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  • "The Diagnosis World Is Imaginary" — Jay Gunkelman | NeuroNoodle Live

    "The Diagnosis World Is Imaginary" — Jay Gunkelman | NeuroNoodle Live
    2026/07/09
    Why do neurofeedback practitioners get way better results than the published studies? A listener from the Neurofeedback Exchange Facebook group asked — and the panel spent the hour answering. Joy Lunt's short version: research runs in "the tightest handcuffs you could find." Jay Gunkelman brings the receipts: one artifacted EEG file sent to 15 commercial services came back as pure chaos — and the journal editor called the paper too embarrassing to publish, until Jay threatened to resign. Then the hard-criteria bombshell: standard protocols scored 30%, QEEG-guided hit 60%. Plus the $3M NIMH ADHD study that changed its hypothesis midstream, why BCIA certification doesn't guarantee a good provider, Jay's "the diagnosis world is imaginary," and the kid who lost 80 sessions of progress to one bike crash — and got it back in 24.🎵 "If somebody says they've mastered the EEG — run away." — Jay🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🎤 0:00 — Welcome: live Q&A with Jay Gunkelman, Joy Lunt, John Mecru❓ 0:56 — The question: why do practitioners beat the studies?🔒 1:15 — Joy: research wears the tightest handcuffs you could find📄 5:11 — One EEG file → 15 commercial services → chaos📰 7:52 — "Too embarrassing to publish" — Jay threatens to resign📊 9:39 — Reddit QEEGs aren't comparable: different databases, different people1️⃣ 10:21 — QEEG is step two; the raw EEG is step one🎓 12:16 — Andrew Hill's UCLA lateralization dissertation🛒 16:48 — Why a clinician beats the $300 Amazon gadget💰 19:29 — The $3M NIMH ADHD study autopsy🚨 20:59 — They changed the hypothesis mid-study💊 22:26 — MDMA and the FDA: same rigor problem🧪 24:28 — "Did you benefit?" is a coercive success metric📈 25:45 — Colin Wright 1998: hard criteria, 30% vs 60%🔍 31:52 — How do you actually find a good clinician?🏃 34:04 — "If somebody says they've mastered it — run away"📜 36:20 — What BCIA certification does and doesn't guarantee🗣️ 38:52 — No study shows ISF beats traditional — Reddit isn't data🏷️ 43:13 — Diagnosis is a DSM checklist; symptoms tell you more🌫️ 44:41 — Jay: "The diagnosis world is imaginary"🧬 45:53 — The phenotype model: EEG patterns that cut across labels💬 48:20 — Joy's stigma-ectomy: depression reframed as brain circuits👦 53:56 — 1992: Joy's son, the Ritalin letter, and the answer that changed everything👂 57:08 — Not ADD at all: severe auditory processing⏳ 58:08 — How long does it last? Lubar's 10-year follow-up🚲 59:25 — 80 sessions, one bike crash, 24 sessions back✅ 1:03:34 — Isabella & Maggie: years seizure-free, medication-free🌱 1:05:00 — Developmental trauma: the episode we owe you🗨️ 1:06:46 — Fix the neural substrate, THEN talk therapy clicks🔥 1:11:08 — "I've lived my whole life inside a burning building"🤝 1:21:47 — What mentoring really costs (and what it should look like)🎧 1:28:40 — John's home-device verdict: mostly not neurofeedback📚 1:30:23 — Joshua Moore previews his QEEG phenotypes workshop📊 1:32:01 — 85% improvement pairing meds to a phenotype🔗 SHOW LINKS:Joshua Moore's qEEG Courses: https://www.qeegcourses.com/Dr. Mari Swingle's SwingleSonic apps (BrainCalm, Sleep, Focus): https://swinglesonic.com/Jay Gunkelman's Suisun Summit: https://courses.eegstrategies.com/Support NeuroNoodle on Patreon: / 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 brain.Press: pete@neuronoodle.com#NeuroNoodle #Neurofeedback #JayGunkelman #JoyLunt #JohnMecru #PeteJansons #EEG #QEEG #BrainMapping #ADHD #BCIA #Ritalin #AuditoryProcessing #qEEGPhenotypes #DiagnosisVsSymptoms #NeurofeedbackResearch #Lubar #ISF #AlphaTheta #HomeNeurofeedback #DevelopmentalTrauma #BesselVanDerKolk #MentalHealth #BrainTraining #JoshuaMoore #NeurofeedbackExchange
