NeuroNoodle Network Podcast: Neurofeedback & Wellness Podcast

Pete Jansons
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Featuring CoHosts: QEEG Legend Jay Gunkelman the man who has read over 500,000 Brain Scans, Dr. Mari Swingle the Author of iMinds and Pete Jansons NeuroNoodle uses technology to improve the quality of your life. We discuss symptoms such as ADHD, Anxiety, and Depression and the different ways they can be addressed via Neurofeedback, Brain Maps, QEEG, and Talk Therapy Want to come on the show? Have a topic? Pete@neuronoodle.com Sign up to our Newsletter https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/moOsZyB/NeuroNoodle

  1. 4d ago

    Can You Fry a Brain? Who Polices Neurofeedback | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

    If neurofeedback can change the brain, who makes sure the person doing it knows what they're doing? Jay Gunkelman has read more than half a million brain scans and spent 54 years in the field. He and Dr. Mari Swingle join host Pete Jansons to take on the question the field keeps circling: why hasn't neurofeedback gone to the next level? Mari warns about the practitioner who buys equipment, takes a weekend workshop and hangs a shingle. Pete asks the obvious question: can you actually fry a brain? From there it's insurance ("the business of insurance is to say no," says Jay), what BCIA certification can and can't do about a bad actor, why Pete needs a license to cut hair but not to do neurofeedback, and why a neurologist isn't automatically an EEG expert. Jay also describes a report he says came back on a recording with no EEG in it at all, just amplifier noise. Plus what parents should ask before choosing a provider, and a bonus from Joshua Moore on QEEG phenotypes. 🎙️ Panel: Jay Gunkelman (500K+ brain scans), Dr. Mari Swingle (author, iMinds), host Pete Jansons. Joshua Moore (MA, LMHC, BCN) was out sick this week. 🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🧠 0:00 — Cold open: can you fry a brain?👋 0:47 — Welcome + Joshua's out sick📐 2:29 — The 2010–11 efficacy standards Jay helped build🧴 4:54 — Wellness devices that steer away from research❓ 5:54 — Why hasn't neurofeedback gone to the next level?🦴 7:08 — Cannibalism vs. scaffolding in the field🧾 8:14 — Insurance codes, then and now🌍 8:57 — Is the field really held back? The international picture🚫 10:11 — "The business of insurance is to say no"🍁 11:44 — Canada: insurance pays on practitioner credentials💵 13:16 — The QEEG reports insurance does pay for🖨️ 14:53 — Press-the-button reports vs. real interpretation🚗 16:36 — ICBC, BCIA and two-tier protection📏 18:47 — Efficacy standards vs. practice standards🏈 20:34 — Cross-disciplinary: coaches to neurologists🧭 22:59 — Scope of practice within the classifications🏷️ 23:50 — What does BCIA do about a bad actor?🛡️ 24:28 — Complementary competence and something to lose🔥 25:14 — Can you fry a brain? + Jay's 54 years✂️ 27:13 — A license to cut hair, but not neurofeedback?📣 28:53 — Who do you complain to?🦴 30:29 — Chiropractor vs. MD: knowing your scope⚖️ 33:10 — Nevada: turf protection vs. public protection📉 35:12 — Report services and "no EEG at all"🔁 37:32 — Who breaks the loop? Not enough bad actors🏅 39:03 — A premium credential above BCIA?🔀 42:36 — Cross-disciplinary competence👮 43:56 — Why standards exist + the brain police🩺 45:54 — Neurologists, EEG reading and credentials🗣️ 49:38 — Life coaches: nothing to lose👪 50:23 — What parents should check📜 53:14 — The hierarchy of efficacy still holds✅ 53:53 — Mari's final advice: who to trust💜 55:19 — Support the show📚 55:55 — Bonus: Joshua Moore on QEEG phenotypes 🔗 Updates & Links:🎓 School of Neurotherapy: https://www.schoolofneurotherapy.com🎵 Dr. Mari Swingle — SwingleSonic apps: https://swinglesonic.com🧩 Joshua Moore — Neurofeedback Care: https://neurofeedbackcare.com🏛️ AAPB: https://www.aapb.org📋 BCIA: https://www.bcia.org ⚠️ Educational content only — not medical advice. Views and experiences are the speakers' own. 💪 Help keep NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast going!👉 Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NeuroNoodle🔔 Like, subscribe, share & hit the bell for weekly episodes #NeuroNoodle #NeurofeedbackTherapyPodcast #Neurofeedback #JayGunkelman #DrMariSwingle #PeteJansons #EEG #QEEG #BCIA #NeurofeedbackStandards #MentalHealth #BrainHealth #Neurotherapy #HealthInsurance #JoshuaMoore #QEEGPhenotypes

