A redical way to help to reduce depression

Are you depressed? Do not worry. Depressive disorders affect approximately 18.8 million American adults or about 9.5% of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year. Furthermore, everyone, at some time in their life, will be affected by depression. Moreover, pre-schoolers are the fastest-growing market for antidepressants. At least four percent of preschoolers (over a million) are clinically depressed.However, do you know what Depression is? From the point of view of neurology, depression is a brainwave imbalance common to depressed individuals. Depressed people tend to have an hyperactive right (emotional) hemisphere dominating their...

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New startup makes available free online therapies to treat common afflictions

To help people face stress, depression, anxiety, fibromyalgia, insomnia and other 30 common afflictions in the comfort of your home or office, Mentallion.com has unleashed a line of free basic online therapies based on sounds and music supported by brainwave entrainment technologies.Lima, Pe (XXX) Jun 27, 2009 -- A new startup, Mentallion.com, has unleashed proven, inexpensive, unintrusive, and mostly unknown technology to cope with common afflictions such as such as migraine, depression, and stress, as well as special sessions to strengthen mental skills, such as creativity, concentration, and IQ, among other 30 therapies.By harnessing the power of brainwave entrainment, Mentallion.com has unleashed a powerful online tool to relief and enhance the mind. Based on 70 years of scientific research,...

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The use of Breainwave Entrainment (BE) for Hypertension Treatment

IntroductionHypertension is a life-threatening condition that affects over 60 million North American adults. A variety of drugs are used to treat it, primarily by causing vascular dilatation or decreasing sympathetic arousal. These drugs produce a myriad of troubling side effects and yet cost the average American about $800 per year for medications. Lifestyle changes, particularly improvements in diet, reduce systolic pressure by 5 points (mmHg) and diastolic pressure by 2 points (mmHg). Most single hypertension drugs reduce systolic pressure by 11 points and diastolic pressure by 8.5 points. (Figure 1). Combining various hypertension drugs decreases systolic blood pressure by an average of 18 points and diastolic by 12 points, with increased medication related side effects.MethodAll of the...

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Brainwave Entrainment (BE) as a Treatment Modality for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

ProblemEach year, 6% of northern populations are affected with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Women through the ages of 20 to 40 are most vulnerable (Rosenthal, 1993). The common symptoms are slow brainwave activity, depression, anxiety, extreme fatigue, hypersomnia, carbohydrate cravings, and weight gain. "Light box" therapy has reduced symptoms of SAD in 60% to 80% of SAD patients (Lam, 1999). The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of Audio-Visual Entrainment (BE) using flashing lights and pulsing tones to lower SAD symptoms through beta brainwave enhancement.MethodThe Digital Audio-Visual Integration Device (DAVID) by Comptronic Devices Limited was used in a 4-week study to reduce the symptoms of SAD through the application of BE. The participants were screened according...

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The Use of Brain Entrainment (BE) in the Treatement of Fibromyalgia / Chronic Pain

This study, by Dr. Fred Boersma, shows a chronic pain patient's progress as a result of BE stimulation. This patient, sustained a back injury several years prior to this study and was taking an average of 35 Extra Strength Tylenol daily before BE sessions were introduced. He had attempted suicide one month prior to the beginning of the study, but luckily was rescued by a family member. He stated that if the BE therapy did not help him, he would attempt suicide again. We are pleased to report that he is alive today.Figure 1 shows ratings on a variety of stress monitors. It shows that his baseline pain level, medication usage, suicidal ideation...

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Hypertension treatment with brainwave entrainment

Today in our society, hypertension or high blood pressure became an important problem in our society today. A reduction in daily stress, a change on diet , and some medications are usually recommended. But can entrainment technology help with this serious problem?Innumerable studies have proven the relaxing effects of brainwave entrainment. In fact, brainwave stimulation is capable of relaxing users to deeper levels than any other traditional self-help technique.When most people are simply instructed to relax, very little muscle tension release is recorded, and in many cases tension actually increases though the subject my report of feeling or being more relaxed.However, when the body is guided to a relaxation state by brainwave entrainment, the body falls into a profpindly deep state of relaxation,...

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A brief history of Brainwave Entrainment

Ptolemy (a.d. 90 - a.d. 168), a mathematician / geographer / astronomer / astrologer, was the first known scientist to recognize and to document the light (photic) stimulation (brainwave entrainment). When he looked through a spinning spoked wheel toward the sun he noticed that the wheel seemed to stop moving when it got to a certain speed. He also experienced seeing patterns and colors because of the flickering sunlight.It was not until 1834 - 1835 when an English named Talbot and a Belgian named Plateau demonstrated again the flicker phenomenon.Sixty years later in 1895 entrainment history took a jump when the illusion of colors produced by flickering light was demonstrated by C. E. Benham through his invention - the "artificial spectrum top."Few years later (1899), Pierre Marie Félix...

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Mixing music with binaural beats for better brainwaev entrainment

As you know, human brainwaves can be stimulated with binaural beats. While human perceptions of sound ranges from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, the frequencies of human brain waves are between 0 - 40 Hz.Therefore to stimulate the brain is enough to produce different frequencies of sound in each ear to get the desired effect n the brain. For example, if a 315 Hz sine wave is played into the right ear and a 325 Hz one into the left ear, the brain is entrained towards the beat frequency -10 Hz- or the alpha range and in in the same way for the nexts braiwaves.However, the pure tones can became boring. What happen if I mix binaural beats with music? The answer is that the mixing will work while you can hear the beats and the piece of music match with the intention of the therapy. For example you won't...

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