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  • You Can't Teach 30 Brains One Lesson | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

    You Can't Teach 30 Brains One Lesson | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast
    2026/07/02
    Jay Gunkelman has read more than half a million brain scans — and this week he and host Pete Jansons skip the EEG entirely to answer a bigger question: how would you actually redesign school? Jay takes the magic wand to class sizes, teacher pay, the trades, and why you can't give one lesson to thirty different brains. Along the way he tells the story of how he beat the system himself — registering through the University of North Dakota's computer center, signing his own advisor card, running a lab without a degree, and getting one mailed to him anyway. Then the neuroscience: how a whack-a-mole game, a go/no-go task, and a 35-minute dry-sensor EEG can spot the ADHD, sensory-processing, and OCD signatures a behavioral test walks right past. Plus Joshua Moore's intro to QEEG phenotypes. 🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🧠 0:00 — No brain scan this week (and why) + Joshua's Nature paper📚 0:27 — Academic referencing: why APA wants five citations within ten years🕰️ 1:49 — The old masters you can't cite: Caton, Gauss, Gibbs & Gibbs🤖 3:19 — Jay's "AI writing career": plagiarizing the plagiarizer🏫 3:57 — Schools are overloaded — the case for baselining the brain early🍲 4:35 — Can you really give one lesson to thirty brains?🔎 5:04 — Misbehavior, testing, and where the EEG fits in🥁 6:41 — Thirty kids tapping their feet: engagement vs. over-arousal📝 7:39 — Jay's report cards: straight A's and a "3" for staring out the window🚫 8:34 — Jay hates lines: the North Dakota punch-card story🗂️ 9:31 — The advisor-card hack — signing his own registration🔬 11:16 — Pre-med, the lab, and leaving without a degree✉️ 11:26 — The student revolt and the degree they mailed him🌊 12:42 — Redesigning school: AP classes and a wave table for every kid🎯 14:43 — Grouping kids by level without putting them in a box💸 15:31 — Pay teachers more, cut admin overhead, let AI do the paperwork🎮 16:44 — The neuroscience playroom: whack-a-mole and float-a-ball spot ADD🌱 17:54 — Montessori, inspiration, and the teacher as mentor🧩 18:34 — When doubling pay isn't enough: a teacher can't be the therapist too📋 20:17 — IEPs, accommodations, and referring out for neuropsych🕹️ 21:31 — ADHD as an engagement problem: turning therapy into games🏠 22:15 — Larry Van Bloom's neurofeedback homeschool for reactive-attachment kids🔁 23:14 — Getting kids "fixed enough" to re-enter the mainstream🚦 24:51 — go/no-go, CPT, and the OCD a click-test misses (anterior cingulate)🧷 25:43 — Sensory-processing problems vs. simple ADD⚡ 26:00 — A 35-minute dry-sensor EEG, cleaned in seconds😴 27:03 — Sleep, vigilance, and the take-home ring🔧 28:02 — The Career Academy: welding, CAD/CAM, job offers out of high school💰 29:20 — $100K in loans vs. $100K a year: the trades aren't a lower tier🎓 30:26 — "I'm a tech": knowledge over the diploma📜 31:18 — "It's a BS": the bachelor of science punchline🧪 32:07 — The $30,000 test: could a proctored exam replace tuition?✍️ 33:31 — Jay wrote the first QEEG exam — and 60% failed it👋 35:19 — Wrap-up: regular programming (and a real EEG) next week🎙️ 36:28 — Joshua Moore: an intro to QEEG phenotypes📊 38:03 — 85% improvement when you pair medication with the phenotype 🔗 Updates & Links:🧠 Jay Gunkelman — Suisun City Summit: https://suisuncitysummit.com🎓 School of Neurotherapy: https://www.schoolofneurotherapy.com/...🧩 Joshua Moore — Neurofeedback Care: https://neurofeedbackcare.com/ 💪 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 #SchoolReform #ADHD #QEEGPhenotypes #JoshuaMoore
