Helane Wahbeh, an assistant professor at Oregon Health and Science University, has done several studies into binaural technology, and recently told US National Public Radio there was insufficient evidence showing that it could create altered states. Our brains are in constant dialogue with our surroundings, and not just when high," he said. "Our neural chemistry is soothed or uplifted by music the same way that it's affected by looking at puppies or sunsets. Musicians often use binaural beats to interesting effect - there's a whole minimalist genre called "drone music" - but that's for aesthetics, not for mind alteration. "Binaural beats are a real thing, in the sense that they exist. The use of the I-Doser Application and included or purchased doses should be used for entertainment purposes only," it says on the website.ĭaniel Levitin, a neuroscientist at McGill University in Montreal who studies the effect of music on the brain recently told the Washington Post that there was no mechanism for binaural beats to mimic the effects of drugs.
"I-Doser makes no medical, psychological, physical, or otherwise, claims to the effectiveness of the I-Doser Application or it's included or purchased doses. Indeed, away from the enticing product blurbs, even the I-Doser website backs away from claims that its products might have any tangible effect. Historically the droning binaural beats based on alpha and delta waves have been used to support some meditation and relaxation activities - but the scientific consensus seems to be that they simply impact your mood in the same way relaxing music might. "The earlier you find yourself in that culture the more problems you are likely to have in the future," Dillon said. The iDose website also gives subscribers the chance to become dose "dealers" to on-sell their own downloads to their circle of friends. As one user puts it: like I just inhaled 3 tanks of nitrous and passed out."
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Loaded full of drug lingo, and images of pills, the iDose downloads contain warnings like this: "Not for the new doser, this dose should be considered advanced. That is a very sad part of this that they are targeting the group most vulnerable - the young who see this as being a cool thing to do," said Paul Dillon, founder of Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia. "We are seeing drug culture seep more and more into the youth market, where people can make a quick buck. "Safe, effective, and legal alternative to recreational and prescription drugs," is how one i-Doser website describes its wares, but drug abuse experts are not concerned so much with the content of the downloads as the drug culture they promote to young and susceptible minds. National and NSW education officials say they have not yet seen any reports of school children downloading "digital drugs" in Australia, but drug abuse experts say it is only a matter of time before the craze catches on here. The difference between the two - 10Hz - entrains the brain to that frequency, bang in the middle of the Alpha wave range, supposedly inducing relaxation.While there is little scientific evidence to back up some of the outlandish claims on iDose websites - some schools in the US have written letters to parents and banned iPods and phones to block students from accessing them. One ear gets a 315Hz sine wave, for example, and the other gets a 325Hz wave. However, average human hearing is limited to a range between 20 and 20,000Hz, so binaural beats are used to gain the same effect. For example, we know that Alpha waves - between 7 and 13 Hz - are associated with relaxation and drowsiness. This is a phenomenon discovered in 1839 and investigated further in the 1970s, which claims that playing audio at certain frequencies can move the activity of your brain waves towards those frequencies.
The sounds they're listening to are infused with "binaural beats".
So here's the reality of the situation: your children are not getting high from listening to audio. After an initial brief "lol", I've been trying hard to ignore it, but it seems to be gaining more and more attention from supposedly serious newspapers. For the past couple of weeks, a story has been working its way through various media organisations about kids in a high school in Oklahoma listening to MP3 files and getting high.
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