I would like to see papers that throw lights on digital drugs.
Thank you
Dear Ali O Al-Hamzawi,
If digital drugs or binaural beats mean sounds that are thought to be capable of changing brain wave patterns and inducing an altered state of consciousness similar to that effected by taking drugs or achieving a deep state of meditation., then there are notions on their effect on pain: Experts Examine Future Options in Digital Drugs for Pain Released: 13-Jun-2013 3:00 AM EDT
Source Newsroom: International Neuromodulation Society
and on nightmares, depression, anxiety, addiction: Spoormaker VI, van den Bout J (2006). "Lucid dreaming treatment for nightmares: a pilot study". Psychotherapy and psychosomatics 75 (6): 389–94. doi:10.1159/000095446. PMID 17053341.
Saxby E, Peniston EG (1995). "Alpha-theta brainwave neurofeedback training: an effective treatment for male and female alcoholics with depressive symptoms". Journal of clinical psychology 51 (5): 685–93. doi:10.1002/1097-4679(199509)51:53.0.CO;2-K. PMID 8801245.
Padmanabhan R, Hildreth AJ, Laws D (2005). "A prospective, randomised, controlled study examining binaural beat audio and pre-operative anxiety in patients undergoing general anaesthesia for day case surgery". Anaesthesia 60 (9): 874–7. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04287.x. PMID 16115248.
Peniston EG, Kulkosky PJ (1989). "Alpha-theta brainwave training and beta-endorphin levels in alcoholics". Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res. 13 (2): 271–9. doi:10.1111/j.1530-0277.1989.tb00325.x. PMID 2524976.
Chraif, M. (2012). The effects of radio noise in multiple time reaction tasks for young students. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 33, 1057-1062.
While this is a relative new aspect of adolescent health to me, we certainly see that exposure to a specific (yet ambiguous, arguably) sound can have largely unexplored influences on the mind. Chraif (2012) demonstrated this on simple task performance, so speaking beyond these results is a reach, who is a scientist who doesn't reach? I would argue that we have evidence to suggest the mind is influenced in unknown ways by sound, therefore the potential exists these influences may lead to the experience of an "altered state." Obviously from this position we cannot know the health consequences of such an experience, but we have a starting point.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812002923#
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