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  • A 17-Year-Old's Brain, Read Blind From the EEG | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

    A 17-Year-Old's Brain, Read Blind From the EEG | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast
    2026/06/25
    Jay Gunkelman is handed one clue — the patient is 17 — and reads the EEG blind. From the brainwave patterns alone, he explains why the recording points toward a right-hemisphere traumatic brain injury and discusses the cortical hyperexcitability that may follow. Before the cold-read, a published study flips addiction treatment on its head: treat the brain's EEG phenotype instead of the DSM label. In a 30-person case series, this was associated with an average General Intellectual Ability (GIA) increase from 99 to 120 over one year, as discussed in the episode. 🧠 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN🧩 Why "fast activity that isn't muscle" — sinusoidal beta over the right frontal area — caught Jay's eye on a blind read🩻 Why excess delta points to white-matter damage, separating a severe TBI from a mild concussion⚡ Why glutamate may contribute to cortical hyperexcitability after traumatic brain injury🍺 Why some low-alpha brains may need much more alcohol to feel "normal," according to the discussion📈 How treating addiction by EEG phenotype, not DSM category, was associated with a GIA increase from 99 to 120 over one year🔁 Why staying clean isn't the whole story when, as the panel puts it, the anterior cingulate "changes channels" ⏱️ CHAPTERS🎬 00:00 The brain we couldn't explain🧠 01:38 Treating addiction by the EEG, not the DSM label🔀 04:44 The two engines of addiction: overarousal and the compulsive drive🍺 06:15 Why an alcoholic needs four shots just to feel normal📈 09:26 One year later: a 21-point IQ jump, demented to normal🔁 16:30 Clean and sober — but chasing a new addiction🕶️ 17:31 Carnac: Jay's only clue is "the patient is 17"🔥 18:39 The right-frontal fire that isn't muscle💥 21:07 Why Jay ruled out a simple concussion🩻 25:18 Why the delta means white matter, and a severe TBI⚡ 26:03 Glutamate, a hyperexcitable cortex, and the drug it points to⚖️ 28:41 "Benign" epilepsy and the study that says treat anyway📉 33:09 How the DSM quietly broke EEG reading❓ 41:24 Viewer questions: session frequency and tracking real change📱 52:06 Dr. Mari Swingle's BrainCalm, Focus & Sleep apps 👥 GUESTSJay Gunkelman, QEEGDDr. Mari Swingle, PhD — author of i-Minds 🔗 WATCH / SUPPORTSupport NeuroNoodle on Patreon: / neuronoodle SwingleSonic apps (BrainCalm, Focus, Sleep): https://swinglesonic.com/Jay Gunkelman's Suisun City Summit: https://courses.eegstrategies.com/Joshua Moore's clinic: https://neurofeedbackcare.com/ 📞 pete@neuronoodle.com ⚠️ Educational content only — not medical advice. Any discussion of medications or treatment is clinical commentary, not a recommendation for any individual. #Neurofeedback #QEEG #ThursdayCarnac
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  • Jay Cold-Reads a 10-Year-Old's Brain: "Not Broken, Just Needs a Tune-Up"

    Jay Cold-Reads a 10-Year-Old's Brain: "Not Broken, Just Needs a Tune-Up"
    2026/06/18