    Can You Fry a Brain? Who Polices Neurofeedback | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

  2. Sep 25

    The EEG Cleanup Almost Erased the Answer | Jay Gunkelman

    Jay Gunkelman has read more than half a million brain scans. This week a viewer sent in their own EEG, and Jay examines it live on the show — no name, no clinical backstory (educational purposes only). The catch: the record was so noisy it needed an aggressive cleanup just to be readable — and that cleanup nearly erased the single most important finding in it. Jay reverses the ICA on camera and shows you what almost got thrown away: rhythmic theta coming off the frontal midline — an anterior-cingulate signature — that never showed up in the spectra at all. The lesson every clinician needs: heroic cleanup can blind you to the real finding. Along the way he catches a mislabeled "eyes closed" file, explains why your heartbeat shows up in your brain waves, why your eyes twitch every 80 milliseconds, and why it takes your brain 500 milliseconds to become consciously aware of anything. Then host Pete Jansons runs Jay through the panel's questions — tonic vs. phasic frontal theta, how much cleanup is too much, John Gruzelier's alpha-theta work with conservatory musicians, Martijn Arns and frontal alpha asymmetry, and M. Barry Sterman's neurofeedback work in epilepsy alongside Jay's discussion of surgery and other treatment approaches. The episode closes with Pete laying out a push toward neurofeedback standardization — and Jay making the case that multiple perspectives need to be at the table. 👉 Watch the Brain Bar episode where the panel first reviewed this same brain: [PASTE BRAIN BAR STREAM LINK] 🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🧠 0:00 — A viewer mailed in their brain🍸 1:18 — 600 at the Brain Bar, and the new submission format📩 2:41 — Reading John Doe's EDF cold🧹 3:18 — An aggressively cleaned record — channels lost👁️ 3:45 — Lambda waves and visual hypervigilance🌗 4:15 — Waxing and waning vigilance: awake vs. drowsy📊 9:40 — The spectra: slow alpha vs. fast alpha🔄 10:41 — Reversing the ICA: "don't believe your lying eyes"💓 11:03 — What the cleanup erased: cardioballistic pulse artifact🎯 11:27 — Frontal-midline theta the spectra never showed🧩 15:19 — The anterior cingulate slow peak that got lost🤔 17:14 — The "What, me worry?" rhythm: bold vs. anxious🧭 17:57 — Tonic frontal theta: ADD, OCD, or amotivation?🚨 19:19 — Heroic cleanup, catastrophic miss🙅 19:55 — "I call BS": a mislabeled eyes-closed file❤️ 21:04 — Why your heartbeat shows up in the EEG👀 23:09 — Why your eyes twitch every 80 milliseconds🏉 25:42 — Rugby players vs. ballet dancers: who gets pulse artifact🕳️ 28:03 — "You may blind yourself to a major finding"❓ 29:21 — Panel Q&A: the regulars' questions⏱️ 29:51 — Tonic vs. phasic theta: duration, not morphology✂️ 32:33 — How much cleanup is too much?🌟 34:36 — 500 milliseconds to conscious awareness🎵 38:20 — Gruzelier, the conservatory, and creativity↔️ 41:07 — Frontal alpha asymmetry: Arns, SSRIs, and TMS🩻 42:02 — 90% vs. 30–40%: two doctors, one EEG🔪 43:31 — Epilepsy: neurofeedback, seizures and surgery🩹 45:03 — When they remove the hippocampus and amygdala⚠️ 45:50 — SUDEP and the pressure to consent to surgery🌀 46:14 — iSPOT-D: what depression looks like on QEEG📜 50:26 — The pledge: standardize neurofeedback, starting now🚀 54:20 — "Perfect is the enemy of progress" —🧠 Send us YOUR brain: email your EDF to pete@neuronoodle.com and it goes in the hat for a live Carnac read.🔴 The Brain Bar streams live every Wednesday, 6PM Central: https://www.youtube.com/@NeuroNoodle/streams❤️ Support NeuroNoodle on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NeuroNoodle This podcast is educational and is not medical advice. Always consult a licensed clinician.

