Bolt have you seen this? Binaural beats and PD study.

[House2]

"In this study, we found an improvement of resting tremor when applying BBS in the gamma frequency band OFF medication. Moreover, the positive effects of CAS underline the general positive potential for improvement of motor function by acoustically supported therapeutic approaches"

frontiersin.org/journals/ne...

[park_bear]

Looking at the actual results in figure 2, although they alleged stat sig for UPDRS, the actual differences were tiny and not clinically significant. They did find some improvement in the off state tremor using the more sensitive Kinesia one measurement system, but in the on-state tremor actually got a bit worse.

[Bolt_Upright]

Thanks House2 . I need to study this.

One thing that raises a red flag is this under methodology: "we used 320 Hz for the left ear and 355 Hz for the right ear. The perceived frequency of BBS was thus at 35 Hz, i.e., in the gamma band (25). Previous studies indicate that 35 Hz corresponds to the highest frequency difference that is not consciously perceived by patients and therefore allows randomization in truly blinded stimulation settings"

I understand they want the double blind, but when rolling the dice on a long shot treatment I would rather select the frequencies based on what previous research has shown has the best chance of success.

I switched from Binaural Beats to Isochronic tones: 250 HZ pulsed at 40 HZ. drive.google.com/file/d/14X...

[MarkPrana in reply to Bolt_Upright]

Thanks for sharing Bolt. A very interesting line of research.

Sorry for the layman's question - do you need stereo headphones to listen to isochronic tones?

[Bolt_Upright in reply to MarkPrana]

No you don't need stereo headphones for Isochronic tones. They are mono. In fact, you can play them on a speaker, your phone, or just about anything.

[MarkPrana in reply to Bolt_Upright]

Thanks Bolt, I'd be shopping for a red light device and some of them come with a gamma frequency pulse function but others not.Having access to an audio source of gamma frequency adds another input to help access the potential benefits.

It's not the most 'pleasant on the ears' to listen to but the upside benefits could prove to be worthwhile in the long-term.

I was thinking about listening to it with birdsong in the background.

How long and how often do you use the audio for?

[Bolt_Upright in reply to MarkPrana]

That file runs for 50 minutes and I listen to the whole thing before bed every night. I used to listen to it once during the day also but I slacked off. With my bone conduction headphones (they don't cover my ears) I can listen to it while watching TV or doing other things. I guess that is the same as listening on a speaker with other things on also.

Personally, I see no problem having bird sounds or any other sounds going.

I have not seen any studies with people that play the audio as long as I do (50 minutes), but to my high school educated brain it seems really dumb to only listen 3 times a week for 10 minutes at a time (I think that was one of the studies). But, like I said, high school degree. I think the MIT mouse study did it for an hour (sound and light synchronized at 40 HZ).