    Jay Gunkelman goes in BLIND on a 10-year-old's EEG — no diagnosis, no story. What he finds isn't a broken brain: it's gross over-arousal with FAST alpha near 12 Hz, beta spindling up at 32 Hz that a database stopping at 30 would never see, and a left-side sympathetic source pointing at the insula. The likely complaint? Anxiety — maybe labeled OCD, maybe pushed toward an SSRI that would make this brain worse, not better. Jay lays out the actual fix: the Scott protocol's pre-treatment FIRST (calm the sympathetic trigger and slow content), THEN slow-alpha and alpha-theta training to drop the arousal. Read the brain, and the trajectory of a whole life changes. Plus: Joshua Moore previews his first QEEG-phenotypes workshop. 🎵 Recorded from a gas station after a storm knocked the power out. "At least you're not rubbing sticks together." — Jay 🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🎤 0:00 — Welcome: Jay Gunkelman + Dr. Mari Swingle👁️ 0:29 — Amygdala-consistent visual hypervigilance🧠 1:17 — Fast activity off the anterior cingulate + a deep left slow source⚡ 3:13 — Sympathetic trigger; parahippocampus + amygdala⏩ 4:11 — "30 Hz isn't the end of EEG" — look faster🎯 4:56 — Activity above 30, gone by 35 Hz — databases miss it🔵 5:15 — Over-arousal with beta spindling, left temporal🫥 8:33 — Anterior + posterior insula carry the content🔥 9:14 — Fight-or-flight trigger + anterior cingulate dysrhythmia⏱️ 10:57 — Niedermeyer's fast alpha (11–16 Hz)🛌 11:52 — Vertex activity, sputtering alpha: poor sleep⚖️ 12:11 — Fast alpha AND mixed fast/slow together✅ 14:37 — A great neurofeedback candidate — in the right order🧪 15:20 — The Scott protocol: pre-treatment first👴 16:35 — "Too fast" 12 Hz alpha🧬 17:29 — Family history of later-life neurological failure⛽ 18:12 — Recording from a gas station in a storm😟 18:36 — What did this kid come in with? Anxiety or OCD🥃 20:19 — Fast alpha and the slippery slope to alcohol🦋 21:21 — At 10, optimizing this brain changes a life🏫 22:20 — The kids who never get read: autism labels, meds❌ 23:17 — Why an SSRI is wrong here🧮 25:24 — Fast alpha = better memory (causal)🔧 28:25 — Not a broken brain — just needs a tune-up📚 29:31 — Joshua Moore: intro to QEEG phenotypes workshop📊 31:16 — 85% improvement pairing meds to a phenotype 🎵 NEW MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE:This week's NeuroNoodle Carnac turned into two original albums — now streaming on Spotify. 🎵 Just Needs a Tune-Up (lyric album)Lo-fi chillhop pulled from a 10-year-old's blind brain read — fast alpha running too hot, beta spindling nobody was looking for, and the line that says it all: this isn't a broken brain. 8 tracks. 👉 https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Rj0d... 🎵 Winding Down (meditation album)Eight alpha-theta instrumentals for the brain that can't settle — slow-alpha states, no vocals, no percussion, just the nervous system learning to come back down. 👉 https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Rj0d... 🔗 SHOW LINKS:Joshua Moore's qEEG Courses: https://www.qeegcourses.com/Dr. Mari Swingle's SwingleSonic apps (BrainCalm, Sleep, Focus): https://swinglesonic.com/Jay Gunkelman's Suisun Summit: https://courses.eegstrategies.com/Support NeuroNoodle on Patreon: / 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 brain. Press: pete@neuronoodle.com #NeuroNoodle #NeurofeedbackTherapyPodcast #JayGunkelman #PeteJansons #EEG #QEEG #BrainMapping #Neurofeedback #MentalHealth #ChildAnxiety #FastAlpha #BetaSpindling #AntiCingulate #Insula #ScottProtocol #PenistonProtocol #AlphaTheta #SMRTraining #SSRI #IndividualAlphaFrequency #BCIA #ThursdayCarnac #BrainBar #JoshuaMoore #qEEGPhenotypes #DrMariSwingle #LesFehmi #Niedermeyer #OverArousal