    The EEG Cleanup Almost Erased the Answer | Jay Gunkelman

  3. Sep 17

    They Didn't Have a Placebo Group | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

    Dr. Gary Schummer spent 35 years treating ADHD with neurofeedback — so when a major study concluded neurofeedback was "no better than placebo," he sat down and took it apart. This week he joins host Pete Jansons and Joshua Moore (MA, LMHC, BCN) to explain why he believes the study's "placebo" group wasn't a placebo at all, but a second active treatment — which changes what that headline result actually means. From there the conversation goes deeper than one paper: Barry Sterman's NASA cat studies and why animals can't fake a placebo effect, Gary's account of helping hundreds of children reduce or discontinue medication, the epilepsy data that still gets ignored, and the panel's debate over insurance, reimbursement and treatment incentives. Then it turns inward — Gary admits neurofeedback has no agreed standards of care and no shared training curriculum, and Pete makes a pledge on camera to help fix it. "We start today." 🎙️ Panel: Dr. Gary Schummer (35-year clinical neurofeedback; author of the 2024 NeuroRegulation critique) and Joshua Moore (MA, LMHC, BCN — Neurofeedback Care) — host Pete Jansons. 🧠 WHAT WE COVER: 🧠 0:00 — "They didn't have a placebo group": the cold open 👋 0:56 — Welcome: Gary Schummer & Joshua Moore 📄 1:50 — The two ADHD studies & Gary's JAACAP critique 💊 3:13 — Why is neurofeedback held to pharma's standard? 🎓 5:35 — How Gary found neurofeedback — meeting Barry Sterman 🏥 8:09 — 35 years in practice, specializing in ADD 👴 10:07 — Barry Sterman: father of clinical neurofeedback 🚀 11:22 — NASA, jet fuel and the cats 🐱 14:35 — The SMR-trained cats that resisted seizures 🔬 17:31 — Why cats can't have a placebo effect 💰 19:52 — Insurance, incentives & why neurofeedback got sidelined ✍️ 20:20 — Why Gary wrote the critique 🧠 21:10 — Gary on getting kids off medication 📊 23:03 — Sterman's 2000 epilepsy meta-analysis 🎯 28:11 — Gary's core argument against the Arnold study ❌ 29:54 — Not a placebo — another treatment group 🏅 32:56 — From the back of the room to most-improved 🔁 33:31 — Cure vs. remission 🧩 39:58 — Neurofeedback's standards problem 📖 40:54 — No agreed training curriculum 🏛️ 45:42 — "Why isn't there a board?" 🙌 50:01 — Pete's pledge: "We start today" 💵 52:55 — $180 vs $60: the economics of access 🧠 59:50 — Should kids get a brain baseline? 🔗 Updates & Links: 📄 Gary Schummer — 2024 NeuroRegulation critique: https://www.neuroregulation.org/artic... 🧩 Joshua Moore — Neurofeedback Care: https://neurofeedbackcare.com ⚠️ Educational content only — not medical advice. 💪 Help keep NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast going! 👉 Support on Patreon: / neuronoodle 🔔 Like, subscribe, share & hit the bell for weekly episodes

    They Didn't Have a Placebo Group | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

  4. Sep 11

    The EEG That Switched Personalities | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

