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Effects of CES Frequencies Some claim the effectiveness of the Cranio-Electro Stimulation (CES) comes from the frequency. To date, there has never been a comparative study of the various frequencies. One CES manufacturer uses long-pulse trains at 15 kHz, whereas all other CES devices use 100 Hz and under. In the 1990s, Meg Patterson experimented on frequencies up to 500 Hz for the treatment of drug addictions, but the advantage of specific frequencies for specific...

Congratulations! You’ve decided to purchase a Mind Alive device! Now for the fun of choosing the one that will best serve your needs. It may seem overwhelming given there are six different devices. For a quick description on the differences, watch this video. But not to worry, selecting can be quite simple. First let’s break down the different stimulation technologies: Audio-Visual Entrainment (AVE) – flashing lights and pulsing tones to guide you into different brainwave states Cranio-Electro...

Stimulation of the vagus nerve is becoming an area that many people are interested in for their mental wellbeing. While searching on the web, we came across this study which concludes: “Stimulation of the tragus activates the cerebral afferents of the vagal pathway and combined with our review of the literature suggest that taVNS is a promising form of VNS (vagal nerve stimulation).www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29361441Why does stimulating the vagus nerve help improve mental health? The vagus nerve...

Year in Review 2020 Sharing our Greatest Hits! We’d like to share our most popular posts on our Facebook and Twitter pages in 2020. So please enjoy whether this is the first time seeing the post or a review! Most often, we post about the technologies that we use in our work – Audio-Visual Entrainment (AVE), Cranio-Electro Stimulation (CES), transcranial DC Stimulation (tDCS) and Microcurrent Electrotherapy (MET), but we also like to share interesting articles...

By Nancy Siever, Co-Founder of Mind Alive Inc. At Mind Alive, we often have people ask us what’s so special about our DAVID Delight Pro compared to other devices that might be available out there in the marketplace. Well, I can’t speak to the other devices, but I do know that over the past 40 years, Dave and our team here at Mind Alive have continually been developing, designing, and producing various families of devices...