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  • Mind Drama: Why Your Brain Gets Stuck in Rumination | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

    Mind Drama: Why Your Brain Gets Stuck in Rumination | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast
    2026/06/11
    Bestselling science journalist Donna Jackson Nakazawa returns to NeuroNoodle for the first time since 2021 to break down her new book MIND DRAMA — the science of rumination, and why the human brain is excellent at getting INTO mind drama but was never taught how to get out. Jay Gunkelman, the man who has read well over 500,000 brain scans, and Dr. Mari Swingle (author of i-Minds) join host Pete Jansons to connect Donna's reporting to what they see in the EEG every week — locked rumination circuits, the default mode network, PTSD and dissociation, and why a fear of not belonging is the trigger hiding under almost all of it.✅ Key Topics Covered• Mind Drama — why your brain has great skills for entering rumination and none for exiting it• Donna's own brain map: the "locked circuit" that inspired the book• Rumination and adolescent girls — self-derogation, social media's "firehose of comparison," and rising teen mental health concerns• The real trigger: fear of belonging — performative childhoods and external evaluation from every adult• How chronic rumination affects the immune system and long-term physical health• PTSD, dissociation, and the default mode network — when the movie reel stops spinning• Where neurofeedback fits — and why Donna says "please go get neurofeedback"• Donna's book arc: Childhood Disrupted → The Angel and the Assassin → Girls on the Brink → Mind Drama🕐 Key Moments0:00 — Cold open [PENDING council pick]1:04 — Donna's last NeuroNoodle appearance (2021): • Donna Jackson Nakazawa Speaks about her bo... 2:11 — Thirty brains, one lesson — Pete's Rawthentic essay: https://petejansons.substack.com/p/th...[+ ADD remaining timestamps from edit notes before publish]✅ Updates & Links📕 Mind Drama by Donna Jackson Nakazawa — [BOOK LINK — verify before publish]🌐 Donna Jackson Nakazawa — https://donnajacksonnakazawa.com [verify]🎬 Donna on NeuroNoodle in 2021 (The Angel and the Assassin): • Donna Jackson Nakazawa Speaks about her bo... 📝 Pete's Rawthentic — Thirty Brains, One Lesson: https://petejansons.substack.com/p/th...🧠 Jay Gunkelman Suisun Summit — https://suisuncitysummit.com📱 Dr. Mari Swingle Apps — https://swinglesonic.com🎙️ School of Neurotherapy — https://www.schoolofneurotherapy.com/...🎵 Episode albums (Red Cyclops + Back to Presence) — [ADD DistroKid/streaming links when live]💪 Help keep NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast going!👉 Support on Patreon: / neuronoodle 🔔 Like, subscribe, share & hit the bell for weekly episodes📺 The Brain Bar — LIVE every Wednesday 6 PM CST | 4 PM PST | 7 PM EST#NeuroNoodle #NeurofeedbackTherapyPodcast #Neurofeedback #JayGunkelman#PeteJansons #DonnaJacksonNakazawa #MindDrama #Rumination #EEG #QEEG#BrainMapping #MentalHealth #BrainHealth #Neurotherapy #DrMariSwingle#DefaultModeNetwork #TeenMentalHealth #GirlsOnTheBrink #BrainBar#GodfatherOfQEEG
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  • You Can't Give Soup to the Whole Brain | Jay Gunkelman | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Podcast

    You Can't Give Soup to the Whole Brain | Jay Gunkelman | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Podcast
    2026/06/04
