Digital drugs (binaural beats): how can it affect the brain/their impact on the brain

Abstract

To understand the principal functioning of binaural beats signals and the way it can affect the brain, eight drugs were used. This study was carried out on three groups: the first one contains four binaural beats signals, each one refers to a specific tone: alpha, beta, theta, and delta waves. The second group holds three records, representing three separate meditation binaural beats; however, the third one contains only one record that stands for the Marijuana e-drugs. Two types of analyses were performed on these groups, the temporal and the frequency analyses. In the first one, Hilbert transform was used to detect the envelope of the signal; we then determined the cross correlation function to understand the relationship between the two signals of the left and the right ears. However, in the frequency analysis, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) was applied to extract binaural and carrier frequencies. The obtained results are very satisfactory and show that there is a delay between the two signals of the left and the right ears. Nevertheless, the frequency analysis shows that in the second group, Solfeggio frequencies lambda, theta and delta waves are used to obtain the meditation state, were gamma, lambda, alpha, and delta waves are applied to get the Marijuana effect in the third group.

Keywords:

• Binaural beats
• digital drugs
• envelope detection
• carrier frequency
• brainwaves

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the Directorate-General of Scientific Research and Technological Development (Direction Générale de la Recherche Scientifique et du Développement Technologique, DGRSDT, URL: www.dgrsdt.dz, Algeria) for the financial assistance through a monthly allowance provided to the doctoral students to do their research.

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