    Neurofeedback pioneer Joy Lunt, RN opens this classic NeuroNoodle Open Mic conversation with a case that still grabs your attention: a client with dissociative identity disorder whose EEG "utterly changed" mid-session—"like as if somebody else was sitting in the chair." Later, Joy describes seeing the EEG of one personality look like that of a four-year-old child. This is NeuroNoodle before today's Brain Bar—the audience-driven Open Mic format where Pete Jansons brought viewer questions directly to the panel. Joy Lunt, Jay Gunkelman, Dr. Mari Swingle, Dr. Andrew Hill, John Mekrut, Joshua Moore, Anthony Ramos and the crew move from DID and EEG patterns into depression and the salience network, neurofeedback protocols, Joy's striking experience using neurofeedback with her mother after a Parkinson's diagnosis, Parkinson's and repeated head trauma, the panel's debate over "digital Ozempic" and the brain, insomnia, exhausted kids, autism, and why hyperfocus and flow are "not even close." 🎙️ Panel: Joy Lunt (RN, BCN — ISNR Past President), Jay Gunkelman (500K+ brain scans), Dr. Mari Swingle (PhD, RPsych — Director, Swingle Clinic; author, i-Minds), Dr. Andrew Hill (neuroscientist, Peak Brain Institute), John Mekrut (The Balanced Brain; WABN President), Joshua Moore (MA, LMHC, BCN), Anthony Ramos (Science & Technology Discoveries) — host Pete Jansons. 🧠 KEY MOMENTS: 00:00 🔮 Pet psychic EEG + "shouldn't you know that already?" 00:21 🎙️ Welcome to classic NeuroNoodle 01:05 🧠 Joy Lunt's DID case and the EEG change 03:19 👶 A four-year-old personality and EEG pattern 04:43 🔌 Connectivity and what the raw EEG showed 08:19 📊 fMRI, EEG and sample-size problems 11:12 🎯 Anterior cingulate, reward deficiency and TMS 15:27 🚀 Brain-computer interfaces and slow cortical potentials 18:33 ⚠️ Why Joy doesn't believe in "training through" 19:49 🏈 Brett Favre, Parkinson's and CTE 20:07 🦯 Joy's experience with her mother's Parkinson's 25:09 🥊 Head trauma, tremor and Parkinsonism 33:27 🔧 Brain stimulation, tinnitus and implants 35:10 🧭 Insula targeting, MEG and LORETA 37:17 💊 The panel's "digital Ozempic" debate 40:06 🎵 Earworms, insomnia and the anterior cingulate 42:04 🧠 Why the same protocol doesn't work for everyone 46:17 🧒 School problems, ADHD and overloaded kids 50:35 😴 Why exhausted kids may need a different approach 53:07 ✍️ Neurofeedback while doing homework 55:21 🧩 Autism, sleep and individualized treatment 59:18 🎯 Hyperfocus vs. flow: "Not even close" 1:00:12 👋 Closing the Open Mic 1:02:16 📚 Joshua Moore on QEEG phenotypes 🔗 Updates & Links: 🧠 Jay Gunkelman — Suisun City Summit: https://suisuncitysummit.com 🩺 Joy Lunt, RN — ISNR spotlight: https://isnr.org/single-post/2018/06/... 🧠 Dr. Mari Swingle — Swingle Clinic: https://swingleclinic.com/about/our-s... 🎵 Dr. Mari Swingle — SwingleSonic apps: https://swinglesonic.com 🧠 Dr. Andrew Hill — Peak Brain Institute: https://www.andrewhillphd.com 🧠 John Mekrut — The Balanced Brain: https://johnmekrut.com 🧩 Joshua Moore — Neurofeedback Care: https://neurofeedbackcare.com 🔬 Anthony Ramos — Science & Technology Discoveries: / 501009709911572 🎓 School of Neurotherapy: https://www.schoolofneurotherapy.com ⚠️ This program presents clinical observations, professional opinions and individual case experiences for educational and informational purposes. It is not medical advice. 💪 Help keep NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast going! 👉 Support on Patreon: / neuronoodle 🔔 Like, subscribe, share & hit the bell for weekly episodes

    The EEG That Switched Personalities | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

  5. Sep 4

    Why Is This 4½-Year-Old's EEG So Slow? | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