    Jay Gunkelman has read more than half a million brain scans. In this episode he and host Pete Jansons open a real before-and-after case and walk it frame by frame — eyes open and eyes closed, pre-treatment and post-treatment — so you can watch what changed. Going in: fast alpha racing at 11.5 Hz, 23 Hz beta spindling at the vertex driving insomnia, a slow edge of alpha buried in the left temporal lobe pointing at local ischemia and possible old head injury, and right-frontal beta carrying a depressive signature. Coming out: alpha stabilized toward 10 Hz, frontal beta down, left-temporal function dramatically improved. Then the bigger story — the refractory-psychiatry work Jay did with Ron Swatzyna and Nash Boutros, where roughly half of medication failures turned out to have a focal EEG biomarker that no pill could fix. As Jay puts it: you can't give soup to the whole brain. 👉 Watch the Brain Bar episode (5/27) where the panel reviewed this same brain: https://youtube.com/live/zyO22e5dl-w?... 🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🧠 0:00 — Jay opens the case: before and after, eyes open and eyes closed🗂️ 0:38 — Pulling the files: why we read eyes-open first🌊 1:37 — "That's a lot of fast activity" — beta everywhere, cleaned with ICA🏷️ 2:41 — Wernicke's area, or just the left temporal-parietal junction?🔆 5:00 — The spectra: irregular left-temporal alpha lost in fast activity⚡ 6:04 — 23 Hz beta spindling: hyperexcitable cortex🏃 6:50 — Fast alpha at 11.5 Hz, and it's localized🩸 7:11 — Slow edge of alpha left temporal: a hint of local ischemia🧩 7:49 — Left posterior delta: white matter, possible head injury🌗 8:14 — Right-frontal beta as a depressive signature; CZ beta as insomnia📜 9:27 — The Gibbs lab and the history of F1, F2, F3 beta🔀 11:02 — Two kinds of over-arousal: thalamocortical vs cortical🔁 11:34 — Eyes open, the follow-up: did anything change?📊 13:32 — Apples-to-apples: the alpha peak moves 11.5 → 10 Hz💪 16:29 — Real vs. "memorex": telling EMG from brain😬 18:09 — Muscle tone, SMR, and why worry lines form📉 19:11 — Dramatic left-temporal improvement; right-frontal beta drops😴 24:19 — Ischemia explained: idling fine, choking under load🫧 25:15 — Why hyperbaric works: oxygen cell-to-cell at two atmospheres🎚️ 26:00 — The training plan: SMR 12–15 Hz, CZ to left temporal🌀 29:11 — Orexin, the wakefulness drive, and the insomnia marker✅ 32:42 — The verdict: more stable alpha, less over-arousal🎮 38:44 — Whack-a-mole instead of a click test: gamified screening for kids🚫 41:03 — Don't pathologize kids — and why schools chase labels🔬 44:05 — The refractory-psychiatry study: a routine EEG that changes the plan🧪 45:43 — Four biomarkers that predict medication failure🥣 47:07 — "You can't give soup to the whole brain"📈 48:07 — Half of med failures had a focal slow feature🧠 51:21 — Autism, epileptiform activity, and the 85% anticonvulsant finding😪 52:17 — The theta/beta test that broke: kids sleep two hours less since 1999🛣️ 53:24 — Highway hypnosis and the drowsy classroom💸 54:25 — $32K a student and an architecture that's still off⚖️ 54:54 — The parity problem: $180 talk therapy vs $60 neurofeedback🧰 57:00 — Get a mental baseline the same way you get a physical🎓 57:54 — Joshua Moore previews his QEEG Phenotypes workshop💥 59:34 — 85% improvement pairing medication with phenotype 🎵 MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE:🎵 NeuroNoodle on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Rj0d... 🔗 SHOW LINKS:Joshua Moore's qEEG Courses: https://www.qeegcourses.com/Dr. Mari Swingle's SwingleSonic apps (BrainCalm, Sleep, Focus): https://swinglesonic.com/Jay Gunkelman's Suisun Summit: https://courses.eegstrategies.com/Support NeuroNoodle: / 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.
