A Study of Brain Wave Entrainment in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): is a complex, pervasive, and multifactorial neurodevelopmental condition. ASD severely impairs the development of a person’s ability to interact with other people. It attacks without discrimination, afflicting all sectors of society. ASD has a global incidence, that is approximately 1 in 59 children. Boys are four times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls. Most children were still diagnosed after the age of four, although autism can be reliably diagnosed as early as the age of two. Children with autism present unique challenges related to communication, behavior and social skills. Brainwave Entrainment (BWE), is a procedure that modulates neural activities by synchronizing brainwave frequency with that of a stimulus (i.e. a mechanism used by the brain to process sensory stimuli of several modalities; PHOTIC, AUDIO, OLFACTORY, TACTILE Audio-visual entrainment (AVE), a subset of brainwave entrainment, uses flashes of lights and pulses of tones to guide the brain into various states of brainwave activity