Anti-Social Behavior https://greenmedinfo.com/taxonomy/term/6457/all en 6 Ways Drumming Heals Body, Mind and Soul https://greenmedinfo.com/blog/6-ways-drumming-heals-body-mind-and-soul <div class="copyright">This article is copyrighted by GreenMedInfo LLC, 2019<br/><strong><a href="/greenmedinfocom-re-post-guidelines">Visit our Re-post guidelines</a></strong></div><p class="rtecenter"><img alt="6 Ways Drumming Heals Body, Mind and Soul" src="//cdn.greenmedinfo.com/sites/default/files/ckeditor/Sayer Ji/images/drum_healing.jpg" style="width: 640px; height: 427px;" /></p> <p><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;"><em><strong>From slowing the decline in fatal brain disease, to generating a sense of oneness with one another and the universe, drumming's physical and spiritual health benefits may be as old as time itself.</strong></em></span></span></p> <p><strong>Drumming is as fundamental a form of human expression as speaking</strong>, and likely emerged long before humans even developed the capability of using the lips, tongue and vocal organs as instruments of communication.</p><p><a href="https://greenmedinfo.com/blog/6-ways-drumming-heals-body-mind-and-soul" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://greenmedinfo.com/blog/6-ways-drumming-heals-body-mind-and-soul#comments Anti-Social Behavior Anxiety Disorders Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity Cortisol: High Huntington Disease Neurodegenerative Diseases Social Behavior Drumming Music Sat, 02 Feb 2019 13:09:17 +0000 Sayer Ji 116472 at https://greenmedinfo.com Drumming in groups facilitates social synchronization in preschool children. https://greenmedinfo.com/article/drumming-groups-facilitates-social-synchronization-preschool-children PMID:  J Exp Child Psychol. 2009 Mar;102(3):299-314. Epub 2008 Sep 12. PMID: 18789454 Abstract Title:  Joint drumming: social context facilitates synchronization in preschool children. Abstract:  The human capacity to synchronize body movements to an external acoustic beat enables uniquely human behaviors such as music making and dancing. By hypothesis, these first evolved in human cultures as fundamentally social activities. We therefore hypothesized that children would spontaneously synchronize their body movements to an external beat at earlier ages and with higher accuracy if the stimulus was presented in a social context. A total of 36 children in three age groups (2.5, 3.5, and 4.5 years) were invited to drum along with either a human partner, a drumming machine, or a drum sound coming from a speaker. When drumming with a social partner, children as young as 2.5 years adjusted their drumming tempo to a beat outside the range of their spontaneous motor tempo. Moreover, children of all ages synchronized their drumming with higher accuracy in the social condition. We argue that drumming together with a social partner creates a shared representation of the joint action task and/or elicits a specific human motivation to synchronize movements during joint rhythmic activity. https://greenmedinfo.com/article/drumming-groups-facilitates-social-synchronization-preschool-children#comments Anti-Social Behavior Drumming Human Study Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:36:08 +0000 greenmedinfo 46553 at https://greenmedinfo.com Findings provide initial evidence that omega-3 supplementation can produce sustained reductions in externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. https://greenmedinfo.com/article/findings-provide-initial-evidence-omega-3-supplementation-can-produce-sustaine PMID:  J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2015 May ;56(5):509-20. Epub 2014 Aug 22. PMID: 25146492 Abstract Title:  Reduction in behavior problems with omega-3 supplementation in children aged 8-16 years: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, stratified, parallel-group trial. Abstract:  BACKGROUND: While limited evidence suggests that omega-3 supplementation may reduce antisocial behavior in children, studies have not reported on posttreatment follow-up and most treatment periods have been of short duration. This study tests the hypothesis that omega-3 supplementation over 6 months will reduce behavior problems in children both at the end of treatment and at 6 months post treatment.METHODS: In this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, stratified, parallel-group trial, a community sample of 8-16 year old children were randomized into a treatment group (N = 100) and a placebo-control group (N = 100). The supplementation consisted of a fruit drink containing 1 g/day of omega-3 or a placebo consisting of the same fruit drink without omega-3. Participants, caregivers, and research assistants