🎙️ Insomnia, Restless Leg Syndrome & ADHD Sleep Links | 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. Special guests Joshua Moore and Anthony Ramos join in for a deep-dive Q&A.

✅ Topic 1 Explained: Jay breaks down the critical links between insomnia and ADHD, highlighting how delayed circadian rhythms and underarousal phenotypes impact life satisfaction and school performance.
✅ Topic 2 Deep Dive: Restless Leg Syndrome as an ADHD mimic—Jay explains its dopamine and beta spindle connections, EMG detection methods, and neurofeedback treatment options.
✅ Topic 3 Insights: How psychiatric meds, especially antipsychotics and benzos, can impact EEGs, neuroplasticity, and long-term cognitive outcomes—plus safer treatment alternatives.

✅ Additional Topics:
🎯 EEG artifacts and the myth of “poor man’s coherence”
💪 Post-acute benzo withdrawal syndrome and neurofeedback’s role
💡 How to talk to psychiatrists about QEEG-based treatment
📻 Jay’s origin story with Mayo Clinic’s early EEG experiments
😴 Sleep phenotypes: from narcolepsy-mimics to delayed phase disorder
🖐️ Why neurofeedback can reduce or eliminate Adderall and antipsychotics
📅 October 8–11 Suisun City Summit—Gunkelman’s Island Theme

🕒 Key Moments (spell-checked):
0:00 Welcome and Jay’s monacle tale
5:05 Poor man’s coherence vs. sequential training
11:00 ADHD, insomnia, and vigilance problems
13:00 Jay explains sleep phenotypes in ADHD
19:00 Restless leg syndrome, dopamine, and neurofeedback
25:00 Buspar and alternative anxiolytics
30:00 EEG-informed psychiatric decisions
36:00 Why linked-ear references distort coherence
40:00 Antipsychotics + TBI = dangerous EEG outcomes
46:00 Neurofeedback reduces need for Adderall and Seroquel
51:00 Why benzos are so hard to quit
59:00 Biometallic electrode artifacts
1:02:00 Mayo Clinic’s accidental EEG tumor localization
1:03:00 Naso-pharyngeal electrodes and bad EEG ideas
1:07:00 Final thanks and community shoutouts

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