Gender specific altered states of consciousness

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 17 (2):181-185 (1998)
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Abstract

The psychological state and neural correlates of 19 women undergoing normal childbirth were studied. Frequent occurence of nonordinary psychological phenomena was traced back in 6 subjects, occurring in active and passive alertness, as well as hypnagogic/hypnopompic periods, and in dreaming, during the late period of pregnancy, giving birth, and the period of 2-4 days post partull. The brain activity of the aforementioned subgroup during this time was characterized primarily by general activation of the right hemisphere in the bandpass of infraslow electrical processes and by more localized EEG activation. The implications of the data for research on gender-specific altered states of consciousness are discussed

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