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Michael A. Persinger

Michael A. Persinger

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Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
10389
World Ranking
5427
National Ranking
368

Overview

Michael A. Persinger was affiliated with Laurentian University in Canada. Their research spanned several fields, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Environmental Science.

Their work included contributions to the subfields of Physiology, Biophysics, Pollution, Molecular Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Central topics addressed by their research encompassed:

  • Electromagnetic Fields and Biological Effects
  • Biofield Effects and Biophysics
  • Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence Research
  • Magnetic and Electromagnetic Effects
  • Cephalopods and Marine Biology
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts

Their recent publications included:

  • Ultraweak Photon Emissions as a Non-Invasive, Early-Malignancy Detection Tool: An In Vitro and In Vivo Study, 2020, published in Cancers
  • Sensitivity of Planaria to Weak, Patterned Electric Current and the Subsequent Correlative Interactions with Fluctuations in the Intensity of the Magnetic Field of Earth, 2020, published in J - Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal
  • Evaluation of cross-generational exposure to microplastics and co-occurring contaminants on embryonic and larval behavior in fathead minnows, Pimephales promelas, 2025, published in PeerJ

Frequent coauthors who collaborated with Michael A. Persinger included:

  • Blake T. Dotta
  • Nirosha J. Murugan
  • Lukasz M. Karbowski
  • Victoria L. Hossack
  • Jessica L. Ward

Their work was frequently published in venues such as:

  • Cancers
  • J - Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal
  • PeerJ

Best Publications

  • Neuropsychological bases of God beliefs

    Michael A. Persinger

  • Religious and mystical experiences as artifacts of temporal lobe function: a general hypothesis.

    Michael A. Persinger

  • Temporal lobe epileptic signs and correlative behaviors displayed by normal populations.

    Michael A. Persinger;Katherine Makarec

  • Physiological and cognitive correlates of child abuse

    Normand J. Carrey;Hendrik J. Butter;Michael A. Persinger;Robert J. Bialik

  • The neuropsychiatry of paranormal experiences.

    Michael A. Persinger

  • Vectorial Cerebral Hemisphericity as Differential Sources for the Sensed Presence, Mystical Experiences and Religious Conversions:

    Persinger Ma

  • Complex partial epileptic signs as a continuum from normals to epileptics: Normative data and clinical populations

    Michael A. Persinger;Katherine Makarec

  • Experimental facilitation of the sensed presence: possible intercalation between the hemispheres induced by complex magnetic fields.

    Michael A Persinger;Faye Healey

  • The weather matrix and human behavior

    Michael A. Persinger

  • Experimental Induction of the “Sensed Presence” in Normal Subjects and an Exceptional Subject

    C M Cook;M A Persinger

  • Dream ESP experiments and geomagnetic activity.

    Michael A. Persinger;Stanley Krippner

  • Increased geomagnetic activity and the occurrence of bereavement hallucinations: evidence for melatonin-mediated microseizuring in the temporal lobe?

    Michael A. Persinger

  • Behaviors of rats with insidious, multifocal brain damage induced by seizures following single peripheral injections of lithium and pilocarpine

    Michael A Persinger;Yves R.J Bureau;Maria Kostakos;Oksana Peredery

  • Lag responses in mood reports to changes in the weather matrix.

    M. A. Persinger

  • Striking EEG Profiles from Single Episodes of Glossolalia and Transcendental Meditation

    Michael A. Persinger

  • 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☆

    B.T. Dotta;K.S. Saroka;M.A. Persinger

  • ELF and VLF electromagnetic field effects

    Michael A. Persinger

  • Electroencephalographic validation of a temporal lobe signs inventory in a normal population

    Katherine Makarec;Michael A. Persinger

  • Characteristics of limbic seizures evoked by peripheral injections of lithium and pilocarpine.

    Michael A. Persinger;Katherine Makarec;Jean-Claude Bradley

  • Thermal analgesic effects from weak, complex magnetic fields and pharmacological interactions.

    L.J Martin;S.A Koren;M.A Persinger

  • Geophysical Variables and Behavior: XXX. Intense Paranormal Experiences Occur during Days of Quiet, Global, Geomagnetic Activity:

    Michael A. Persinger

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