Rahul Venugopal

About

I work as a cognitive scientist at the Centre for Consciousness Studies, NIMHANS, India. I am an engineer turned neuroscientist.

I am exploring ways to study the "Phenomenal Self" and its deviations across a spectrum of non-ordinary states of consciousness (Meditation, Neuro-psychiatric conditions, Autism etc.)

Employment

• NIMHANS Cognitive Scientist
  2025 - Present
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences Senior Research Fellow
  2018 - 2024
• NIMHANS Junior Research Fellow
  2016 - 2018

Education

• NIMHANS PhD in Cognitive Neurosciences
  2018 - 2024
• National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences MPhil in Neurosciences
  2014 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (13)

• An Open-Source End-to-End Pipeline for Large-Scale EEG-Based Brain Age Modelling
  2026 DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.04.742735
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• EEG Phase Slips Reveal Detailed Brain Activity Patterns of Novice Vipassana Meditators During Decision Making Tasks
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.03.674031
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• Similar States, Different Paths: Neurodynamics of diverse meditation techniques
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.20.660652
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• Non-duality in brain and experience of advanced meditators – Key role for Intrinsic Neural Timescales
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.04.21.649758
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• Personalized Theta Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation and Gamma Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Bring Differential Neuromodulatory Effects on the Resting Electroencephalogram: Characterizing the Temporal, Spatial, and Spectral Dime…
  Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.08.008
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• Time-to-onset and temporal dynamics of EEG during breath-watching meditation
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.11.637771
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• The Balanced Mind and its Intrinsic Neural Timescales in Advanced Meditators
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.29.609126
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• Assessment of ultra-short term heart rate variability indices in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
  Sleep Medicine 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2023.11.264
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• Age associated changes in sleep spindle characteristics in Vipasana meditator: A whole night polysomnography study
  Sleep Medicine 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2022.05.019
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• Simple Neurofeedback via Machine Learning: Challenges in real time multivariate assessment of meditation state
  2022 DOI: 10.1101/2022.09.27.509655
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