Enhanced power within a specific band of theta activity in one person while another receives circumcerebral pulsed magnetic fields: a mechanism for cognitive influence at a distance?

Perceptual and motor skills · 2003 · Mixed · Very low evidence

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In four sibling pairs tested across two sessions, EEG recordings from the response person (in another room) showed a significant increase in power in the 5.0–6.0 Hz band over the frontal and occipital lobes when the stimulus person received one of six specifi…

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PublicationPerceptual and motor skills · 2003

Study typeother

Reported directionMixed

Evidence ratingVery low

Abstract

Four pairs of adult siblings served once as either the stimulus or the response person in two sessions separated by one week. While the brain of the stimulus person, who was seated in a closed chamber, was exposed successively to six different complex magnetic fields for 5 min. each quantitative monopolar electroencephalographic measurements over the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes were collected by computer for the response person who was seated in another room. The six configurations of fields served as different stimulus patterns and had been designed to affect consciousness. As predicted theoretically, a significant increase in electroencephalographic power within the 5.0-Hz to 6.0-Hz band over the frontal and occipital lobes was noted for the response persons when the stimulus persons received one of the six specific patterns of weak (1 microTesla range) magnetic fields. This magnetic stimulus was presented for 100 msec. with changes in rate of 20 msec. to each of the eight solenoids that were equally spaced in the horizontal plane around the head of the stimulus person. Derivatives within this narrow frequency band had been hypothesized to be a source of the "binding factor" for the cohesive cerebrogenic electromagnetic fields producing consciousness. The results suggest that an appropriate altered state of one brain can effect specific predictable frequencies of the electroncephalographic activity of another distant brain which is genetically related.

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Study typeother

Effect directionmixed

PopulationAdult sibling pairs (stimulus person and response person)

Sample size8

Exposuresix different complex magnetic fields for 5 min each; one specific pattern described as 100 msec stimulus with 20 msec rate changes

Evidence strengthVery lowConfidence: 66% · Peer reviewed: yes

Main findings

Outcomes measured

Quantitative monopolar EEG power (5.0–6.0 Hz band) over frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes in the response person

Limitations

Very small sample (four sibling pairs; n=8 total).
Exposure parameters are incompletely specified for all six field configurations (only one pattern described in detail).
Outcome is limited to EEG power changes in a narrow band; no behavioral/cognitive outcomes reported in the abstract.
Study design details (randomization, blinding, control/sham conditions, distance, shielding) are not described in the abstract.

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Identifiers and source

DOI: 10.2466/pms.2003.97.3.877
PubMed: 14738355

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