Effects of geomagnetic activity and atmospheric power variations on quantitative measures of brain activity: Replication of the Azerbaijani studies

Mulligan, Bryce P.; Hunter, Mathew D.; Persinger, Michael A.

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2009.12.008

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“…Inspired by the moderate strength correlations between global geomagnetic activity and convulsive seizures in human patients reported by Rajaram et al [3] and Michon et al [4] demonstrated that the magnitude of the correlation between spontaneous seizures in epileptic rats and geomagnetic activity during the same intervals was experimentally reproducible when the rats were exposed to a simulated "magnetic storm" pattern that was generated within the laboratory. Mulligan et al [5] partially replicated the correlations reported by Babayev and Allahverdiyeva [6] between global geomagnetic activity and specific frequency bands within the quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG) measures of human volunteers. This included alterations in theta activity (4 Hz to 8 Hz) over the right parietal region.…”

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Neural Tissues Filter Electromagnetic Fields: Investigating Regional Processing of Induced Current in Ex vivo Brain Specimens

Rouleau¹,

Persinger²

2017

Biol Med (Aligarh)

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As has been demonstrated experimentally, the living brain responds to pulsatile electromagnetic fields. Our aim was to investigate the capacities of ex vivo neural tissue to process and filter induced current generated by naturally occurring and laboratory-controlled electromagnetic fields. Microvolt potentials within the chemically fixed postmortem brains were collected throughout the field exposures. During strong geomagnetic storms there was a significant increase in power spectra within the 7.5 Hz to 14 Hz range within the right but not the left parahippocampal gyrus compared to days with relatively quiet geomagnetic activity. This finding indicated that ambient electromagnetic fluctuations from natural sources were processed differentially as a function of subsections of the postmortem tissue. Exposing a whole, fixed human brain to two physiologically patterned magnetic fields that have been associated with powerful subjective experiences reported by hundreds of human volunteers in the laboratory setting elicited increased power within the 7.5 Hz to 20 Hz range. The effects required 10 to 20 s to emerge and were primarily represented within tissue subsections of the right amygdala and orbitofrontal gyri. Other fields such as simple sine-wave (20 Hz) patterns of comparable intensity (2 to 10 μT) did not elicit the same configuration of changes. The results indicate that neural tissues filter electromagnetic fields non-randomly.

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Neural Tissues Filter Electromagnetic Fields: Investigating Regional Processing of Induced Current in Ex vivo Brain Specimens

Rouleau¹,

Persinger²

2017

Biol Med (Aligarh)

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“…Experimental simulations of the intensity and temporal shapes of geomagnetic activity in the laboratory produce comparable changes [4]. Recently Mulligan et al [5] in Canada replicated the results of Babayev and Allahveriyeva [6] in Azerbaijan that changes in cerebral power as measured by QEEG occurred during increases in geomagnetic activity above 25 to 30 nT. The most consistent, moderate strength correlations were evident for theta (4 to 7 Hz) and gamma (35 to 45 Hz) frequency bands over the right frontal lobe which displays a fundamental role in the reconstruction of autobiographical memory [7].…”

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“…The most consistent, moderate strength correlations were evident for theta (4 to 7 Hz) and gamma (35 to 45 Hz) frequency bands over the right frontal lobe which displays a fundamental role in the reconstruction of autobiographical memory [7]. Mulligan et al [5] calculated that the energy densities within the cerebral volume from the global increase in geomagnetic activity were the same order of magnitude as those associated with the numbers of cortical neurons necessary to produce the changes in QEEG measurements.…”

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Billions of Human Brains Immersed Within a Shared Geomagnetic Field: Quantitative Solutions and Implications for Future Adaptations

Persinger

2013

TOBIOJ

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Abstract:The implications for adaptation when billions of human cerebrums are considered weak conductors immersed within the same medium, the geomagnetic field, are examined. Quantitative solutions indicated that the intensity of the "transcerebral" field produced from all human brains within the geomagnetic field is the same order of magnitude as the values associated with cognitive processes and altered expressions of proteins within the individual brain. This convergence could meet one of the criteria for a holographic-like phenomenon. The transition from 6 to 8 billion brains would be associated with shared energies within individual cerebral space whose frequencies increase across the visible electromagnetic wavelength from infrared to ultraviolet. Magnetic diffusivity indicates all brains could be influenced within about 10 minutes. Implications for induced ubiquitous genetic changes, shared modifications in protein sequences associated with memory during dream sleep, and limitations upon the proliferation of the species are discussed.

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“…In addition, there is evidence of differential responsivity of the two hemispheres. The right hemisphere appears to be particularly sensitive to small changes in global geomagnetic activity [18].…”

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Gravitational and Experimental Electromagnetic Contributions to Cerebral Effects upon Deviations from Random Number Variations Generated by Electron Tunneling

Caswell

Collins

Vares

et al. 2013

ILCPA

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New theoretical and traditional quantitative solutions involving a pervasive unit quantum of ~10 -20 J within biological and large-scale physical systems predicted that the mass of the human subject, subtle changes in gravitational phenomena, and the energy available within the cerebral volume should affect proximal random number variations produced by electron tunneling. In a series of experiments application of a specific, physiologically-patterned weak magnetic field over the right temporal lobe significantly enhanced the effects of intention upon deviations from random variations created by electron tunneling devices at a distance of 1 m. These variations were strongly (r ~0.80) correlated with the coupling between the forces from the background free oscillations of the earth and the energy differences across the cell width between lunar perigee and apogee. The results support the approach that complex cognitive processes including "intention" can be described by physicochemical parameters and their magnitude of energies are within the range by which interactions or modulations from subtle gravitational forces applied across the cellular membrane and width might occur.

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Effects of geomagnetic activity and atmospheric power variations on quantitative measures of brain activity: Replication of the Azerbaijani studies

Cited by 36 publications

References 40 publications

Neural Tissues Filter Electromagnetic Fields: Investigating Regional Processing of Induced Current in Ex vivo Brain Specimens

Neural Tissues Filter Electromagnetic Fields: Investigating Regional Processing of Induced Current in Ex vivo Brain Specimens

Billions of Human Brains Immersed Within a Shared Geomagnetic Field: Quantitative Solutions and Implications for Future Adaptations

Gravitational and Experimental Electromagnetic Contributions to Cerebral Effects upon Deviations from Random Number Variations Generated by Electron Tunneling

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