We’ve talked about brain music before - everything from brain music therapy to binaural brain beat synthesizers to hardcore brain-controlled synth action to bogus stories about dudes controlling synths with mind bullets.
It’s hard to believe, but it looks like there may be a commercial future for brain music medicine.
According to a Fox News report, Dr. Galina Mindlin, a psychiatrist at Columbia University in New York City has been using brain music therapy for three years to treat a variety of ills, including insomnia, anxiety, attention deficit disorder, depression, substance abuse and stress.
A complete treatment, which includes a brief medical evaluation, a recording of the brain waves and a personalized music file, costs $550.
According to Mindlin, the therapy has an 80-85 percent success rate. That’s where my BS detector goes off.
Drug treatment programs have abysmally low completion rates - one study reports that about 3.5% of those that start a drug treatment program complete it.
Call me skeptical on brain music therapy, even if there’s a market for it.
Let me know what you think!
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Drug rehab programs have low completion rates because they don’t address the reasons a person seeks to get high in the first place. Humans are naturally inclined to alter their perceptions, whether by coffee, alcohol, tobacco, cola, sugar, cannabis, darvocet, whatever. This isn’t always a bad thing, though I get that I may be flamed for suggesting that. Oh, well.
Maybe Mindlin’s therapy works at the quoted rates. If it does, great! If not, it was a good try. Remember, people have to WANT to change to make a difference in their own lives. If they don’t want to, well…
ThinReality - good point. Music is my mind-altering drug of choice!