
    Consciousness Research Laboratory Behavioural Neuroscience Program Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada
    Electromagn Biol Med 27:426-36. 2008
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  56. ncbi Profound hypothermia determines the anticonvulsant and neuroprotective effects of swim stress
    N M Fournier
    Department of Psychology, Neural Systems and Plasticity Research Group, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
    Brain Res 1240:153-64. 2008
    ..These results suggest that dramatically lowered body temperature could be the critical factor that produces the anticonvulsive and neuroprotective effects of swim stress...
  57. ncbi Ambulatory effects of brief exposures to magnetic fields changing orthogonally in space over time
    L S St Pierre
    Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 117:417-20. 2007
    ..These results suggest that robust behavioral changes can occur when rats are exposed for 15 min to complex spatiotemporal configurations of weak magnetic fields...
  58. ncbi Experimental facilitation of the sensed presence is predicted by the specific patterns of the applied magnetic fields, not by suggestibility: re-analyses of 19 experiments
    L S St-Pierre
    Behavioral Neuroscience Research Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 116:1079-96. 2006
    ..The importance of verifying the specific timing and temporal pattern of the software-generated fields and following an effective protocol is emphasized...
  59. ncbi Increased analgesia to thermal stimuli in rats after brief exposures to complex pulsed 1 microTesla magnetic fields
    M C Ryczko
    Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 95:592-8. 2002
    ..These results replicated previous studies and suggest that weak, extremely low frequency, pulsed magnetic fields with biorelevant temporal structures may have utility as adjuncts for treatment of pain...
  60. ncbi Mechanical impacts to the skulls of rats produce specific deficits in maze performance and weight loss: evidence for apoptosis of cortical neurons and implications for clinical neuropsychology
    W E Lado
    Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 97:1115-27. 2003
    ..Because apoptosis is involved with minimal inflammation and edema, detection of diffuse apoptosis by MRI and CT would be unlikely even though the influence on adaptability would be significant...
  61. ncbi Average diurnal changes in melatonin levels are associated with hourly incidence of bereavement apparitions: support for the hypothesis of temporal (limbic) lobe microseizuring
    M A Persinger
    Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 76:444-6. 1993
    ....
  62. ncbi Conditioned taste aversion is not disrupted in rats exposed to weak, complex magnetic fields during the CS-UCS interval
    B E McKay
    Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 97:1335-8. 2003
    ..exposure to weak magnetic fields designed to simulate the pattern of two structures likely involved with conditioned taste aversion between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus did not affect this behavior...
  63. ncbi Normal spatial and contextual learning for ketamine-treated rats in the pilocarpine epilepsy model
    B E McKay
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6
    Pharmacol Biochem Behav 78:111-9. 2004
    ..This cognitive sparing occurs despite earlier findings that the mean amount of total brain damage with LI-PILO is equivalent for Ket and Ace rats...
  64. ncbi Influence of a complex magnetic field application in rats upon thermal nociceptive thresholds: the importance of polarity and timing
    L J Martin
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 114:1259-76. 2004
    ..The current results suggest that these fields can be generated through simple commercial devices controlled by available computer software...
  65. ncbi Geophysical variables and behavior: XCI. Ambulatory behavior in rats following prenatal exposures to complex magnetic fields designed to interact with genetic expression
    M A Persinger
    Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario
    Percept Mot Skills 92:183-92. 2001
    ..The results suggest that complexity of the applied magnetic field during prenatal development may be more important than intensity for permanently affecting neuronal organization and behavior...
  66. ncbi Complex magnetic fields enable static magnetic field cue use for rats in radial maze tasks
    B E McKay
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 115:625-48. 2005
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  67. ncbi Normalization of spatial learning despite brain damage in rats receiving ketamine after seizure-induction: evidence for the neuromatrix
    L N Vaillancourt
    Laurentian University, Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6
    Psychol Rep 88:102-10. 2001
    ..Implications for the concept of the neuromatrix, if valid, are discussed...
  68. ncbi Postnatal anoxia from CO2 for one minute produces sex-specific changes in contextual fear conditioning in adult rats
    A J Golanski
    Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 93:677-8. 2001
    ..The results suggest that only 1 min. of preweaning anoxia may produce permanent changes in contextual fear conditioning for male but not female rats...
  69. ncbi Power increases within the gamma range over the frontal and occipital regions during acute exposures to cerebrally counterclockwise rotating magnetic fields with specific derivatives of change
    E W Tsang
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 114:1183-93. 2004
    ..These results suggest topical application of specific spatial-temporal configurations of magnetic fields may affect the recursive creation of the rostral-caudal waves of cohesive fields that might produce consciousness...
  70. ncbi Remote viewing with the artist Ingo Swann: neuropsychological profile, electroencephalographic correlates, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and possible mechanisms
    M A Persinger
    Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 94:927-49. 2002
    ..Remote viewing may be enhanced by complex experimentally generated magnetic fields designed to interact with the neuromagnetic "binding factor" of consciousness...
