Neurofeedback Podcast: Jay Gunkelman on Withdrawal & Anxiety 🧠

Join us for an insightful Neurofeedback Podcast episode featuring Jay Gunkelman, QEEGD, and Pete Jansons. This discussion covers how neurofeedback can help manage withdrawal symptoms, anxiety, and addiction recovery. Learn about the science behind EEG-based brain training and its role in mental health treatment.

📅 Topics Discussed:
Withdrawal Symptoms: From brain zaps to seizures
Anxiety Treatments: Neurofeedback vs. benzodiazepines vs. SSRIs
EEG Insights: Diagnosing and treating addiction
Tailored Neurofeedback for Brain Phenotypes

Key Moments:
0:00
0:49 Q/A Chat from night before clip https://youtube.com/live/nQUvjpWaqMY
1:04 Insula
1:44 Dissociation and PTSD
3:45 Article on why it is hard to get a diagnosis https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/th...
7:36 Testing in psychiatry
9:00 EEG and QEEG Testing Endophenotypes
10:09 Only one kind of OCD listed in DSM 5
10:23 Withdrawals from SSRIs and Brain Zaps https://www.health.com/condition/depr....
10:35 Anxiety - Panic Attacks - SSRIs - Withdrawal
10:50 10% of anxiety disorders have epileptiform discharges
13:50 If they are really anxious, you will see lambda
14:00 If you close your eyes and have anxiety or PTSD, you will have right temporal dysregulation Alpha Peak, which is a flag for social perception
15:55 Quickest fix: Benzos? What’s the downside of benzodiazepines?
18:30 If a drug works quickly, does that mean it is more likely to be addicting than not?
22:23 Alcohol Withdrawal DTs
26:07 Alcoholics and Alpha Training with neurofeedback
26:37 Panic attack strategies
27:14 You can look at the raw EEG data to determine if medicine will work
27:57 Alpha over 10 Hertz issues with SSRIs
28:31 Over 10 Hertz older medicine reactions
30:46 Opioid Withdrawal
31:33 Martijn Arns EEG alpha asymmetry as a gender-specific predictor of outcome to acute treatment with different antidepressant medications in the randomized iSPOT-D study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26189...
32:32 Can Neurofeedback help with withdrawal symptoms
34:00 Q/A Chat from night before clip https://youtube.com/live/nQUvjpWaqMY

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