    Jay Gunkelman has read more than half a million brain scans - and in this Carnac session he and host Pete Jansons put one of the hardest cases on the table: a four-and-a-half-year-old, nonverbal, what most people would bluntly call "full autism." On paper it looks hopeless. Jay's blind read shows a brain running like a six-month-old's - no background alpha, diffuse slowing, and a sharp-slow focus buried in the left-temporal language area. Then comes the part nobody expects: in the research Jay cites, 70% of autistic clients show epileptiform activity on EEG - and 85% when you record a full 24 hours including sleep. Dr. Mari Swingle joins to turn the squiggles into a plan - where to start, why sensory integration has to come before language, and why she underlines the word "yet." The bigger surprise is the prognosis: Jay has watched kids exactly like this "come out of the diagnostic categorization entirely" and pass for neurotypical. It's not a cure, and it's not a shot or a pill - it's 40 to 100+ sessions, parents on board, and a long-term relationship. As Jay puts it: it's not magic, it's neuroscience. 🎙️ Panel: Jay Gunkelman (500K+ brain scans), Dr. Mari Swingle (author, iMinds) - host Pete Jansons. 🧠 WHAT WE COVER: 🧠 0:00 - Brain Bar recap + "we're all students of the EEG" 〰️ 1:40 - "A squiggly line is a squiggly line": evolving the show 👦 2:13 - The case: a nonverbal 4-and-a-half-year-old with "full autism" 📋 3:54 - John Hughes & the normal-values cheat sheet 👁️ 4:48 - Eyes closed: hunting for background alpha 🐌 5:43 - A diffusely slow EEG hiding fast rhythmic beta 🔄 6:58 - Phase reversal: a left-temporal focus at Wernicke's ⚡ 7:42 - Spindling beta + sharp-slow: is it a spike? 📊 8:33 - 70% of autism has epileptiform content (85% on 24-hr EEG) 📍 9:41 - Localizing the left-temporal discharge 🔍 10:43 - Reading the raw EEG: spindles, artifacts & the 30 Hz beta problem 🚦 18:37 - Right-frontal impulse control & affective gating 📐 20:17 - What SHOULD a 4-and-a-half-year-old's alpha be? 🍼 21:46 - Slow for age: a brain running like a 6-month-old 🧩 23:29 - Sensory integration: the foundation for language 🧬 24:34 - Excess delta & the myelin story 👀 25:55 - Eyes open: same story, left-temporal worst 🌀 30:55 - Source analysis: independent components & LORETA 🏛️ 33:38 - Going deep: hippocampus, parahippocampus & insula 🩺 38:20 - Dr. Mari's eyeball read: a compliant "6-month-old" child 🎯 39:31 - Where to start: temporal training for language 🌱 40:00 - "A sweet little child... and I would underline YET" ♻️ 41:53 - "The brain is neuroplastic": coming out of the diagnosis ✨ 42:58 - "I've seen kids like this become neurotypical" 🎚️ 44:07 - What expectations do you give the parents? 🚲 45:17 - "You're fixing the bicycle you're riding" 🧅 46:09 - Peeling the onion: progress you can't see day to day 🏋️ 47:16 - Not a shot, not a pill: neurofeedback as working out 🔢 49:11 - The real numbers: 40-60 sessions (100+ with epilepsy) ❤️‍🩹 49:44 - Parental reprieve: "they're always, always on" ⏳ 51:42 - No "cure" delusions: 20-year relationships & "it depends" 🪙 53:02 - The Suisun Summit coin + where to find Jay 🔗 Updates & Links: 🧠 Jay Gunkelman - Suisun Neuroscience Summit: https://suisun.eegstrategies.com 🎵 Dr. Mari Swingle - SwingleSonic apps: https://swinglesonic.com 📖 Dr. Mari Swingle - "iMinds" ⚠️ Educational content only - not medical advice. 💪 Help keep NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast going! 👉 Support on Patreon: / neuronoodle 🔔 Like, subscribe, share & hit the bell for weekly episodes #NeuroNoodle #NeurofeedbackTherapyPodcast #Neurofeedback #JayGunkelman #PeteJansons #DrMariSwingle #EEG #QEEG #BrainMapping #Autism #Neurodiversity #Epileptiform #Neuroplasticity #Carnac #MentalHealth #BrainHealth #Neurotherapy

