Editing Mind machine (section)

== Application ==
Mind machines include flashing light devices, which are similar to the [[Brion Gysin]] [[dreamachine]] in that both produce a flickering visual field. Unlike flashing light devices, the dreamachine can be used by several people at once, but has few, if any, technical features.

=== Technical setting ===
[[File:Dreammachine.jpg|right|thumb|200px |A Brion Gysin [[dreamachine]]]]
Mind machines typically consist of a control unit, a pair of headphones and/or strobe light goggles. The unit controls the sessions and drives the LEDs in the goggles. Professionally, they are usually referred to as Auditory Visual Stimulation Devices (AVS devices).<ref name="Olmstead 2005">{{Cite journal |first=Ruth |last=Olmstead|date=2005-09-06|title=Use of Auditory and Visual Stimulation to Improve Cognitive Abilities in Learning-Disabled Children|journal=Journal of Neurotherapy|volume=9|issue=2|pages=49–61|doi=10.1300/J184v09n02_04|issn=1087-4208|doi-access=free}}</ref> Some mind machines available today can even connect to the Internet to download additional session material.

===Regulation===
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Mind machine devices are legally available throughout the United States from many sources.<ref name="Idosing" />

With some exceptions,<ref name=TENS_approval>{{cite web |url = https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm388765.htm |title=FDA allows marketing of first medical device to prevent migraine headaches |website = [[Food and Drug Administration]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314213907/https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm388765.htm |archive-date=2014-03-14}}</ref> these devices commonly do not have [[Food and Drug Administration|FDA]] approval for medical applications in the US. They have been found by a U.S. district court to be Class III medical devices, and consequentially require FDA pre-market approval for all medical uses. One company making [[radionics|medical claims]] for a possibly unsafe device has been shut down and seen their devices destroyed.<ref name=medical_claims>{{ cite journal |last1 = Farley Dixie|year = 1994 |title = Unapproved 'Brain Wave' Devices Condemned after Seizure Reports |journal = FDA Consumer |quote = The devices were various models of a product called the InnerQuest Brain Wave Synchronizer – headgear (an audio cassette and eyeglasses) that emitted sounds and flashing lights. Sold without prescription and promoted to relieve conditions such as stress, ... |volume = March }}</ref>