NeuroNoodle Network Podcast: Neurofeedback & Wellness Podcast

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.

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.

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  

What actually happens during a panic attack?In this throwback NeuroNoodle live Q&A, Jay Gunkelman, Joy Lunt, John McCormick, and Anthony Ramos dive into panic attacks, neurofeedback, PTSD, TBI recovery, brain fog after surgery, vagus nerve stimulation, and the hidden neurological patterns behind anxiety.One of the most talked-about moments:Joy Lunt explains how she stopped a patient’s panic attack in about 9 minutes using neurofeedback training.🧠 Topics covered:• Panic attacks & the amygdala• Neurofeedback vs Lexapro/Xanax• PTSD & TBI recovery• Brain fog after anesthesia• Why some panic disorders involve epileptiform activity• Vagus nerve stimulation• Home neurofeedback devices• The difference between “training” and “treatment”⏱️ Jump straight in:0:24 – Panic attack discussion starts18:29 – Coma recovery discussion23:35 – Walter Reed / PTSD discussion25:41 – Panic disorders & epileptiform activity30:07 – “It’s not a character flaw — it’s brain circuits”Throwback Thursday from the early NeuroNoodle live Q&A days.#Neurofeedback #PanicAttacks #MentalHealth

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 night before. Two recordings, two months apart, unknown treatment in between.

Jay's read: low voltage slow, diffuse encephalopathy, salience network packed with delta, right anterior insula involvement, cardio-ballistic screaming Pickwickian sleep apnea. The kicker? When Joshua revealed the case on Brain Bar, the patient HAS a confirmed sleep apnea diagnosis. Jay called it from the waveform alone.

The full reveal: live-in-nurse-revoked patient who regained dressing, feeding, and recognition. OSHA reached out asking what they did. Jay's verdict: god awful to terrible. That's the line.

👉 Watch the Brain Bar where Joshua reviewed this same brain: https://youtu.be/YaRLfVhbn3I

🧠 WHAT WE COVER:

🎙️ 0:00 — Welcome to Thursday Carnac

🐕 0:24 — Sky the dog and EEG chasing

🔍 1:04 — Jay opens files: holy cry, these are awful

📋 1:45 — How Carnac works: cold read, no hints

💬 2:37 — Brain Bar recap

🎯 3:22 — 58yo female, two months between

⚡ 4:01 — No alpha, slow content both sides

🧪 4:35 — Tiny EEG at max sensitivity

💥 5:21 — FZ-CZ paroxysm

😴 5:45 — Anterior alpha burst, drowsiness

❤️ 6:48 — Cardio-ballistic: short stocky build

🫁 7:30 — Pickwickian setup

🌫️ 8:39 — Peering through artifact

📉 9:17 — Low voltage slow encephalopathy

⚠️ 10:05 — C4 wicket spikes (mu rhythm)

🌐 10:46 — F7-FZ out of phase: right insula

☣️ 11:26 — Toxic or metabolic

📊 12:00 — Spectra confirms no alpha

🧠 12:56 — Diffuse encephalopathy types

🩺 13:27 — Post-toxic vs post-traumatic

🤚 14:21 — EMG tremor at 5 Hz

💪 15:08 — Biphasic spikes are muscle

🔄 16:40 — Two months, EEG not better

👁️ 16:52 — Eyes closed, out of phase

🪞 18:11 — Mu at C4: mirror neuron disconnect

⏯️ 24:13 — The reveal: case got better

🛏️ 24:35 — Nurse revoked, function returned

📈 24:50 — Front midline improved

🎯 26:33 — Source localization

🎨 27:39 — 36% variance off cingulate

🧭 29:12 — Salience network lit up

🆘 31:22 — Right insula trauma signature

💡 33:27 — Protocol: terrible to fair?

🎚️ 34:04 — C4-PZ SMR brain brightening

🧘 34:52 — 15-18 Hz frontal midline beta

😵 37:48 — Pickwickian hypoxia nightly

☠️ 39:14 — Hypoxia, edema, glutamate, cell death

🏥 42:32 — Barbiturate coma protection

🧊 44:11 — Slow edge of alpha = ischemia

🔍 44:23 — Periventricular white matter

🎤 46:19 — God awful to terrible

👋 46:45 — Brain Bar Wed, Carnac Thu

🎓 49:15 — Joshua Moore qEEG Phenotypes

💊 50:52 — 85% improvement with phenotype

📈 51:25 — Better predictive power

🎵 MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE:

🎵 God Awful to Terrible (lyric album): https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Rj0dKUYadn23cAzrxKr4A

🎵 The Slow Edge of Alpha (meditation album): https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Rj0dKUYadn23cAzrxKr4A

🔗 SHOW LINKS:

👉 The Brain Bar (Joshua's live read): https://youtu.be/YaRLfVhbn3I

qEEG Courses: https://www.qeegcourses.com/

SwingleSonic apps: https://swinglesonic.com/

Suisun Summit: https://courses.eegstrategies.com/col...