    Why Is This 4½-Year-Old's EEG So Slow? | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

  6. Aug 27

    This EEG Isn't Real | Jay Gunkelman | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

    Jay Gunkelman has read more than half a million brain scans — and this week host Pete Jansons handed him one he refused to read. Working through the recording, Jay's verdict wasn't a diagnosis or an interpretation. It was simpler: "This isn't real. Do it again." That kicks off a conversation with Jay and Dr. Mari Swingle about the thing that gets lost in all the excitement over brain maps: the interpretation is only as good as the recording underneath it. From the minimum standards most people skip, to the craft of pulling usable data off a squirming 4½-year-old, to why the best AI interpretation Jay has ever seen still only earns a C-minus — this one is about what separates real EEG from "We Map Your Crap." Plus a bonus segment with Joshua Moore on QEEG phenotypes. 🎙️ Panel: Jay Gunkelman (500K+ brain scans), Dr. Mari Swingle (author, iMinds) — host Pete Jansons. 🧠 WHAT WE COVER: 🧠 0:00 — Cold open: "This isn't real" 🎙️ 0:45 — Welcome + Jay's October tuxedo / Suisun City Summit ⚾ 3:29 — The "knuckleball": Case 17 comes in 🚫 4:46 — Why this EEG can't be interpreted 🧹 5:23 — "The name of the game isn't We Map Your Crap" 📏 5:56 — Minimum standards: calibration, impedance & the med-legal trap 📉 12:52 — 32 Hz glutamate beta vs. norepinephrine beta ⏱️ 15:16 — Why a 2-minute EEG misses what matters 🧒 22:14 — The realities of recording an autistic 4½-year-old 🦆 29:07 — The rubber-ducky trick for recording kids 🎁 32:57 — Bribery, treasure chests & getting cooperation 🪡 38:02 — When EEG meant 21 needle electrodes 🏈 41:17 — Dr. Mari on baseline EEGs & contact sports 🤖 44:30 — The best AI interpretation Jay's seen? A C-minus 🧠 45:19 — Dr. Mari's case for "assisted intelligence" 🏛️ 55:14 — Did the DSM move the goalposts on EEG? 💜 1:08:55 — Support the show 📚 1:09:40 — Bonus: Joshua Moore on QEEG phenotypes 🔗 Updates & Links: 🧠 Jay Gunkelman — Suisun City Summit: https://suisuncitysummit.com 🎓 School of Neurotherapy: https://www.schoolofneurotherapy.com 🧩 Joshua Moore — Neurofeedback Care: https://neurofeedbackcare.com 🎵 Dr. Mari Swingle — SwingleSonic apps: https://swinglesonic.com ⚠️ Educational content only — not medical advice. 💪 Help keep NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast going! 👉 Support on Patreon: / neuronoodle 🔔 Like, subscribe, share & hit the bell for weekly episodes #NeuroNoodle #NeurofeedbackTherapyPodcast #Neurofeedback #JayGunkelman #PeteJansons #EEG #QEEG #BrainMapping #MentalHealth #BrainHealth #Neurotherapy #DrMariSwingle #JoshuaMoore #EEGArtifacts #GlutamateBeta #DSM #QEEGPhenotypes

    This EEG Isn't Real | Jay Gunkelman | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

  7. Aug 20

    A Stranger Sent Us His Brain | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

