title: Increased photon emission from the head while imagining light in the dark is correlated with changes in electroencephalographic power: support for Bókkon's biophoton hypothesis.
abstract: Bókkon's hypothesis that photons released from chemical processes within the brain produce biophysical pictures during visual imagery has been supported experimentally. In the present study measurements by a photomultiplier tube also demonstrated significant increases in ultraweak photon emissions (UPEs) or biophotons equivalent to about 5×10(-11)W/m(2) from the right sides of volunteer's heads when they imagined light in a very dark environment compared to when they did not. Simultaneous variations in regional quantitative electroencephalographic spectral power (μV(2)/Hz) and total energy in the range of ∼10(-12)J from concurrent biophoton emissions were strongly correlated (r=0.95). The calculated energy was equivalent to that associated with action potentials from about 10(7) cerebral cortical neurons. We suggest these results support Bókkon's hypothesis that specific visual imagery is strongly correlated with ultraweak photon emission coupled to brain activity.
authors.affiliation: Behavioural Neuroscience Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 2C6.
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Dotta
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Saroka
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Persinger
mesh_terms: D001703:Biophysics; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination / Q000502:physiology*; D008027:Light; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D017785:Photons