Patreon: 🅟 / neuronoodle

🧠 ABOUT THE SHOW:

Wednesdays 6PM Central — The Brain Bar LIVE on StreamYard. Joshua Moore presents an anonymized EEG, panel reads it live.

Thursdays — Carnac: Jay Gunkelman blind cold-reads the same brain.

#NeuroNoodle #NeurofeedbackTherapyPodcast #JayGunkelman #PeteJansons #EEG #QEEG #BrainMapping #Neurofeedback #MentalHealth #SalienceNetwork #PickwickianApnea #LowVoltageSlow #BrainBar #ThursdayCarnac #JoshuaMoore

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

Jay Gunkelman goes in BLIND — no age, no report, no diagnosis. Just the EEG that Joshua Moore reviewed live with the panel on The Brain Bar, Wednesday April 8th. The next day on Thursday Carnac, Jay cold-reads the same brain and not only finds what Joshua found — he catches the left insula in eyes open that Joshua wasn't sure anyone could catch. After half a million EEGs, the patterns reach out and grab you. Dr. Mari Swingle joins at the end with a stunning update from her presentation Serenading the Muse — alpha theta training for elite composers and why disconnecting the frontal lobe is sometimes exactly what the brain needs. 👉 Watch the Brain Bar episode where Joshua reviewed this same EEG:https://www.youtube.com/live/wBi2JP3b... 🧠 WHAT WE COVER:🔬 1:08 — Jay explains why he reads blind: no diagnosis, no report, just the EEG🌀 7:42 — Far field phase reversal identified: in phase, in phase, out of phase🧩 9:27 — The insula on the left: sympathetic hub, anxiety, dysautonomia🎨 10:11 — Jay draws really bad art to explain deep brain sourcing⚡ 14:26 — Epileptiform spike activity found — what it means and what it doesn't🧬 15:56 — Epileptiform is not a seizure: personality change, impulse, pseudobulbar affect💊 19:54 — 85% of psychiatric patients with epileptiform content improve on anticonvulsants👦 20:35 — Dr. Mari: defiance disorder in kids — look at the EEG first🧲 23:55 — We are not looking for the fuzz — we are looking for the freaking magnet👁️ 26:23 — Eyes closed: default mode network, phase lock, frontal coherence🔁 31:07 — Eyes open vs eyes closed: which one tells the real story?😤 33:35 — Pseudobulbar affect: fits of rage driven by epileptiform discharge🪓 34:04 — Middle Ages epilepsy treatment: a cudgel and unconsciousness🤝 38:38 — Secondary bilateral synchrony: the bad side recruits the good side🧪 39:30 — Neurofeedback vs brain surgery: bad side gets better vs bad side gone🎾 40:00 — Isabella the tennis player: why cutting her temporal lobe would have ended her game✅ 43:22 — Jay and Joshua corroborate: right frontal, left insula, bilateral temporal🎵 52:06 — Dr. Mari Swingle: Serenading the Muse — alpha theta for elite artists🎹 52:34 — Disconnect the front to enter supreme creative states🙏 53:06 — Hearing God — left parietal alpha and the composer's mind🎓 54:06 — Conservatoire of Music London: alpha theta training results were dramatic📱 56:04 — SwingleSonic.com: BrainCalm, Focus, Sleep apps🪙 57:10 — Sassoon Summit October 2026 — CE credits included, world-famous guitarist on Pizza Night🎵 59:09 — NeuroNoodle music on Spotify: episode albums and alpha theta clinical tracks 🎵 MUSIC FROM THIS EPISODE:🎶 Serenading the Muse: https://open.spotify.com/album/2DQ8Wr...🎶 The Insula Speaks: https://open.spotify.com/album/0z0GBG... 🔗 SHOW LINKS:👉 Watch Joshua review this same brain on The Brain Bar 4/8/26: https://www.youtube.com/live/wBi2JP3b...SwingleSonic.com — Dr. Mari Swingle apps: BrainCalm, Focus, SleepSassoon Summit 2026: https://courses.eegstrategies.com/cou...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.#NeuroNoodle #NeurofeedbackTherapyPodcast #JayGunkelman #PeteJansons #EEG #QEEG #BrainMapping #Neurofeedback #MentalHealth #BrainHealth #Neurotherapy #EpileptiformActivity #FarFieldPhaseReversal #Insula #AlphaTheta #BrainBar #DrMariSwingle #SerenatingTheMuse #BlindRead #PseudoBulbarAffect #SalienceNetwork