  71. ncbi Planarian activity differences when maintained in water pre-treated with magnetic fields: a nonlinear effect
    Noa Gang
    Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Electromagn Biol Med 30:198-204. 2011
    ..These results imply that nonlinear biophysical effects may emerge under specific conditions of intensity ranges for particular volumes of water...
  72. ncbi Specific patterns of weak (1 microTesla) transcerebral complex magnetic fields differentially affect depression, fatigue, and confusion in normal volunteers
    Eric W Tsang
    Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Electromagn Biol Med 28:365-73. 2009
    ..These results replicate previous studies and indicate that rationally designed complex patterns of magnetic fields may simulate pharmacological treatments...
  73. ncbi Chronobiometry of behavioral activity in the Ts65Dn model of Down syndrome
    Lee S Stewart
    Brain and Behavior Research Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada
    Behav Genet 37:388-98. 2007
    ..These results serve as a starting point for further investigations into the physiological basis of sleep-wake disturbances in DS patients...
  74. ncbi Conspicuous histomorphological anomalies in the hippocampal formation of rats exposed prenatally to a complex sequenced magnetic field within the nanoTesla range
    Linda S St-Pierre
    Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 97:1307-14. 2003
    ..3 mG and .5 mG (30 nT to 50 nT). The results suggest that complex magnetic fields, whose temporal structures approach the time constants of normal biochemical processes, can permanently alter the development of the brain...
  75. ncbi Geophysical variables and behavior: XCII. Experimental elicitation of the experience of a sentient being by right hemispheric, weak magnetic fields: interaction with temporal lobe sensitivity
    C M Cook
    Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 92:447-8. 2001
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  76. ncbi Experimental production of illusory (false) memories in reconstructions of narratives: effect size and potential mediation by right hemispheric stimulation from complex, weak magnetic fields
    F Healey
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 106:195-207. 2001
    ..Whereas verbatim memories showed a strong primacy effect inferential memories exhibited a strong recency effect (eta(2) =.66)...
  77. ncbi Radial maze proficiency of adult Wistar rats given prenatal complex magnetic field treatments
    B E McKay
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, P3E 2C6
    Dev Psychobiol 42:1-8. 2003
    ..These results provide the first evidence that prenatal exposures to specific shapes of CMFs impair complex learning behaviors into adulthood...
  78. ncbi Combined effects of complex magnetic fields and agmatine for contextual fear learning deficits in rats
    B E McKay
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Ontario, P3E 2C6, Sudbury, Canada
    Life Sci 72:2489-98. 2003
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  79. ncbi Does phase-modulation of applied 40-Hz transcerebral magnetic fields affect subjective experiences and hypnotic induction?
    Lauren Sculthorpe
    Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 97:1031-7. 2003
    ..The groups exposed to either the 5-Hz or 40-Hz/5-Hz phase-modulated field displayed greater durations of alpha rhythms over the temporal lobes than the other two groups...
  80. ncbi Application of transcerebral, weak (1 microT) complex magnetic fields and mystical experiences: are they generated by field-induced dimethyltryptamine release from the pineal organ?
    D R Hill
    Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Percept Mot Skills 97:1049-50. 2003
    ..If this speculation is valid, then subjects who are exposed to the very weak, complex fields known to elicit similar experiences should display significant increases in the metabolites of this compound within their blood...
  81. ncbi Increased feelings of the sensed presence and increased geomagnetic activity at the time of the experience during exposures to transcerebral weak complex magnetic fields
    J N Booth
    Behavioral Neursocience Laboratory, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Neurosci 115:1053-79. 2005
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  82. ncbi Behavioral changes in adult rats after prenatal exposures to complex, weak magnetic fields
    L S St-Pierre
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Departments of Biology and Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury Ontario, Canada
    Electromagn Biol Med 27:355-64. 2008
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  83. ncbi Growth of injected melanoma cells is suppressed by whole body exposure to specific spatial-temporal configurations of weak intensity magnetic fields
    Jing H Hu
    Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    Int J Radiat Biol 86:79-88. 2010
    ..To measure the effect of exposure to a specific spatial-temporal, hysiologically-patterned electromagnetic field presented using different geometric configurations on the growth of experimental tumours in mice...
  84. ncbi Hemispheric asymmetry (lateralization) in electroencephalographic activity while viewing familiar and unfamiliar patterns from Kimura figures
    Michael A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Departments of Biology and Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6
    Int J Neurosci 112:65-79. 2002
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  85. ncbi The sensed presence within experimental settings: implications for the male and female concept of self
    Michael A Persinger
    Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    J Psychol 137:5-16. 2003
    ..Sociobiological implications for gender differences in the probability of intercalation between distinctive processes within the left and right temporoparietal lobes are discussed...