BCIA would mark this EEG wrong — Jay Gunkelman calls it vascular ischemia anyway. Jay goes in **blind** — no diagnosis, no report — and disagrees with Joshua's TBI read on the exact same 50-year-old EEG. Joshua reviewed it live on The Brain Bar the night before. The next day on Thursday Carnac, Jay cold-reads the slow alpha at PZ, lands on hyperbaric + 40 Hz photobiomodulation, and shows how neurofeedback fits into the treatment plan. Read the brain, treatment follows the brain. The story doesn't matter. 👉 Watch the Brain Bar episode where Joshua reviewed this same EEG: https://youtube.com/live/tUryp2Deu2A?feature=share 🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🎤 0:00 — BCIA Says Wrong, Neurology Says Right (cold open)🎯 3:15 — BCIA would mark this wrong, neurology calls it his alpha🧒 4:18 — A 50-year-old should not have a 3-year-old's frequency tuning🌀 5:30 — Left temporal persistence vs right temporal bursts😴 6:56 — CZ beta as an insomnia marker💤 7:20 — Stage one drowsiness: alpha dropout and resurgent burst🌈 8:29 — Adding color: alpha peak sits just outside band at 7.81 Hz🧮 9:01 — Slow alpha = semantic and declarative memory not optimized🔥 10:31 — Hypercoherence at 0.6: regulatory issues up front👤 11:51 — Connecting technical to human: what does this patient deal with daily?🧓 12:16 — Mild cognitive impairment expected — not surprising📉 12:33 — PZ alpha predicts rate of cognitive decline 2 years out💡 13:07 — Photobiomodulation, red light, 10 Hz at the back of the head🩸 13:45 — 13 Hz temporals, 15 Hz frontal: gentle perfusion for ischemia👴 14:53 — Jay at 76 has a 12 Hz alpha — this 50yo near 7.8 is severe📡 15:11 — Your alpha frequency IS your sample rate of the world🔧 15:46 — This brain needs a major tune-up before it needs a rebuild🎓 21:42 — Joshua said severe TBI post-concussion syndrome⚖️ 21:56 — Jay's call: vascular ischemia, not necessarily TBI🧪 22:14 — Doesn't matter for the treatment — ischemia is ischemia🛌 22:46 — Get him sleeping better first, then SMR/beta balance🧠 23:34 — CZ-C4-PZ for brain brightening at the alpha hub🏥 24:39 — This one is a really good candidate for hyperbaric💡 26:20 — 40 Hz photobiomodulation: boosts mitochondria🛡️ 26:53 — Strong assistance avoiding cognitive decline at the precipice🩺 28:06 — What does a loved one do tomorrow morning if they get this EEG?🎯 31:50 — Read the brain, treatment follows the brain — the whole method🏈 32:54 — NFL draft tonight: do you watch football differently now?👊 33:48 — Subconcussive blows: linemen, CTE summing up over years🥊 36:53 — Fencing pose: ding the brainstem, MMA knockouts at 80%🌱 39:01 — How many people have OD'd on marijuana? You'd choke first📅 39:38 — Suisun Summit October, qEEGCourses.com 🎵 MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE:🎶 Bonk on the Head: https://open.spotify.com/album/2EddRD6V1y1057qzq9sYJF🎶 Seven Hertz at the Edge: https://open.spotify.com/album/0eSxm3c6nBy1rYF6t0wb6f 🔗 SHOW LINKS:👉 Watch Joshua review this same brain on The Brain Bar: https://youtube.com/live/tUryp2Deu2A?feature=shareJoshua Moore's qEEG Courses: https://www.qeegcourses.com/Jay Gunkelman's Suisun Summit: https://courses.eegstrategies.com/Support NeuroNoodle on Patreon: https://patreon.com/NeuroNoodle 🧠 ABOUT THE SHOW:Every Wednesday at 6PM Central — The Brain Bar LIVE on StreamYard. Joshua Moore presents an anonymized EEG. The panel reads it live. Every Thursday — Carnac: Jay Gunkelman blind cold-reads the same brain.

