🎙️ Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia & the Vagus Nerve | NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Podcast

Join Jay Gunkelman, QEEGD (the man who has analyzed over 500,000 brain scans), and host Pete Jansons for another engaging NeuroNoodle Neurofeedback Podcast episode discussing neuroscience, psychology, mental health, and brain training.

✅ Topic 1 Explained: Pain and the Brain
Jay breaks down the neurophysiology of pain—exploring the role of the posterior insula, anterior cingulate, and homuncular representations in GI, muscular, and chronic pain perception.

✅ Topic 2 Deep Dive: Neurofeedback & Fibromyalgia
Jay explains how muscle tone, sympathetic dominance, and neurofeedback techniques like HRV and slow cortical potentials can reduce fibromyalgia pain and muscle trigger points.

✅ Topic 3 Insights: Vagus Nerve Modulation & Red Light Therapy
The vagus nerve takes center stage as Jay discusses parasympathetic control, TMS heart-rate deceleration, and how photobiomodulation can help manage migraines and post-traumatic ischemia.

✅ Additional Topics:
🎯 Slow Cortical Potentials for Pain Suppression
💪 Chronic Muscle Tension & Sympathetic Tone
💡 Red Light Therapy vs. Photobiomodulation
📻 Biofeedback Tech History (Offner amp, DC to 100 Hz)
😴 SMR Sleep Spindles for Pain-Disrupted Sleep
🖐️ Jay’s Personal Experience With Finger Amputation Pain Modulation
📅 Updates on the Suisun City Neuroscience Summit (October 8–11)

🕒 Key Moments:
0:00 Welcome
1:26 Pain, Gut, and Neurofeedback questions from Q&A show https://youtube.com/live/cyzzYFEcuzk?...
4:30 Abdominal Epilepsy
6:40 Farfield Phase Reversal
9:25 IAB Book on Efficacy
9:49 How Can Neurofeedback Help With Pain? Which Pain?
10:30 Jay Co-authored Book on Pain
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/...
12:20 Approaches to Dealing With Pain
14:15 Intention/Attention Needs to Be Controlled
17:29 Stopping Severe Pain With Neurofeedback
18:00 Anterior Cingulate and Pain & Suffering Network
23:00 Is It More About Stopping the Pain or the Attention to It?
27:55 Night Pain and Using Neurofeedback to Help Sleep
29:20 Vagus Nerve and Neurofeedback
33:10 Potentiating Function With EMF
41:10 Fibromyalgia and Neurofeedback
43:30 Muscle Tension Tone Training
46:30 Red Light Therapy / Photobiomodulation and Pain
49:30 Suisun Neurofeedback Summit
https://eegstrategies.com/suisun-summ...

✅ Event & App Updates:

Dr. Mari Swingle's Apps & Info: https://swinglesonic.com
Jay Gunkelman's Events & Info: https://suisuncitysummit.com
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