Rhythms Synchronization Effects on Cognition during Listening to Quranic Recitation

Ismail, Samhani; Reza, Mohammed Faruque; Jusoh, Mohd Hanifah; Juahir, Hafizan

doi:10.11113/mjfas.v18n5.2671

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“…The EDF files were then opened by the Brain Electrical Stimulation Analysis (BESA Research 6.1 Software, Germany), and the waveform was built. The raw waveform lengths were selected and transferred into the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) -a spectrum from delta (0.5-3 Hz), theta (4-7 Hz), alpha (8-13 Hz), beta (14-30 Hz) and gamma (31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50). Each subject acquired the power spectrum of the brain oscillations from verse 1 to verse 7 from all three stimulations.…”

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Psychospiritual Healing from al-Quran: Internal Aesthetic Factor of Quranic Sound and Its Effects in Activating Greater Brain Regions

Ismail,

Reza,

Jusoh

et al. 2023

Mal. J. Fund. Appl. Sci.

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Spiritual healing and Quranic sound therapy has long accompanied human tradition since decades. Quranic sound is perceived as rhythmical cues that portrays psychospiritual effects although it was not recited with external melodic intonation (tarannum). Its internal rhythms were believed to activate and synchronize its listeners’ brain rhythms hence modulating their brainwaves to give the psychospiritual effect. However, there is lack of scientific investigation that elucidates source of Quranic linguistic rhythms which contributes to the greater neural activation in the Quran’s listeners. This study aimed to evaluate a Quranic linguistic feature that contributes to high rhythmicity, and high energy that activates its listeners neural ensembles. As a result, Electroencephalography ()’s electrode correlation will be presented as a predictive measure for neural connectivity compared with Arabic News listening. Fatihah Chapter recitation (tajweed without human speech. Spectrogram analysis was performed by using Praat: Doing Phonetics by Computer (PRAAT) software. The continuous brain electrical charges from twenty-eight normal subjects (14 male:14 female) with inclusion criteria of habitual daily Quran listeners were recorded by 128-channel EEG. These brain electrical data were pre-processed and analysed by Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) followed by multivariate analysis. Discriminant Analysis results which compare the mean values of the groups were followed by Multiple Linear Regression. From spectrogram analysis, we found that Fatihah Chapter sound is more rhythmic compared to Arabic news and brings higher energy. . Comparatively, larger-scale integration of neural ensembles from the fronto-temporo-parieto-occipital areas was observed while listening to Quranic Fatihah Chapter recitation than the fronto-temporo-parieto regions from Arabic News listening, indicated of higher synchronisation and integration in neuronal communication during Quranic listening. Dynamic brain network interaction is postulated in a desynchronised pattern, essential for normal brain functioning, reduced pathological tendencies, and emotion-health-cognition stability, offering psychospiritual effects.

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Section: Eeg Signal Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychospiritual Healing from al-Quran: Internal Aesthetic Factor of Quranic Sound and Its Effects in Activating Greater Brain Regions

Ismail,

Reza,

Jusoh

et al. 2023

Mal. J. Fund. Appl. Sci.

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Pregnancy Behavior Induce Changes in Glia Cells Rattus norvegicus Offspring Brain Through Prenatal Stimulation of Holy Quran

Kusuma,

Joewono,

Zanudin

2023

Biomolecular and Health Science Journal

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Introduction: The environment influences the development of nerves in the brain from early pregnancy until newborn. The purpose of this study was to determine the response of glial cells in the fetus to the sound stimulus of the murottal Al-Qur'an in newborn Rattus norvegicus. Besides that, the goal of this study was to show that murottal Al-Qur'an has seductive chants, makraj, and tajwid, which can emit brain waves and increase the number of glial cells by decreasing stress hormones and relaxing, thereby continuing to support fetal growth and development through the increasing number of glial cells. Methods: Female Wistar were divided into two equal groups. The control group without treatment and the surah Ar-Rahman group were given exposure treatment on days 10–20 of pregnancy. At the end of the experiment, R. norvegicus was sacrificed, and the cerebrum was taken, the head weight was measured, and the left and right hemispheres were analyzed for the number of left and right glial cells. Then, the brain was prepared using hematoxylin–eosin and observed in 400 magnifying microscopes in five fields. Results: The results showed that exposure to surah Ar-Rahman murottal could increase the number of glial cells with a significant difference (P < 0.05). Conclusions: This research establishes a relationship between stimulation since pregnancy with murottal Al-Qur'an and a number of glial cells (astrocyte, oligodendrocyte, and microglia). This finding can help identify stimulation of the murottal Al-Qur'an sound during pregnancy with glial cells.

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Rhythms Synchronization Effects on Cognition during Listening to Quranic Recitation

Cited by 2 publications

References 41 publications

Psychospiritual Healing from al-Quran: Internal Aesthetic Factor of Quranic Sound and Its Effects in Activating Greater Brain Regions

Psychospiritual Healing from al-Quran: Internal Aesthetic Factor of Quranic Sound and Its Effects in Activating Greater Brain Regions

Pregnancy Behavior Induce Changes in Glia Cells Rattus norvegicus Offspring Brain Through Prenatal Stimulation of Holy Quran

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