New year, new protocol. C4. No, not the explosive kind, but the electrode to the right of CZ — mid brain — and over my right ear and I think a bit forward of it. And with C4 no more gamma. We’re now training 13-16Hz — SMR with a hint of problem solving. And we’re…
Category: Brain Power
Musings on what makes for a powerful brain. This category also includes the sub-category Brain Health, which covers all things related to brain injury.
The Unconscious Mind in an Injured Brain
TVO devoted a week of primetime programming to Mysteries of the Mind. And The Agenda, hosted by Steve Paikin, featured a different brain-focused topic each evening as introduced by Dr. Norman Doidge, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Toronto and author of The Brain That Changes Itself. One of TVO’s multi-part documentaries was on the unconscious…
Affect, Trauma, Anniversary Week of a Brain Injury
Affect can be a fickle mistress. When affect works as it should, we are unaware of its role. We laugh, we cry, we snort, we sigh, we get serious, and we devolve into silliness. And we do it all as normal responses to the vagaries of life. But woe to your affect when you suffer…
175 Hours and Counting for Brain Biofeedback
I’ve done 175 hours of brain biofeedback, 84 in my first 2 years and 91 in the last 1.5 years for gamma training. (Fewer hours first time around because I missed summers and I became quite ill in the first 3 months of 2007, probably because I’d pushed myself too hard, a horrid time I’d…
Pills are Not the Only Modality of Treating the Brain
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how the medical system treats the “mental illness” aspect of brain injury, that is, moods, thinking styles, that sort of thing. I’ve never been put on drugs for depression or concentration problems, but I know others who have, and my neurodoc has talked to me several times about…
Gamma Re-Assessment Day
Twas a mini re-assessment day. My trainer took 3-minute readings at each of FZ, C4, and PZ. FZ is dead centre at the front of my head and is related to action, executive function. PZ is at the back of the top of my head, dead centre, and is the area we’re training. C4 is…
The Essence of Gamma Brainwaves is the Person
I heard the ADD Centre are doing gamma training on a second person now. Cool. The bouncy, perception-opening feeling of these tiny, essential brainwaves will be spread to others. Gamma brainwave enhancement doesn’t always get me all Tigger-ish, but I rarely leave feeling the same level of stress, level of perception, level of thinking as…
Something Different in Gamma Brainwave Biofeedback
“Can I videotape my brainwaves?” I asked my trainer. “Sure!” she said, and I handed her my iPhone, gleeful thoughts of finally getting to play with iMovie dancing in my head. I’ve been in a bit of a blogging funk lately. At the same time, I’ve told lots of people about the neurofeedback I do,…
Heart Beats What the Heart Wants
I give up. I think: yes, Houston, we have a solution! This one will bring my heart rate down permanently. This is it! And then my heart goes, bwahahahahaha!!! Sigh. Heart rate is back up in to the 120s, with a touch of bradycardia this week. With writing and reading after four super-gamma-producing HRV and…