    This week a total stranger handed NeuroNoodle his brain. He pulled his own EEG, stripped out every identifying detail, and asked host Pete Jansons and Jay Gunkelman — the man who's read over half a million brain scans — to "read my brain" live on the show. What follows is a rare, unscripted master class: Jay decoding a real, de-identified brain map in real time, with Dr. Mari Swingle on the clinical side. Along the way: how to catch a brain map that's lying to you (Gauss's Law), why a 50Hz hum means the scan is European, how a sleep spindle and an SMR are the same wave, what very fast "glutamate beta" can suggest about a hyper-excitable cortex — and why Jay says the DSM has "no predictive validity" for choosing treatment. Then the reveal: a sharp, high-IQ 25-year-old who moved back home and burned out — and what Jay and Dr. Mari would do about it. Plus Joshua Moore on QEEG phenotypes and the "85%" finding. 🎙️ Panel: Jay Gunkelman (500K+ brain scans) and Dr. Mari Swingle (author, iMinds) — host Pete Jansons. With a de-identified EEG and a bonus QEEG-phenotypes segment from Joshua Moore (MA, LMHC, BCN). 📺 This is the follow-up to the 8/12 Brain Bar, where Joshua Moore first worked up this donated EEG live with the panel — here Jay gives his own read. Watch that episode below. 🧠 WHAT WE COVER: 🧠 0:00 — Cold open: your brain is plastic (even intractable epilepsy can turn around) 🎂 0:49 — Welcome + Dr. Mari's birthday before her Europe trip 🎁 3:03 — A stranger donates his brain: the de-identified EEG ⚠️ 3:29 — "Educational only": the tech vs. the licensed clinician 🌍 3:45 — European scan: 50Hz hum, common-mode rejection & montage 🔌 6:38 — Hunting the hum: power blocks, recliner motors & tri-field meters ⚡ 8:21 — Gauss's Law: how to tell when an EEG is lying to you 🧹 10:05 — Not a bad recording: reading the artifacts 🎛️ 12:13 — ICA cleanup: Infomax vs. FastICA 👁️ 14:58 — Pulling out eye movements, one component at a time 🌊 20:33 — Background alpha, sharp waves & wake-to-drowsy lability 😳 25:20 — Lambda waves, the amygdala & the jumpy brain ⚖️ 28:20 — Eyes closed + the med-legal rule: never delete your raw file 😴 30:36 — The vigilance model: how alpha moves as you drift off 🛌 31:10 — Vertex sharp waves, K-complexes & SMR = sleep spindles 🎨 33:10 — "Picasso at work": why artifacting is done by eye 😬 36:00 — O1, headache tension, TMJ & EMG feedback for jaw pain 📍 40:06 — Spikes vs. sharp waves & hyper-excitable cortex 🔥 42:17 — Decoding beta spindles: norepinephrine vs. glutamate beta 🧲 45:30 — The anterior cingulate & why TMS treats the symptom, not the brain 💊 46:00 — Antipsychotics, anticonvulsants & the Clozapine seizure risk 📉 49:06 — Why the DSM has "no predictive validity" 🙋 50:46 — The reveal: a 25-year-old who moved home and burned out 📈 50:53 — Reading his brain: fast alpha, high IQ & the memory link 🫥 51:58 — Social perception, obsessive frontal features & mood 🎯 55:33 — The plan: SMR training, frontal suppression & "direction not correction" 🐚 58:32 — The cochlear-implant lesson: relearning to feel 💜 1:00:45 — Support the show 📚 1:01:17 — Bonus: Joshua Moore on QEEG phenotypes & the "85%" finding 🔗 Updates & Links: 🍺 Brain Bar — source episode (8/12/26): https://youtube.com/live/aNuJjKg4AcQ 🧠 Jay Gunkelman — Suisun City Summit: https://suisuncitysummit.com 🎓 School of Neurotherapy: https://www.schoolofneurotherapy.com 🧩 Joshua Moore — Neurofeedback Care: https://neurofeedbackcare.com 🎵 Dr. Mari Swingle — SwingleSonic apps: https://swinglesonic.com ⚠️ Educational content only — not medical advice. 💪 Help keep NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast going! 👉 Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NeuroNoodle 🔔 Like, subscribe, share & hit the bell for weekly episodes

  8. Aug 13

    Your Brain Is Lying to You | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

