research suggests may elicit changes in states of consciousness © 2005 The Monroe Institute 365 Roberts Mountain Road, Faber, VA 22938 434/361-1252 HEMI-SYNC® JOURNAL and mood. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 There are no known rigorous scientific cutoff on process skills mean decreased efficiency, safety, and/or projects in the field of traumatic brain injury, but anecdotal evi- independence. The computer-generated AMPS Graphic Report dence exists. 7, 8 is interpreted as follows: Using sound for healing dates from man’s earliest records. Improvements of at least 0.5 logits [a measurement specific Available today are specially created music tapes and CDs to the AMPS instrument] between Test 1 and Test 2 on either (Hemi-Sync) that have binaural beats embedded to produce an AMPS motor or process skill scale indicate that the client’s ADL auditory brain-stem response. The binaural beats are generated motor or ADL process ability has changed to a degree that has when two tones of slightly different frequencies are presented clinical and statistical meaning (i.e., improved occupational per- simultaneously, one in each ear, preferably through headphones. formance). It is hypothesized that the brain integrates the two signals to pro- Improvements of 0.3 or 0.4 logits between Test 1 and Test 2 duce a third sound referred to as a binaural beat. may not be statistically significant, but may still be clinically meaningful in terms of improved occupational performance.
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Anecdotal Evidence Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36) Case A: In the autumn of 2000, a Hemi-Sync MIND This is a health-related quality-of-life measure. SF-3610 is a FOOD® Concentration CD was given to a young man, age twen- generic health-status measure providing information for nine ty, in the rehabilitation ward of the hospital. He listened to it different aspects of health status: Physical Functioning, Role daily for a period. He suffered from TBI after a traffic accident. Physical, Bodily Pain, General Health, Vitality, Social After being released from the hospital several months later, he Functioning, Role Emotional, Mental Health, and Reported completed his studies (basic computer science) according to Health Transition. Higher scores indicate a better health state. schedule, within seven months after hospitalization he got Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) through the exam, and he has now entered new studies. He is the PANAS11 is a self-evaluation scale and provides reliable and only person the investigator knows who has completed school largely independent measures of Positive Affect (PA) and and continued to study after a serious TBI. The going was rough, Negative Affect (NA), regardless of the subject population stud- but he made it and is still making it. ied or the time frame and response format used. PA—but not Case B: A male pensioner, age seventy-six, suffered a fall and NA—is related to social activity, exercise, and satisfaction and to
eventually moved home to his wife after being hospitalized. He the frequency of pleasant events and is related to diurnal varia- was unable to take any initiative and needed instructions to carry tion. NA—but not PA—is related to self-reported stress, (poor) out most tasks of daily living. Even making coffee was a chal- coping, and frequency of unpleasant events. Low PA and high lenge for many months. He was released from the hospital in the NA are major distinguishing features of depression and anxiety, summer, and during the winter his wife administered daily lis- respectively. NA is largely unrelated to actual health status. tening to METAMUSIC® Baroque Garden for a period of three Health complaints are as strongly related to intra-individual fluc- months. During and after this listening period he started to read tuation in PA as in NA. history books again (he remembered nothing, but he still enjoyed reading). He started solving simple crossword puzzles again, he Recruiting was able to be on his own for a few hours, and he could go shop- The subjects had to be over the age of eighteen and diag- ping for a few items on his own. This recovery might have hap- nosed with TBI. The injury had to be older than two years, and pened without Hemi-Sync;we do not know. the subjects had all been admitted to the Department for reha- bilitation at the hospital. Inclusion criteria were: diagnosed cog- Materials and Methods nitive problems following TBI, and cognitive functioning agree-