were blinded to group assignment. The primary outcome measures of externalizing and internalizing behavior problems were reported by both caregivers and their children in a laboratory setting at 0 months (baseline), 6 months (end of treatment) and 12 months (6 months post treatment), together with the secondary outcome measures of parental antisocial behavior. Data were analyzed on an intention-to-treat basis including all participants.TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02016079?term=mauritius&amp;rank=2 RESULTS: Significant group × time interactions were observed with the treatment group showing long-term improvements in child behavior problems. The average posttreatment effect size was d = -.59. Effects were documented for parent reports, but with the exception of proactive and reactive aggression, child-report data were nonsignificant. Parents whose children took omega-3 showed significant posttreatment reductions in their own antisocial and aggressive behavior. This improvement in caregiver behavior partly mediated the improvements observed in child behavior.CONCLUSIONS: Findings provide initial evidence that omega-3 supplementation can produce sustained reductions in externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. Results are the first to report improvements in caregiver behavior, and to establish this improvement as a part-mechanism for the efficacy of omega-3. https://greenmedinfo.com/article/findings-provide-initial-evidence-omega-3-supplementation-can-produce-sustaine#comments Anti-Social Behavior Child Behavior Disorders Omega-3 Fatty Acids Behavioral Treatment Human Study Sun, 10 May 2015 15:32:12 +0000 greenmedinfo 117304 at https://greenmedinfo.com Group drumming has a positive effect on social-emotional behavior in low-income children. https://greenmedinfo.com/article/group-drumming-has-positive-effect-social-emotional-behavior-low-income-childr PMID:  Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2011 ;2011:250708. Epub 2011 Feb 13. PMID: 21660091 Abstract Title:  The impact of group drumming on social-emotional behavior in low-income children. Abstract:  Low-income youth experience social-emotional problems linked to chronic stress that are exacerbated by lack of access to care. Drumming is a non-verbal, universal activity that builds upon a collectivistic aspect of diverse cultures and does not bear the stigma of therapy. A pretest-post-test non-equivalent control group design was used to assess the effects of 12 weeks of school counselor-led drumming on social-emotional behavior in two fifth-grade intervention classrooms versus two standard education control classrooms. The weekly intervention integrated rhythmic and group counseling activities to build skills, such as emotion management, focus and listening. The Teacher&#039;s Report Form was used to assess each of 101 participants (n = 54 experimental, n = 47 control, 90% Latino, 53.5% female, mean age 10.5 years, range 10-12 years). There was 100% retention. ANOVA testing showed that intervention classrooms improved significantly compared to the control group in broad-band scales (total problems (P https://greenmedinfo.com/article/group-drumming-has-positive-effect-social-emotional-behavior-low-income-childr#comments Anti-Social Behavior Drumming Human Study Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:23:02 +0000 greenmedinfo 67297 at https://greenmedinfo.com Serum cholesterol is lower in antisocial personality. https://greenmedinfo.com/article/serum-cholesterol-lower-antisocial-personality PMID:  Neuropsychobiology. 1979 ;5(1):27-30. PMID: 431794 Abstract Title:  Serum cholesterol in antisocial personality. Abstract:  Serum cholesterol fasting concentrations were measured in 274 subjects with personality disorders, who had committed offences. Of these subjects, 139 were found to possess the antisocial personality (sociopathy or psychopathy). With standardized ages, the group of subjects with antisocial personality had a clearly lower mean level of serum cholesterol than the group with other personality disorders which was used as a control group. The use of a mean male population with standardized ages as a control group further emphasized the low values of the serum cholesterol of the antisocial personality group. https://greenmedinfo.com/article/serum-cholesterol-lower-antisocial-personality#comments Anti-Social Behavior Cholesterol Human Study Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:13:34 +0000 greenmedinfo 69244 at https://greenmedinfo.com Synchronized drumming enhances activity in the caudate and facilitates prosocial commitment--if the rhythm comes easily. https://greenmedinfo.com/article/synchronized-drumming-enhances-activity-caudate-and-facilitates-prosocial-comm