Conference Topics

Presented by: Tiff Thompson

This presentation will focus on the king of brainwaves, alpha, that 8-12Hz sinusoidal rhythm that cheats its frequency parameters, unlike any other bandwidth. This rhythm is much more than meets the eye.

Presented by: Dirk DeRidder

Thalamocortical dysrhythmia is a unifying pathophysiological mechanism that defines multiple clinical disorders such as chronic pain, tinnitus, Parkinson's disease, depression and epilepsy, but also noted in ADHD, schizophrenia and OCD. It is characterized by a slowing of thalamocortical resting state alpha activity to theta frequencies.

Presented by: Ron Swatzyna

“Almost every human being who has experienced love and romance would agree that love is as much about joy as it is about anguish. Indeed, while romantic passion induces indescribable feelings of euphoria and tenderness when one’s love is returned, it can also trigger feelings of debilitating anxiety, despair and even rage when one’s love is not reciprocated.

Presented by: Laura Childers

This presentation will look at the mirror neuron network and extended neuron network as a way to improve empathy in couples and families who struggle with trauma and addiction. Evidenced based information will be presented to understand how trauma and addiction can disconnect pathways that allow for empathy.

Presented by: David Reynolds

The affective change in EEG, recorded before, after, and in real time, with Vectored Inertial Pelvic Mobilization (VIPM) will be presented in the context of Force and Frequency data profiles for the VIPM. The EEG data will be presented and discussed as a novel frontier for eliciting positive poly vagal modulation and regulation of sympathetic extensor muscle tone.

Presented by: Jay Gattis

Get the inside scoop on SPECT scans. Holding the benefits of a QEEG as a given, what does SPECT offer us? I'll explain in monotone how a SPECT is performed, what it is measuring, how the results are processed and presented, and what we know about how that relates to QEEG findings. I'll likely get passionate about the strengths and weaknesses of each neuroimaging methodology and their respective use cases.

Presented by: Jonathan Schooler

Subjective experience is typically conceptualized as a monologue, and yet it is commonplace to experience conflicting thoughts. In our model of consciousness, we assert that the mind is a dialogue, or debate, between different desires and unique interpretations of events.

Presented by: Yuri Kropotov

The lecture updates the attendees on the current state of the art in clinical applications of Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). Recent studies of the functional meaning of ERP components (MMN, P300, ERN, P3 NOGO) and their application for diagnosis and prognosis in clinical neuroscience are reviewed.

Presented by: Alan Macy

A story that starts with beauty and weaves its definition with emotional feeling, taste, the galvanic cell, electrophysiology, and the telephone. Lambert’s, Hume’s and Sulzer’s ideas about taste, pleasure and beauty have contributed to the origins of psychophysiological thought, and to the origins of electrophysiology. Methods developed by Galvani and Volta establish basis for the fields of electrophysiology and electrical telecommunications.

Presented by: Nick Dogris

Vagus nerve stimulation paired with tACS and tDCS cranial electrostimulation appears to impact heart rate variability and EEG positively in first responder populations (paramedics, nurses, EMTs, law enforcement, firefighters, and MDs).

Presented by: James Croall

Many great thinkers have asserted that love is the greatest force in the universe, the power that "makes the world a universe and the disintegrated mass a community." But what is it? Can we find it in the brain?

Presented by: Arnaud DeLorme

Arnaud Delorme will rst present recent research on connectivity analysis in EEG and the ROIconnect plugin of EEGLAB, which allow computing connectivity between regions of interest or independent components. Connectivity measures will involve granger causality and its derivative.

Presented by: Selen Atasoy

Harmonic patterns are ubiquitous in nature emerging in acoustics, optics, and electromagnetism as well as in biological processes such as morphogenesis. My research demonstrated that brain activity in awake, resting state is also follows stable harmonic wave patterns emerging on the anatomical connectivity of the human brain.

Presented by: Siegfied Othmer

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Presented by: Makoto Miyakoshi
Since the publication of the seminal work by Canolty et al. (2006), cross-frequency coupling analyses have become a part of standard practice in EEG analysis. During this lecture, I will first review physiological mechanism of the cross-frequency coupling phenomena, and review various types of its manifestation.

Presented by: Mary Tracy and Ron Swatzyna

The sole reason that an individual would normally receive a referral to a hospital or a neurologist for epilepsy screening is if they have had a motor seizure. However, it is not uncommon for qEEG professionals to detect isolated (silent) epileptiform discharges during routine EEG assessments in the absence of a history of motor seizures.

Presented by: John Lemay

This session is intended for clinicians at all levels, and is focused on the interpretation of the ERP data output through the lens of attention cycle. The ERP will be linked to behavioral characteristics.

Presented by: Jay Gunkelman

Paroxysms and epileptiform activity are obviously seen in epilepsy, and can be treated effectively with neurofeedback.  The incidence of unexpected discharges in clinical cases without epilepsy is really quite surprising to those not familiar with the literature, where 20% or ADHD and 40-60% of autistics have classical discharges.