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Small studies of 40Hz sensory stimulation confirm safety, suggest Alzheimer's benefits (“Significant effects on cognitive measures”)
Medical Xpress / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / PLoS ONE ^ | Dec. 1, 2022 | Diane Chan, Ph.D. et al

Posted on 12/26/2022 8:22:02 AM PST by ConservativeMind

Clinical studies testing the safety and efficacy of 40Hz sensory stimulation to treat Alzheimer's disease have found the therapy was well tolerated, produced no serious adverse effects and was associated with some significant neurological and behavioral benefits.

Tsai's lab discovered exposing mice to light flickering or sound clicking at the gamma-band brain rhythm frequency of 40Hz produced improvements in learning and memory; reduced brain atrophy, neuron and synapse loss; and showed lower levels of hallmark Alzheimer's proteins amyloid beta and phosphorylated tau.

In the Phase 1 study, volunteers filled out a questionnaire. Meanwhile, measurements taken with EEG scalp electrodes clustered at frontal and occipital sites showed significant increases in 40Hz rhythm power at each cortical site among cognitively normal younger and older participants as well as volunteers with mild Alzheimer's. The readings also demonstrated significant increase in coherence at the 40Hz frequency between the two sites. Between the two volunteers with epilepsy, measurements showed significant increases in 40Hz power in deeper brain regions such as the gyrus rectus, amygdala, hippocampus and insula with no adverse events including seizures.

In the Phase 2A study, volunteers treated with 40Hz stimulation experienced several beneficial effects that reached statistical significance. Control participants exhibited two signs of brain atrophy: reduced volume of the hippocampus and increased volume of open spaces, or ventricles. Treated patients did not experience significant changes in these measures. Treated patients also exhibited better connectivity across brain regions involved in the brain's default mode and medial visual networks, which are related to cognition and visual processing respectively. Treated patients also exhibited more consistent sleep patterns.

Neither treatment and control groups showed any differences after just three months on most cognitive tests, but the treatment group did perform significantly better on a face-name association test, a memory task with a strong visual component.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: alzheimer; alzheimers; eeg; eegscalp
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This therapy might get a little annoying, but it seems to quickly effect changes in multiple ways.

You can find apps and computer programs that will flash light or make sounds as such frequencies. Some equipment will let you choose 40Hz light or sound, as well.

1 posted on 12/26/2022 8:22:02 AM PST by ConservativeMind
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2 posted on 12/26/2022 8:22:42 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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3 posted on 12/26/2022 8:26:51 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ConservativeMind

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=life.alz.alzlife&gl=US&pli=1

https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-setup-LED-lights-flickering-precisely-at-40-Hz

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/5hkz57/i_made_an_antialzheimers_40hz_gamma_flicker_based/


4 posted on 12/26/2022 8:29:27 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I think that’s around the lowest Eb on the piano, so the technology is there😉


5 posted on 12/26/2022 8:30:44 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: ConservativeMind

I use one of these machines as part of my wake up routine. Its a nova pro 100. flashes light and sound. stimulates the frontal cortex.


6 posted on 12/26/2022 8:31:44 AM PST by ckilmer (q)
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To: ConservativeMind

BrainSync.com. Binaural beat audio on CDROM or MP3. Use headphones.


7 posted on 12/26/2022 8:38:17 AM PST by Myrddin
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“I think that’s around the lowest Eb on the piano, so the technology is there.”

On an electric bass at concert pitch, the open E string vibrates at 42 hertz. With a tuner, you can easily tune that to 40, and detune the other strings 2 hertz so the tuning all matches. The same can be done with every electric keyboard I’ve seen for years now. Tune the keyboard down 2 “cents” from 440 hertz (A note) to 438 and the low E will be at 40 hertz.


8 posted on 12/26/2022 8:39:40 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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Hmmm, 432 Hz is cited as the best brain syncing and healing tone.


9 posted on 12/26/2022 8:47:58 AM PST by null and void (It’s not far-right to prevent mass starvation. It’s far-left to cause mass starvation.)
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“Hmmm, 432 Hz is cited as the best brain syncing and healing tone.”

Yes, a few records have been recorded using that tuning. It does sound different from 440 which is a bit more strident. It easier for most people (including me) to sing in that tuning also.


10 posted on 12/26/2022 8:57:18 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: ConservativeMind

These researchers don’t know what they are doing. I’m sure the rat brain wave frequencies do not go anywhere near the prefrontal virtex analytical thinking neuronal fisring rate of 30 Hz.

Thus, with rats there would be minimal influence on brain function at 40 Hz.

When the human brain moves from 30 Hz to 40 Hz it goes into a higher dream state of lucid dreaming.

Above 40 Hz is moving into the gamna frequency which can cause psychotic breaks in patients.

If a person is balanced and purified enough in their consciousness, 40 Hz can lift them up. If not, it will shake them up and potentially cause damage.

I’ve been researching brain wave frequencies and Transmagnetic Cranial Stimulation techniques for 20+ years.


11 posted on 12/26/2022 9:12:27 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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There are many variables they are not considering. Phase changes, voltage, amperage, direction of flow, amplitude within frequency, masculine vs feminine consciousness.....


12 posted on 12/26/2022 9:16:44 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: ConservativeMind

Seems to me that headaches will result.


13 posted on 12/26/2022 9:29:21 AM PST by fso301
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To: ConservativeMind

“Binaural beats” pulse differing frequencies into one’s ears, which is supposed to help with changing one’s brain waves.
I have zero clue with respect to its veracity.


14 posted on 12/26/2022 9:40:44 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Red Badger
In the Phase 1 study, volunteers filled out a questionnaire. Meanwhile, measurements taken with EEG scalp electrodes clustered at frontal and occipital sites showed significant increases in 40Hz rhythm power at each cortical site among cognitively normal younger and older participants...

We've seen this movie:

You've come here from a great distance...


15 posted on 12/26/2022 9:41:55 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: ConservativeMind

I call bs. The MA medical community trying to repurpose its immoral and torturous electro-therapy, being sunset by victims of psych Drs there.
All US states and counties around the world have declared electro-therapy cruel and unusual, but for the remaining psycopaths in Boston posing as Drs. Same people impose the c19 jab.


16 posted on 12/26/2022 9:50:24 AM PST by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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ON the other hand, here is
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6506148B2/en

Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors

Granted in 2003, expiration sometime in 2021, meaning it is now in the public domain.

So just maybe, even the phrase “tin foil hat” was them announcing what they were really doing.


17 posted on 12/26/2022 11:22:26 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))
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Yes, but they have 2 new gullible generations that implicitly trust “The Science” and Algorithms.


18 posted on 12/26/2022 11:27:23 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Machine-gun jumblies. How'd I miss that? - Austin Powers 2)
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To: ConservativeMind

40-Hz Binaural beats enhance training to mitigate the attentional blink

Taken together, 40-Hz BB stimulation during training accelerates the training outcome. The improvement becomes evident not immediately, but after consolidation during sleep. Therefore, auditory beats stimulation is a promising method of non-invasive brain stimulation for enhancing training and learning which is well-suited to rehabilitation training.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63980-y


19 posted on 12/26/2022 4:10:55 PM PST by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: GreatRoad

Yep, insightful comments had they been uttered 50+ years ago.

False and delusional currently and no relevance to the article topic.

If “All U.S. States” recognize ECT as “cruel and unusual” why is the contemporary procedure universally recognized as safe and the most effective for treatment-resistant depression in both public and private hospitals?


20 posted on 12/26/2022 4:43:21 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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