Effect of the Gamma Entrainment Frequency in Pertinence to Mood, Memory and Cognition

This research provides evidence highlighting that through the use of a gamma 40 Hz entrainment frequency, mood, memory and cognition can be improved with respect to a 10 participant cohort. Participants constituted towards three binaural entrainment frequency groups; the 40 Hz, 25 Hz and 100 Hz respectively. Additionally, we asked participants to attend entrainment frequency sessions twice a week for a duration of four weeks. Sessions involved the assessment of a participants cognitive abilities, mood as well as memory; where the cognitive and memory assessments occurred before and after a 5 min binaural beat stimulation. The mood assessment scores were collected from sessions 1, 4 and 8 respectively. Within the gamma 40 Hz entrainment frequency group, we observed a weak statistical significance (alpha = 0.10, p = 0.076) mean improvement in cognitive scores; elevating from 75% average to 85% average upon conclusion of the experimentation. Additionally, we observed memory score improvements at a greater significance (alpha = 0.05, p = 0.0027); elevating from an average of 87% to 95%. Moreover, we observed a similar trend across the average of all of the frequency groups for the mood results. Finally, correlation analysis revealed a stronger correlation value (0.9838) within the 40 Hz group between sessions as well as mood score compared across the entire frequency group cohort.