title: The observation of theta wave modulation on brain training by 5 Hz-binaural beat stimulation in seven days.
abstract: Traditional buddhist meditation method maybe easy for someone with high experience. However, for the beginner, it is very difficult to keep mental concentration with the tradition way for more than 5 minutes. This research aims to observe effect of the new method for meditation in various analysis methods. A piano music mixed with a 5 Hz (theta band enhancement) binaural beat frequency was used to modulate the brain signals continuously for 7 days. Male of the average age of 33.5±3.84 and female of the average age of 28.6±2.49 were participated. All participants were acquired EEGs twice, before the experiment and seven days after the experiment. We also proposed the observations on the changes of absolute powers, relative powers and brain connectivity (coherence) of the participants. After seven days of training, the absolute power, relative power, and coherence were clearly closer to the normative database. We can initially say that the recommended meditation method can efficiently mimic the effect of having the traditional buddhist meditation on enhancing the delta and theta powers in the brain.
authors.forename: Traisak
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamsa-Ard
authors.forename: Yodchanan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wongsawat
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D058256:Brain Waves / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019122:Meditation; D009146:Music