On April 1st, Joshua Moore brought an anonymized EEG to the Brain Bar. The panel read it live. Then they sent it to Jay Gunkelman — blind. He had no idea what they said. This is what Jay found. Beta spindling at CZ. A wakefulness drive that makes sleep nearly impossible. PTSD signals hiding in the right temporal lobe. Dissociative patterns in the anterior insula. Dr. Michael Cohen, author of The Mind Rewired, joins live to watch Jay work — and connects every finding to 25 real stories of people who changed their brains and changed their lives. 🧠 Panel: Jay Gunkelman (500K+ brain scans), Dr. Michael Cohen (Center for Brain Training), Pete Jansons (host)📺 Watch the Brain Bar read this EEG first: https://youtube.com/live/YJk6skHP9WA?... 🎯 What You'll Learn:🔬 Why beta spindling at CZ is a wakefulness drive that makes sleep nearly impossible🧬 How the salience network becomes a distress network — and what that means for trauma😰 Why "it's all in your head" is actually true — and how the EEG proves it📖 Why Cohen wrote The Mind Rewired without the word "neurofeedback" in the title🤖 Why AI currently earns a C-minus on EEG interpretation💤 How SMR, HRV, and alpha-theta work together to crack chronic insomnia🪖 Why Jay woke up 27 of 33 comatose soldiers — and why he stopped ⏱️ Timestamps / Key Moments:🧠 0:00 Intro — Jay gets recognized by the QEEG board🪖 2:12 27 out of 33 soldiers brought back from coma — and why Jay stopped🎙️ 5:01 Setting the table — Jay reads the Brain Bar's EEG blind, Cohen joins⚡ 6:23 Beta spindling spotted immediately — eyes open EEG read begins💤 10:41 CZ beta = wakefulness drive = can't sleep, can't stay asleep🧠 13:25 Beta spindling + fast alpha — stood in the wrong line twice😰 33:29 Anterior insula right side — dissociative PTSD signal found📖 38:38 Why Cohen wrote The Mind Rewired without "neurofeedback" in the title😭 41:11 "It's in your head — and it IS in your head" — patients cry when they see the EEG🤖 55:25 AI gets a C-minus on EEG reads — what it's missing📚 57:26 The Mind Rewired on Amazon — $2.95 Kindle, 900 books in 2 months💊 59:46 Jay's protocol: SMR → HRV → alpha-theta — how to fix this specific brain🌬️ 1:02:46 Breathing, carbon dioxide, and the EEG — the carbohaler explained 🔗 Updates & Links:📺 Watch the Brain Bar read this EEG first (4/1/26): https://youtube.com/live/YJk6skHP9WA?...📖 The Mind Rewired by Dr. Michael Cohen (Amazon Kindle $2.95): https://a.co/d/0iIF0p4C🏢 Center for Brain Training — Dr. Michael Cohen: https://www.centerforbrain.com/about/...🎵 The Mind Rewired (Album): https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Rj0d...🎵 Beta Spindle Release (Album): https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Rj0d...🎙️ Jay Gunkelman — Suisun Summit: https://suisuncitysummit.com🏫 School of Neurotherapy: https://www.schoolofneurotherapy.com/... 🤝 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 #EEG #QEEG #BrainMapping #MentalHealth #BrainHealth #Neurotherapy #MichaelCohen #TheMindRewired #BetaSpindling #Insomnia #PTSD #Trauma #Anxiety #Autism #BrainTraining #NeurofeedbackForSleep

Joy Lunt drops a bombshell — the neurofeedback field has never done a single head to head comparison of its own approaches.

"Our field has never in any way shape or form done any head to head comparison."

So what kind of neurofeedback are you actually getting?

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