E-Book of Articles - World Federation of Music Therapy

Aims Section
Fachner, Jörg: The Musical Time-Space, Cannabis And The Brain ...
It seemed to me as if most of the laboratory studies lacked of sensitivity in
experimental setting. Cannabis induces a field-related perceptual style as
Dinnerstein concluded (Dinnerstein, 1968). To reduce the laboratory bias in
EEG results, the field-dependence of drug action in personal set and
experimental setting has to be kept in mind by conducting a research
paradigm (Weil, 1998) on the topographic changes induced by Cannabis in
rest and during listening to music.
Method Section
Experimental Schedule
Pre-THC-EEG (music and rest - eyes closed)
Listening to 3 Rock music pieces (defined order)
1 minute silence/rest between the songs
30 minutes intermission
Smoking 0.3 gr. Cannabis (20-25mg THC) in tobacco joint
After 10 Minutes EEG start
Post-THC-EEG (music and rest with THC)
Listening to the same music / same measuring situation
and setting
4 Subjects (3male/1 female)
ISBET 2000 joergf@uni-wh.de
To explore, how laboratory bias can be reduced, a non-blind pilot study was
conducted with a mobile bedside EEG-Brainmapping system in the
consumers habituated setting of a living room. Four subjects (3 male/1
female) smoked a tobacco joint mixed with Nepalese hash, containing the
psychoactive ingredient Delta-9-Tetra-Hydro-Cannabinol - in the following
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