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Binaural beat music

Binaural beat music has been studied in 1 paper since 2024: 1 trial in people. The newest paper, Feb 6, 2024: “Examining the effects of binaural beat music on sleep quality, heart rate variability, and depression in older people with poor sleep quality in a long-term care institution: A randomized controlled trial”.

Intervention

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“Furthermore, the BBM group showed a significant improvement in sleep quality and a significant reduction in sympathetic nervous activity compared with the control group.”
Examining the effects of binaural beat music on sleep quality, heart rate variability, and depression in older people with poor sleep quality in a long-term care institution: A randomized controlled trialGeriatrics & gerontology international2024doi:10.1111/ggi.14827

None of its findings points the other way.

C, W, M, H: cells, worms or flies, mice, humans. Dark: independent labs found the same change there. Light: one lab or one study. Outline: nothing yet.

  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Funder: National Science and Technology Council
  • Human trial1

Studies in people

1 study gave binaural beat music to people and measured what changed.

  • up: Improves sleep quality

    down: Decreases sympathetic nervous activity

    down: Decreases depression severity

    Randomized trial64 people14 days

    Older adults; older people with poor sleep quality in a long-term care institution

    Geriatrics & gerontology international, Feb 6, 2024

What did studies of Binaural beat music find?

3

Studies of Binaural beat music measured 3 outcomes; the most studied are depression severity (1 study), sympathetic nervous activity (1) and sleep quality (1).

Depression severity

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1 study

  1. Binaural beat music decreases depression severity in humans.

    “and a decrease in low-frequency normalized units and depression severity in the BBM group after the intervention.”

    Human trialolder people with poor sleep quality in a long-term care institutionTaiwanese Hokkien oldies embedded with BBM20 min once in the morning and afternoon three times a week14 days

    Examining the effects of binaural beat music on sleep quality, heart rate variability, and depression in older people with poor sleep quality in a long-term care institution: A randomized controlled trial

    Geriatrics & gerontology international

Sympathetic nervous activity

downin humans1

1 study

  1. Binaural beat music decreases sympathetic nervous activity in humans.

    “a significant reduction in sympathetic nervous activity compared with the control group.”

    Human trialolder people with poor sleep quality in a long-term care institutionTaiwanese Hokkien oldies embedded with BBM20 min once in the morning and afternoon three times a week14 days

    Examining the effects of binaural beat music on sleep quality, heart rate variability, and depression in older people with poor sleep quality in a long-term care institution: A randomized controlled trial

    Geriatrics & gerontology international

Sleep quality

upin humans1

1 study

  1. Binaural beat music improves sleep quality in humans.

    “Furthermore, the BBM group showed a significant improvement in sleep quality and a significant reduction in sympathetic nervous activity compared with the control group.”

    Human trialolder people with poor sleep quality in a long-term care institutionTaiwanese Hokkien oldies embedded with BBM20 min once in the morning and afternoon three times a week14 days

    Examining the effects of binaural beat music on sleep quality, heart rate variability, and depression in older people with poor sleep quality in a long-term care institution: A randomized controlled trial

    Geriatrics & gerontology international

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