n/a PMID:  PLoS One. 2011 ;6(11):e27272. Epub 2011 Nov 16. PMID: 22110623 Abstract Title:  Synchronized drumming enhances activity in the caudate and facilitates prosocial commitment--if the rhythm comes easily. Abstract:  Why does chanting, drumming or dancing together make people feel united? Here we investigate the neural mechanisms underlying interpersonal synchrony and its subsequent effects on prosocial behavior among synchronized individuals. We hypothesized that areas of the brain associated with the processing of reward would be active when individuals experience synchrony during drumming, and that these reward signals would increase prosocial behavior toward this synchronous drum partner. 18 female non-musicians were scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging while they drummed a rhythm, in alternating blocks, with two different experimenters: one drumming in-synchrony and the other out-of-synchrony relative to the participant. In the last scanning part, which served as the experimental manipulation for the following prosocial behavioral test, one of the experimenters drummed with one half of the participants in-synchrony and with the other out-of-synchrony. After scanning, this experimenter&quot;accidentally&quot;dropped eight pencils, and the number of pencils collected by the participants was used as a measure of prosocial commitment. Results revealed that participants who mastered the novel rhythm easily before scanning showed increased activity in the caudate during synchronous drumming. The same area also responded to monetary reward in a localizer task with the same participants. The activity in the caudate during experiencing synchronous drumming also predicted the number of pencils the participants later collected to help the synchronous experimenter of the manipulation run. In addition, participants collected more pencils to help the experimenter when she had drummed in-synchrony than out-of-synchrony during the manipulation run. By showing an overlap in activated areas during synchronized drumming and monetary reward, our findings suggest that interpersonal synchrony is related to the brain&#039;s reward system. https://greenmedinfo.com/article/synchronized-drumming-enhances-activity-caudate-and-facilitates-prosocial-comm#comments Anti-Social Behavior Drumming Human Study Sat, 13 May 2017 21:34:09 +0000 greenmedinfo 147746 at https://greenmedinfo.com Tryptophan-rich gourd seeds are a potential anxiolytic to those suffering from social phobia. https://greenmedinfo.com/article/tryptophan-rich-gourd-seeds-are-potential-anxiolytic-those-suffering-social-ph PMID:  Can J Physiol Pharmacol. 2007 Sep;85(9):928-32. PMID: 18066139 Abstract Title:  Protein-source tryptophan as an efficacious treatment for social anxiety disorder: a pilot study. Abstract:  Until recently, intact protein that is rich in tryptophan was not seen as an alternative to pharmaceutical-grade tryptophan because protein also contains large neutral amino acids (LNAAs) that compete for transport sites across the blood-brain barrier. Recent evidence indicates that when deoiled gourd seed (a rich source of tryptophan with approximately 22 mg/g protein) is combined with glucose (a carbohydrate that reduces serum levels of competing LNAAs) a clinical effect similar to that of pharmaceutical-grade tryptophan is achieved. Objective and subjective measures of anxiety in those suffering from social phobia (also known as social anxiety disorder) were employed to measure changes in anxiety in response to a stimulus as part of a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study with a wash-out period of 1 week between study sessions. Subjects were randomly assigned to start with either (i) protein-source tryptophan (deoiled gourd seed) in combination with carbohydrate or (ii) carbohydrate alone. One week after the initial session, subjects returned for a follow-up session and received the opposite treatment of that received at the first session. All 7 subjects who began the study completed the 2-week protocol. Protein-source tryptophan with carbohydrate, but not carbohydrate alone, resulted in significant improvement on an objective measure of anxiety. Protein-source tryptophan combined with a high glycemic carbohydrate is a potential anxiolytic to those suffering from social phobia. https://greenmedinfo.com/article/tryptophan-rich-gourd-seeds-are-potential-anxiolytic-those-suffering-social-ph#comments Anti-Social Behavior Anxiety Disorders Gourd Phobia: Social Pumpkin Seed Oil/Meal Tryptophan Anxiolytic Human Study Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:13:27 +0000 greenmedinfo 42475 at https://greenmedinfo.com