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  • The Cingulate Doesn't Sleep: Deeper Than Concussion | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

    The Cingulate Doesn't Sleep: Deeper Than Concussion | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast
    2026/05/28
    Jay Gunkelman goes in BLIND on Case 9 — an 18-year-old's eyes-open EEG, age only, no history. Joshua Moore bet his car on a left posterior concussion. Jay sees something deeper: a thalamocortical dysrhythmia at the anterior cingulate, slow and fast rhythms coupled together, beta spindling above 30 Hz that most databases can't even see. Left-side mu disconnect shutting down the language hemisphere. Posterior insula, left side. After half a million EEGs, Jay's verdict isn't a diagnosis — it's a phenotype that tells you how to treat it, not what to call it.👉 Watch the Brain Bar episode where Joshua reviewed this same EEG: https://www.youtube.com/live/ObtZPJiTUQY🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🪓 0:00 — Jay's wood chipper and the fingers a trencher took🧩 5:11 — Wait, this isn't Case 8: Jay thinks it's Case 9👁️ 6:05 — Eyes-open EEG, an 18-year-old, age is all Jay gets✂️ 6:30 — De-artifacting by hand: why ICA beats PCA🧠 8:31 — Frontal midline cingulate: slow and fast rhythmicity together🔌 9:56 — The mirror neuron turns off, mu kicks in on the left⚡ 10:44 — 35 Hz fast rhythmicity off the anterior cingulate😴 12:02 — Locked on or locked off: OCD, anhedonia, akinetic mutism🛌 13:49 — Bursts of alpha eyes-open: the hallmark of drowsiness🌀 15:15 — The mu isn't a sine wave: where Fourier harmonics lie🔭 17:50 — Stepping past 30 Hz: spindling beta we shouldn't see💊 18:28 — F1, F2, F3 beta: norepinephrine vs glutamate drivers🎯 20:28 — Spindling beta is cortical hyperexcitability🧶 21:13 — Sensory sensitivities: "how can you stand wearing wool?"🧠 22:04 — Jay's working theory: dysrhythmia at the anterior cingulate🔗 23:42 — Cross-frequency coupling: the only way to prove it👀 25:43 — Eyes closed: anteriorized alpha and the vigilance model🐕 27:35 — Field and phase: how Jay knows the rhythm is real🚗 34:03 — Joshua bet his car on a left posterior concussion🧭 35:34 — Breaking the EEG into components: hunting the generators🫀 37:23 — Posterior insula, left side: GI, vertigo, the visceral self🕸️ 38:56 — The salience network: cingulate plus both insula💥 39:25 — The anterior cingulate blush: the affective division lights up🧨 40:23 — Right anterior insula: the dissociative PTSD signature🩹 42:30 — Trauma or autism? Why Jay won't play the diagnosis game🧬 43:19 — Phenotypes predict treatment, not the DSM label💡 48:53 — Brain brightening: IAF+1 and the Salzburg memory studies📚 51:26 — Slow alpha is a library with no card catalog🍺 52:35 — Digital beer: make your own alpha🧠 53:07 — When you see mu, look up front: the frontal lobe is offline👩‍⚕️ 54:54 — A mom, a hit-and-run TBI, and an adult child at 18🏥 57:09 — Why an electroencephalographer beats a neurologist🎓 58:12 — BCIA and the QEEG Certification Board: where to send people🎤 1:01:33 — Joshua Moore's QEEG Phenotypes workshop preview📈 1:03:14 — 85% improvement: medication paired with phenotype🎵 MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE:🎶 Deeper Than the Concussion: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Rj0d...🎶 The Cingulate Doesn't Sleep: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Rj0d...🔗 SHOW LINKS:👉 Watch Joshua review this same brain on The Brain Bar: https://www.youtube.com/live/ObtZPJiTUQYJoshua Moore's qEEG Courses: https://www.qeegcourses.com/Dr. Mari Swingle's SwingleSonic apps (BrainCalm, Sleep, Focus): https://swinglesonic.com/Jay Gunkelman's Suisun Summit: https://courses.eegstrategies.com/Support NeuroNoodle: / 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.
