Modulation of Heart and Brain Function by Surah Al-Rehman Recitation Among Distressed Diabetic Patients in Pakistan

Overview

Journal J Relig Health

Publisher Springer

Specialties General Medicine
Psychology
Social Sciences

Date 2021 Sep 23

PMID 34554380

Authors

Umair Majeed

Meha Fatima Aftab

Deedag Murad Baloch

Sana Ahmed

Imran M Yusuf

Muhammad Abul Hasan

Muhammad Sameer Qureshi

Affiliations

Soon will be listed here.

Abstract

Distress causes psychophysiological alterations that affect autonomic function. The current study explores psychophysiological modulation in diabetic distress in response to Surah Al-Rehman recitation. A single-group experimental study with before and after intervention assessments was conducted during April 2018 to February 2019 in which participants (n = 10) listened to Surah Al-Rehman recitation. Blood pressure, blood glucose, cortisol, ECG and EEG were recorded before and after recitation. Significant reduction in systolic blood pressure, increase in low frequency and absolute alpha power at Fp2 were observed. Heartbeat evoked potentials (HEP) were also significantly modulated at Fp1, Fp2 and F4. These findings suggest that Surah Al-Rehman modulated baroreflex activity thereby reducing sympathetic activity and improved heart brain coherence as reflected by HEP.

References

Al-Shargie F, Kiguchi M, Badruddin N, Dass S, Hani A, Tang T . Mental stress assessment using simultaneous measurement of EEG and fNIRS. Biomed Opt Express. 2016; 7(10):3882-3898. PMC: 5102531. DOI: 10.1364/BOE.7.003882. View

Alcantara J, Plaza-Florido A, Amaro-Gahete F, Acosta F, Migueles J, Molina-Garcia P . Impact of Using Different Levels of Threshold-Based Artefact Correction on the Quantification of Heart Rate Variability in Three Independent Human Cohorts. J Clin Med. 2020; 9(2). PMC: 7074236. DOI: 10.3390/jcm9020325. View

Anderson E, Sinkey C, Mark A . Mental stress increases sympathetic nerve activity during sustained baroreceptor stimulation in humans. Hypertension. 1991; 17(4 Suppl):III43-9. DOI: 10.1161/01.hyp.17.4_suppl.iii43. View

Arnsten A . Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and function. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2009; 10(6):410-22. PMC: 2907136. DOI: 10.1038/nrn2648. View

Ayada C, Toru U, Korkut Y . The relationship of stress and blood pressure effectors. Hippokratia. 2016; 19(2):99-108. PMC: 4938117. View

Babamohamadi H, Sotodehasl N, Koenig H, Zaben F, Jahani C, Ghorbani R . The Effect of Holy Qur'an Recitation on Depressive Symptoms in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial. J Relig Health. 2016; 56(1):345-354. DOI: 10.1007/s10943-016-0281-0. View

Bozovic D, Racic M, Ivkovic N . Salivary cortisol levels as a biological marker of stress reaction. Med Arch. 2014; 67(5):374-7. DOI: 10.5455/medarh.2013.67.374-377. View

Braboszcz C, Cahn B, Levy J, Fernandez M, Delorme A . Increased Gamma Brainwave Amplitude Compared to Control in Three Different Meditation Traditions. PLoS One. 2017; 12(1):e0170647. PMC: 5261734. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170647. View

Chan O, Inouye K, Riddell M, Vranic M, Matthews S . Diabetes and the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Minerva Endocrinol. 2003; 28(2):87-102. View

10.

de Looff P, Cornet L, Embregts P, Nijman H, Didden H . Associations of sympathetic and parasympathetic activity in job stress and burnout: A systematic review. PLoS One. 2018; 13(10):e0205741. PMC: 6193670. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205741. View

11.

Dunbar J, Reddy P, Davis-Lameloise N, Philpot B, Laatikainen T, Kilkkinen A . Depression: an important comorbidity with metabolic syndrome in a general population. Diabetes Care. 2008; 31(12):2368-73. PMC: 2584197. DOI: 10.2337/dc08-0175. View

12.

Ferguson J . SSRI Antidepressant Medications: Adverse Effects and Tolerability. Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry. 2004; 3(1):22-27. PMC: 181155. DOI: 10.4088/pcc.v03n0105. View

13.

Fisher J, Young C, Fadel P . Central sympathetic overactivity: maladies and mechanisms. Auton Neurosci. 2009; 148(1-2):5-15. PMC: 2679852. DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2009.02.003. View

14.

Frih B, Mkacher W, Bouzguenda A, Jaafar H, ALkandari S, Salah Z . Effects of listening to Holy Qur'an recitation and physical training on dialysis efficacy, functional capacity, and psychosocial outcomes in elderly patients undergoing haemodialysis. Libyan J Med. 2017; 12(1):1372032. PMC: 5650043. DOI: 10.1080/19932820.2017.1372032. View

15.

Gentsch A, Sel A, Marshall A, Schutz-Bosbach S . Affective interoceptive inference: Evidence from heart-beat evoked brain potentials. Hum Brain Mapp. 2018; 40(1):20-33. PMC: 6865546. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24352. View

16.

Ghiasi A, Keramat A . The Effect of Listening to Holy Quran Recitation on Anxiety: A Systematic Review. Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2018; 23(6):411-420. PMC: 6178573. DOI: 10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_173_17. View

17.

Goldstein D, Bentho O, Park M, Sharabi Y . Low-frequency power of heart rate variability is not a measure of cardiac sympathetic tone but may be a measure of modulation of cardiac autonomic outflows by baroreflexes. Exp Physiol. 2011; 96(12):1255-61. PMC: 3224799. DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2010.056259. View

18.

Hartmann R, Schmidt F, Sander C, Hegerl U . Heart Rate Variability as Indicator of Clinical State in Depression. Front Psychiatry. 2019; 9:735. PMC: 6344433. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00735. View

19.

Hata M, Hayashi N, Ishii R, Canuet L, Pascual-Marqui R, Aoki Y . Short-term meditation modulates EEG activity in subjects with post-traumatic residual disabilities. Clin Neurophysiol Pract. 2019; 4:30-36. PMC: 6402287. DOI: 10.1016/j.cnp.2019.01.003. View

20.

Hussain A, Mufti R, Shahid M . Determinants of patients preferring Complementary and Alternative medicine attending public hospitals in Lahore, Pakistan. J Pak Med Assoc. 2018; 68(6):914-918. View