    Jay Gunkelman has read more than half a million brain scans — and this week he and host Pete Jansons open the Brain Bar with a claim that sounds impossible: your brain is lying to you about time itself. In the experiments Jay walks through, a person's body reacts emotionally to an image seconds BEFORE a random generator has even chosen which image they'll see. From there the panel takes your live questions across the map: the anxiety medications that quietly dig a two-year hole, kids told to remove part of their brain for epilepsy who turned it around another way, what autism, ADHD and addiction secretly share on an EEG, and how your alpha rhythm changes across your whole life. Plus Joshua Moore's intro to QEEG phenotypes — and Josh's own story of beating "incurable" torticollis after Walter Reed told him he'd end up in a wheelchair. 🎙️ Panel: Jay Gunkelman (500K+ brain scans), Dr. Mari Swingle (author, iMinds), Joshua Moore (MA, LMHC, BCN), Anthony Ramos (founder, Science & Technology Discoveries) — host Pete Jansons. 🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🧠 0:00 — Cold open: beating "incurable" torticollis + welcome🤖 3:45 — Inside Neuralink: "no trials, no oversight"🩻 4:58 — Non-invasive alternatives: stentrodes & AI-chip implants🔮 6:06 — Telepathy, telekinesis & Dean Radin's precognition experiments🧪 8:51 — Real science vs. the mad scientist⚖️ 10:05 — Doing brain science the responsible way🎬 12:41 — "Mickey 17," fail-fast culture & cracking eggs🎯 16:31 — Precision psychiatry & the Peak Alpha biomarker📊 18:04 — From DSM diagnosis to treatment prediction🧩 20:16 — Brain-hacking psychiatry & the low-voltage-fast ADHD brain🌊 23:50 — Alpha-theta training for PTSD & addiction🎣 25:35 — The addiction brain, GABA & the mind that won't switch off🍺 28:07 — GABA, alcohol & the "four shots to make alpha" study💊 29:31 — The benzodiazepine trap: Klonopin, Ambien & long withdrawal🔧 33:33 — Neurotherapy for benzo withdrawal⏱️ 35:25 — Training the normal brain vs. the clinical brain🔪 36:34 — Neurofeedback vs. surgery for epilepsy🎾 37:28 — Real cases: kids who beat intractable epilepsy📉 39:52 — Low-voltage EEG & SMR training pitfalls📈 42:55 — How alpha develops over a lifetime🎚️ 50:02 — Well-tuned alpha into your 90s + the "brain barometer"🧬 51:58 — What is autism? Epileptiform content & the 85% finding🏛️ 54:12 — The VA, bureaucracy & government contracts🎤 57:43 — Meet the panel: how they found neurofeedback📜 1:03:04 — Jay's origin story + the torticollis/migraine link💜 1:08:55 — Support the show📚 1:09:40 — Bonus: Joshua Moore on QEEG phenotypes 🔗 Updates & Links:🧠 Jay Gunkelman — Suisun City Summit: https://suisuncitysummit.com🎓 School of Neurotherapy: https://www.schoolofneurotherapy.com🧩 Joshua Moore — Neurofeedback Care: https://neurofeedbackcare.com🎵 Dr. Mari Swingle — SwingleSonic apps: https://swinglesonic.com📖 Dean Radin — "Real Magic" (Institute of Noetic Sciences) ⚠️ Educational content only — not medical advice. 💪 Help keep NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast going!👉 Support on Patreon:   / neuronoodle  🔔 Like, subscribe, share & hit the bell for weekly episodes #NeuroNoodle #NeurofeedbackTherapyPodcast #Neurofeedback #JayGunkelman #PeteJansons #EEG #QEEG #BrainMapping #MentalHealth #BrainHealth #Neurotherapy #DrMariSwingle #JoshuaMoore #AnthonyRamos #Precognition #DeanRadin #Benzodiazepines #Epilepsy #ADHD #QEEGPhenotypes

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Featuring CoHosts: QEEG Legend Jay Gunkelman the man who has read over 500,000 Brain Scans, Dr. Mari Swingle the Author of iMinds and Pete Jansons NeuroNoodle uses technology to improve the quality of your life. We discuss symptoms such as ADHD, Anxiety, and Depression and the different ways they can be addressed via Neurofeedback, Brain Maps, QEEG, and Talk Therapy Want to come on the show? Have a topic? Pete@neuronoodle.com Sign up to our Newsletter https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/moOsZyB/NeuroNoodle

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