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  • Alpha Stuck Open: When Eyes-Open Looks Like Eyes-Closed | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast

    Alpha Stuck Open: When Eyes-Open Looks Like Eyes-Closed | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Therapy Podcast
    2026/05/21
    Jay Gunkelman goes in BLIND on Case 8 — a 30-year-old whose eyes-open EEG looks like eyes-closed. Alpha at 150 microvolts. Widespread. Anteriorized. Not responding to eye opening. After half a million EEGs, Jay calls the phenotype on sight: vigilance regulation problem, not attention. Left-side mu disconnect. Right-parietal alpha persistence. Frontal alpha hyper-coherence climbing from 0.5 eyes-open to 0.6+ eyes-closed — affect regulation flag. Plus a treatment map more granular than the room expected: FC beta for salience activation, C3 for language, C4 for affect, C4-to-PZ for the parietal alpha that won't quit. And a history segment most listeners have never heard — the first transmitted EEG in 1974, phase-lock loops over voice-grade phone lines, Trudy and Eric Gibbs, Larry Wood's engineering. Stay for the inter-rater reliability number that should end the classical-EEG debate: 90% on phenotypes vs 30-40% on traditional reads.👉 Watch the Brain Bar episode where Joshua reviewed this same EEG: https://youtube.com/live/Fi5GxXcXByE?...🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🎙️ 0:00 — Cold open: Carnac, Ed McMahon, turbans🔬 2:35 — Case 8: 30-year-old, that's all Jay knows⚠️ 3:14 — Recording quality: 60Hz, EKG, bad impedances, why this matters🧲 4:27 — Find your 60Hz source: power blocks, chair transformers, tri-field meters📏 5:24 — Impedance standards: below 5,000 ohms, balanced ±1👁️ 5:45 — Eyes-open EEG, 150 microvolts of alpha, widespread🧠 8:37 — Anterior cingulate, mu rhythm history: Gasto, Adrian-Matthews, Gibbs-Lennox🇩🇪 9:25 — Erna Gibbs translated Berger from German — Harvard's lab origin story😴 10:14 — Vigilance model: A1, A2, A3 — alpha anteriorizes as you fade🎯 11:27 — Open focus: Les Fehmi, Princeton, couples therapy alpha🚫 13:29 — No lambda, no visual focus — alpha not responding to eye opening🪞 14:21 — Left-side mu: mirror neuron disconnect for language, Wernicke's loop💤 16:00 — Anteriorized alpha + slowing = drifting toward drowsy⚡ 18:45 — Central beta: reticular activation driving wakefulness, barely📊 22:00 — Power vs magnitude vs amplitude — Jay teaches the math📈 23:22 — Peak at 10.25 Hz, harmonic at 20.5, faster bright alpha🔗 24:38 — Coherence at 0.5+ eyes-open: the rule-of-thumb thumb-cutting💔 25:34 — Frontal alpha hyper-coherence climbs to 0.6+ eyes-closed = affect flag😶 26:08 — Bright but not processing properly🪞 27:17 — Eyes-closed confirms: mu left-dominant, language hemisphere disconnect🎯 31:00 — Treatment map: FC beta, C3 language, C4 affect, C4-PZ persistent alpha⚖️ 33:00 — Why you balance inhibition with activation — groggy vs giddy📡 36:00 — Joshua's PTSD-trauma-neuromarker question: where Jay lands📊 38:00 — Inter-rater reliability: phenotype 90% vs classical EEG 30-40%📜 40:00 — DSM-1 through DSM-5 + EEG history: Jay's November Santa Barbara talk💊 42:00 — 85% psychiatric improvement on anticonvulsants for epileptiform EEGs📞 44:00 — The first transmitted EEG: 1974, Trudy and Eric Gibbs, Michigan Avenue🔧 47:00 — Larry Wood, phase-lock loops, voice-grade phone lines, 8 channels🎓 50:00 — How "diagnostic specificity ruined EEG" — billing codes vs predictive validity🪪 52:00 — Coherence-by-eye confession: Joshua's gotcha, Jay's "true"🎤 54:00 — Mic drop, Anita, dogs, weekend🧠 55:00 — Joshua Moore: QEEG Phenotypes intro workshop preview🎵 MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE:🎶 You Cut Off The Thumb: https://open.spotify.com/album/25ofVa...🎶 ATTENUATE: https://open.spotify.com/album/1Egxcx...🔗 SHOW LINKS:👉 Watch the Brain Bar episode where Joshua reviewed this same EEG: https://youtube.com/live/Fi5GxXcXByE?...Joshua Moore's qEEG Courses: https://www.qeegcourses.com/Dr. Mari Swingle's SwingleSonic apps (BrainCalm, Sleep, Focus): https://swinglesonic.com/Jay Gunkelman's Suisun Summit: https://courses.eegstrategies.com/col...Support NeuroNoodle: / @neuronoodle
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