Potential of binaural beats intervention for improving memory and attention: insights from meta-analysis and systematic review

Basu, Sandhya; Banerjee, Bidisha

doi:10.1007/s00426-022-01706-7

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“…Most music therapy research suggests that music stimulus alone is not enough to observe enduring changes-it must be paired with effective therapeutic methods (Aalbers et al, 2017;Landis-Shack et al, 2017). However, there has been some indication that other forms of auditory stimulation can have enduring effects on anxiety and pain (Gkolias et al, 2020), as well as memory and attention (Basu and Banerjee, 2023), without the need for active psychotherapy. Psyrreal (Kaup et al, 2023) and Isness-D (Glowacki et al, 2022) offer some preliminary positive evidence for purely sensory-driven NSCs (with some caveats for each).…”

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Therapeutic dissociation: From non-ordinary states to psychological transformation

Clingo

2024

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Common mental health pathologies such as depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD have recently seen treatment inroads. These issues share a phenomenological core—a dissociative quality that involves the distintegration of self and other. Interestingly, some of the most effective treatments of these pathologies are themselvesacutely dissociative. For example, psychedelic therapy has been effective at treating these pathologies and involves highly dissociative altered states. This pattern holds across other dissociative methods such as hypnosis, CBT, and meditation, leading some to hypothesize that there is a common pathway from acutely altered states to long-term treatment of conditions that involve pathological dissociation. Among the proposed mechanisms are pivotal mental states, the entropic brain, REBUS, and pattern breaking. In this paper, I highlight the methods and mechanisms behind the observed clinical efficacy in treating pathologically dissociative mental health issues. I also propose a simplified underlying structure and an experimental approach that could result in effective treatment without complicated pharmacological interventions.

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Therapeutic dissociation: From non-ordinary states to psychological transformation

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2024

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“…The intervention was conducted in the room of the individual participant each time. The frequency, duration, and length of the listening sessions in this study were designed with reference to the findings of a meta‐analysis study by Basu and Banerjee 46 …”

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“…The frequency, duration, and length of the listening sessions in this study were designed with reference to the findings of a meta-analysis study by Basu and Banerjee. 46 BBM group: the participant sat on a chair with eyes closed and wore over-ear stereo headphones to listen to 15 min of Taiwanese Hokkien oldies (familiar music, which could be selected by the participant) with BBM embedded. In the morning, 25 Hz (β frequency) was embedded.…”

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Examining the effects of binaural beat music on sleep quality, heart rate variability, and depression in older people with poor sleep quality in a long‐term care institution: A randomized controlled trial

Lin,

Fu,

Lee

et al. 2024

Geriatrics Gerontology Int

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ObjectiveThis study aimed to examine the effects of binaural beat music (BBM) on sleep quality, heart rate variability, and depression in older people with poor sleep quality in a long‐term care institution.MethodsA single‐blind randomized controlled trial design was employed, and 64 older participants with poor sleep quality were recruited from a long‐term care institution in Taiwan. Participants were randomized into the BBM group or control group and received 14 days of intervention. During the intervention period, participants in the experimental group listened to 20 min of Taiwanese Hokkien oldies embedded with BBM once in the morning and afternoon three times a week. Participants in the control group only listened to Taiwanese Hokkien oldies. Questionnaires and heart rate variability analysis were used to assess participants' sleep quality, heart rate variability, and depressive symptoms.ResultsSignificant improvements were observed in sleep quality, along with an increase in heart rate variability means of heart rate and normal sinus beats, and a decrease in low‐frequency normalized units and depression severity in the BBM group after the intervention. In the control group, effects on sleep quality were inconsistent, heart rate variability showed significant improvements in some autonomic nervous function regulation, and depression severity was significantly decreased. Furthermore, the BBM group showed a significant improvement in sleep quality and a significant reduction in sympathetic nervous activity compared with the control group.ConclusionThis study demonstrates that 14 days of BBM intervention, a non‐invasive intervention, could improve sleep quality and depression in older people with poor sleep quality in long‐term care institutions. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2024; ••: ••–••.

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“…For instance, while delta rhythm is associated with deep sleep, increased delta rhythm is also associated with greater concentration relating to working memory tasks (Harmony, 2013) and theta rhythm is correlated with greater cognitive load (Klimesch, 1999). In another BB meta-analytic study, the researchers observed a near-moderate (g = 0.40) and mixed results particularly for theta and beta BB's effectiveness on recognition memory, recall, and attention related tasks (Basu & Banerjee, 2022). This necessitates further investigations on low frequency BBs particularly for effects on speci c cognitive abilities, speci cally when brainwave entrainment may not necessarily precede BB effect, e.g., change in psychologic state such as lower depression despite a lack of brainwave entrainment through BB .…”

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Low frequency binaural beats in instrumental music affects verbal memory but not false recall

Tay,

Lin,

Lam

et al. 2023

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Binaural beats (BB) are produced when pure tones of slightly different frequencies are presented to each ear and may have therapeutic effects such as reduced anxiety and improved memory. While the effect of BB on anxiety has been investigated extensively, few studies explored the effect of BB on verbal memory and false memory. In the current double-blinded study, we investigated how BB overlaid with instrumental music affect memory for a list of words. 151 undergraduate participants (23% males) were randomized into one of three conditions to listen to a 30-min soundtrack: music with BB (n = 52), music only (n = 52), or audiobook (n = 47). The participants studied a list of fifteen words followed by a filler task. After which, the participants recall as many words as they could in any order. Two different word lists were presented before and after the listening task. We observed that while participants did not differ in their verbal recall before the listening tasks across the three conditions, those who listened to the music with BB recalled fewer words compared to those who listened to the audiobook after the listening task. In addition, although a greater proportion of participants who listened to the music with BB soundtrack produced false recall (51.9%) compared to those who listened to the music-only (50.0%) and audiobook (42.6%), the relationship between soundtrack and false recall was not statistically significant. The current findings suggest that low frequency BB in the delta/theta ranges may attenuate verbal memory particularly when listeners are exposed to BB frequency.

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Potential of binaural beats intervention for improving memory and attention: insights from meta-analysis and systematic review

Cited by 13 publications

References 29 publications

Therapeutic dissociation: From non-ordinary states to psychological transformation

Therapeutic dissociation: From non-ordinary states to psychological transformation

Examining the effects of binaural beat music on sleep quality, heart rate variability, and depression in older people with poor sleep quality in a long‐term care institution: A randomized controlled trial

Low frequency binaural beats in instrumental music affects verbal memory but not false recall

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