Alan Bachers, Ph.D..ppt

Alan Bachers, Ph.D. NEUROFEEDBACK NEUROFEEDBACK A training system in which brain wave activity, obtained by sensors on the scalp, is presented to an individual as a video display. When brain activity moves toward patterns of improved self-regulation, the display (often a video game) advances, slowing or stopping as brain activity regresses.  Well described patterns of optimal brain function are cultivated over sessions, accompanied by automatic diminution or elimination of pathology as the brain orchestrates its own improvements. Results are at least long-lasting, often permanent, and continue to advance after training. Pathology or Disease Computationally Reducible abnormal firing patterns of brainwaves diagnose known disease states – epilepsy, depression, ADHD, brain injury, etc. “Attractor spaces” of disease originate through genetics, environmental, or experiential causes, occupy 16% of our Gross Domestic Product, and can be seen as Class 1,2,3 states. Pathology (cont.) Class 1,2,3 states – 1. Die out (or host dies); 2. Endlessly repeat; 3. Form patterns within patterns. These “stand still,” can be manipulated, numbers for which are standard Old Kind of Science. Some Class 1,2,3 applications of neurofeedback Alcoholism/addiction Anxiety/panic Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder Attachment disorder Autism Brain injury Depression Epilepsy Parkinson’s disease Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder While the field struggles to establish its scientific credibility in the disease model, those [Class 1,2 3] applications will become trivial as far more compelling results emerge in all areas of maximizing human capacities. Producing Class Four Space Central nervous system (CNS) in a loop with itself in NF training gets to observe the initial condition of pathologic variation, which, if sufficiently large, interrupts feedback. Shifting attention to restart feedback terminates capture by pathologic attractor, creates new iteration, free of that particular attra