Quantitative EEG Changes in Youth With ASD Following Brief Mindfulness Meditation Exercise.

ABSTRACT: Mindfulness has growing empirical support for improving emotion regulation in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Mindfulness is cultivated through meditation practices. Assessing the role of mindfulness in improving emotion regulation is challenging given the reliance on self-report tools. Electroencephalography (EEG) has successfully quantified neural responses to emotional arousal and meditation in other populations, making it ideal to objectively measure neural responses before and after mindfulness (MF) practice among individuals with ASD. We performed an EEG-based analysis during a resting state paradigm in 35 youth with ASD. Specifically, we developed a machine learning classifier and a feature and channel selection approach that separates resting states preceding (Pre-

SUBMITTER: Susam BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9979338 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature