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
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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-
This is a qualitative study. Because of the small number of able with the use of the chosen instruments. The exclusion crite- participants the results will not be used statistically. Only pre- ria were: deteriorating cognitive conditions, diagnosed epilepsy post measures are compared for each individual respectively. or other seizure disorders, psychiatric conditions, substance abuse (drugs and alcohol), or lack of the ability to speak. Instruments The following instruments were used: Design Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) The study used a within-subjects, repeated-measures design This is a performance evaluation of functioning in activities to assess the effects of binaural beats during the test period. of daily living (ADL). AMPS9 is used to determine how the Assessments were carried out before and after listening to Hemi- client’s ADL motor and ADL process (organizational/adaptive) Sync products for a minimum of five times a week over a period capabilities affect the ability to perform functional daily living of three months. The assessments were administered in the par- tasks safely, efficiently, and independently. The AMPS Graphic ticipants’ homes. Participants were given five CDs each, four for Report provides an ADL motor and ADL process ability mea- improved attention and concentration (METAMUSIC sure, which monitors ability changes in the client. The cutoff Remembrance, Einstein’s Dream, Baroque Garden, and also