Jay Gunkelman goes in BLIND — no diagnosis, no report, no hints. Just the EEG that Joshua Moore reviewed live with the panel on The Brain Bar. The next day on Thursday Carnac, Jay cold-reads the same 58-year-old female and finds a 45-degree diagonal line running from her left frontal cortex to her right posterior — the classic geometric signature of a coup-contra-coup injury. Plus a right temporal spike, left frontal alpha hyper-coherence, and Davidson's depressed mood signature. After half a million EEGs, the patterns reach out and grab you. The reveal? Depressed female with a history of a right-side head knock. Jay called it from the waveform alone.👉 Watch the Brain Bar episode where Joshua reviewed this same EEG: https://youtube.com/live/tUryp2Deu2A?feature=share🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🎙️ 0:54 — Good morning Jake Gunkelman, or should I say Carnac?🔍 2:02 — Case five: a 58-year-old female, that's all Jay knows🧠 2:57 — Anterior cingulate beta: the salience network is active and focused⚡ 4:48 — The rhythm is left frontally but not right frontally🎯 8:14 — Sharp transient right temporal: real signal, field surrounds it, it repeats❓ 9:09 — Can Jay tell male vs female from EEG alone? No, but norms matter🔬 12:32 — Leptiform activity: spikes don't always mean epilepsy😤 13:50 — False emotion, fit of rage, pseudobulbar affect from temporal discharge🧩 15:40 — Fast alpha at the back of the head: Niedermeyer's 11 to 16 Hz📉 16:50 — Half a microvolt scale: this EEG is very small💤 17:43 — The Goldilocks frequency of 10: light drowsing, resurgent alpha🔄 18:31 — Eyes closed, presto changeo: now we've got lots of alpha🧱 19:25 — Where the hell did F8 go? Puny little runts of alpha right frontally⚖️ 19:50 — Which side is wrong? Big alpha left vs suppressed right🎲 22:00 — God doesn't roll dice: spike and alpha on the same side is no coincidence📊 25:44 — Dominant alpha peak 8.5 Hz, slow edge 7.5 Hz📐 28:32 — The 45-degree line: left frontal to right posterior💔 29:12 — Davidson's frontal alpha asymmetry equals mood regulation🥥 30:35 — Coup-contra-coup: maybe something happened🎯 34:20 — The skull as a parabolic reflector: percussion focuses energy at a distance🔗 36:44 — Dominant alpha coherence: hyper left frontal, absent right posterior🧠 38:07 — Jay's full read: depressed, right-side pathology, possible head injury✅ 38:37 — The reveal: depressed female with right-side head knock, Jay nailed it blind📚 39:20 — I read EEGs, not reports🎯 42:00 — Why we do this every week💊 45:03 — One-third of psychotics need anticonvulsants, not antipsychotics🎖️ 46:11 — Jay's no-bid military contract story: Camp Lejeune data🏆 48:20 — Suisun Summit October birthday bash: silver commemorative coin🧬 49:48 — The gift of neurodiversity: autism genes and intellect🏖️ 50:36 — The Outliers Club origin story: Cancun, Dirk DeRitter, the OC from the OG🎓 52:57 — Joshua Moore's QEEG Phenotypes workshop preview at qEEGCourses.com💡 54:40 — Why 85% improvement beats any single medication study🎵 MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE:🎶 The 45-Degree Line: https://open.spotify.com/album/13VJ0SBsyi6czrdNCuNIfe?si=FMzaKx4wTZCJkvAhyAlP1g🎶 The Slow Edge of Alpha: https://open.spotify.com/album/1uooNnT1eYIF2C8yr72jpN?si=dNHgOkdETZ-4smaFVvWd2A🔗 SHOW LINKS:👉 Watch Joshua review this same brain on The Brain Bar: https://youtube.com/live/tUryp2Deu2A?feature=shareSupport NeuroNoodle: https://www.patreon.com/neuronoodle🧠 ABOUT THE SHOW:Every Wednesday at 6PM Central — The Brain Bar LIVE on StreamYardJoshua Moore presents an anonymized EEG. The panel reads it live.Every Thursday — Carnac: Jay Gunkelman blind cold-reads the same brain.#NeuroNoodle #NeurofeedbackTherapyPodcast #JayGunkelman #PeteJansons #EEG #QEEG #BrainMapping #Neurofeedback #MentalHealth #BrainHealth #Neurotherapy #CoupContraCoup #AlphaAsymmetry #TemporalSpike #SingleBlindedRead #BrainBar #ThursdayCarnac #IrritableFocus #MoodRegulation #HeadInjury #JoshuaMoore