Panic can hit like a lightning strike: your heart races, your chest tightens, and your mind starts bargaining with the worst-case scenario. Today we take that terrifying experience seriously and look at it through a brain-based lens, because “just calm down” is useless advice when your nervous system is convinced you’re in danger.

I’m joined by Dr. Tiffany Thompson, founder and CEO of NeuroField Neurotherapy and the School of Neurotherapy, to talk about what clinicians sometimes see in EEG and brain mapping with panic disorders. We unpack spikes and polyspikes as a kind of flickering, unstable brain discharge that can trigger a sudden wave of dread and kick the sympathetic nervous system into overdrive. If you’ve ever wondered why panic attacks can mimic a heart attack and why so many people end up in the ER, we connect the dots between the brain signal, the body response, and the fear loop that follows.

We also get practical about neurotherapy and neurostimulation: how stabilization protocols may reduce that instability, why some clients notice changes quickly, and why Dr. Thompson says she’d run a panic clinic if she could pick only one specialty. You’ll hear a powerful case story of a 40-year-old father of three who reports being “super chill” after his first session, plus a surprising ripple effect Dr. Heather Putney has seen in practice: less road rage after an intensive, hinting at broader emotional regulation.

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To learn more about NeuroField Neurotherapy, Inc. visit: https://www.neurofieldneurotherapy.com/tiff-thompson

To learn more about Transformative Neurotherapy visit:
https://www.TransformativeNeurotherapy.org
Transformative Neurotherapy
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