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Buddhist psychology provides an effective way to truly understand what actually happens during neurofeedback training.
This one day introduction will get you up and running in NeuroCARE Pro v1.95. Here is where you can learn what you need to know to use this comprehensive, yet easy to use, neurofeedback training system.
The CARE® orientation remains unique. Approaching the task of neurofeedback as a form of “cross aerobic” training for the CNS, it is based on a fundamental understanding of how to promote both resilience and flexibility, while minimizing turbulence and instability. This panel will present the work of a number of practitioners who are using the CARE® approach in their practices and other applied settings. Some areas of application that will be covered include: Co-presented by Molly Raaymakers
Elegant traiing relies on the intrinsic self-organinzing nature of both consciousness and the central nervous system – this presentation will explore these ideas and describe the overall framework of awakening boddhicitta and non-duality based psychology within which neurofeedback training finds a real foundation. NLD tools can provide effective, easy to use tools to understand how well neurofeedback training is progressing, regardless of how it is done. Two such tools are presented and explored with data. ZenX Modes are a new feature in NeuroCARE Pro v1.95. They allow for a very simple user interface to the complex targeting process underlying the CARE approach to neurofeedback.
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Plenary #40): Awakening Bodhicitta: A Fundamental Framework For Understanding the Transformative Potential of Neurofeedback Buddhist psychology is both ancient and profound, but it can also seem quite alien to the Western mind. Having developed over the last two thousand years in many different cultures and religious context, it has spawned both practical means for transforming suffering and elegant philosophical statements -- many of which have been appropriated as contemporary psychological techniques. Using the insights and ideas developed through applied Buddhist practice, we understand the practice of neurofeedback training in a new -- and also ancient -- way. From this perspective we can understand how a very modern technology can bring to life a very ancient and well developed path to personal transformation and resolution of suffering. Contemporary research has demonstrated that traditional meditation practices for awakening compassion can be understood in terms of shifts in time-frequency gradients in the EEG. Concurrent advances in both applied Joint Time-Frequency Analysis (JTFA) and Non-Linear, Dynamical (NLD) Control Theory have revealed that detectable turbulence precedes catastrophic phase shifts in many real-world systems. By combining these recent research findings with ancient wisdom we can come to understand the emerging technologies of neurofeedback training as direct implementation of Absolute Boddhicitta: ie, awakening to the “clear sky” of fundamental consciousness and compassion that is intrinsic to us all as conscious beings. This means that compassion and awakening are available to us all, directly; and we now have the technology available to make it more accessible than ever before. It also means that we can now come to understand the diversity or neurofeedback training processes as different “flowers” from the same root of fundamental consciousness. Buddhist psychology can provide the key concepts and overall framework from which to understand how and why neurofeedback works.
Post-Conference #94): Beginner’s Guide To NeuroCARE Pro: How To Get Up and Running Today! Learning to use a state of the art neurofeedback training system like NeuroCARE Pro® can seem daunting. One must understand how to work with computers while also interacting with a client who is hooked up and anticipating useful change in their life! NeuroCARE Pro is an advanced training system that is internally complex in its operation, but elegant, accessible and easy to use for the trainer. Based on both non-linear, dynamical control procedures and joint time-frequency analysis, NCP is a complete, cutting edge neurofeedback training system that works across the range of application for which neurofeedback training has been used. In this workshop you will learn how to use NCP to work with clients and how to use its various features to understand how the training process is unfolding.
Plenary #89): CARE® in the Real World The CARE® orientation remains unique in the field of neurofeedback training. Approaching the task of neurofeedback as a form of “cross aerobic” training for the CNS, it is based on a fundamental understanding of how to promote both resilience and flexibility, while minimizing turbulence and instability in the CNS, and the client's life. The name means "Comprehensive, Adaptive Renormalization of EEG” and indicates that there is a single, fundamental training paradigm that is used regardless of presenting complaint, context or reason for training to be done. Training is “diagnostically agnostic” – ie not tailored specifically by the practitioner due to any particular initial or ongoing assessment procedure – and self-adjusting, based on the client’s actual response within each session. Moreover, the approach recognizes that neurofeedback is a TRAINING process – not a form of therapy per se – even though therapeutic impacts and benefits may be obtained through its use. This unique approach to neurofeedback training requires a two channel system capable of providing a concurrent array of 16 bilaterally symmetric targets based on the outputs of parallel real-time, Adaptive Gabor Transforms. Currently the only system capable of providing this functionality is NeuroCARE Pro®. This panel will present the work of a number of practitioners who are using the CARE® approach in their practices and other applied settings. They will be sharing case reports of the applied work that they have done using NeuroCARE Pro®. Some areas of application that will be covered include: Co-presented by Molly Raaymakers
Plenary #191): How Can Non-localized Neurofeedback Training Work Without Being “Global”? There is as amazing diversity of models concerning how and why neurofeedback training works. Some models are very localized and are closely tied to considerations of the underlying neuroanatomical structure of the CNS. Some are based on the idea that certain centers or particular sites within the brain need very specific inputs to address problematic activity at that particular location, while others postulate that specific neuropsychological functions are optimally – or ONLY – addressed by particular, spatially localized interventions, . On the other end of the spectrum are approaches that are global. Some of these are based on theories involving shifting coherence measures or inducing modulations in connectivity patterns, whereas others have very different organizational principles. Some approaches seem to “bypass” this dichotomy and simply juxtapose various technologies until an observable training response occurs. One doesn’t need to accept only one end of that spectrum; however, as it is entirely possible to embrace the entire field within a single, overarching, comprehensive and adaptive approach to training. This presentation will discuss how CARE was developed in order to integrate the diaspora of all of the other approaches, and to do so in a thoroughly consistent and elegant approach to neurofeedback training. Elegant traiing relies on the intrinsic self-organinzing nature of both consciousness and the central nervous system – this presentation will explore these ideas and describe the overall framework, including measurement technologies that can be used to document many aspects of the changes brought about by neurofeedback training done in this way, as well as in most others.
Workshop #196): Using Non-Linear, Dynamical Measures of Change: Keeping Neurofeedback Training Safe and On Target The brain is a non-linear, dynamical (NLD) system; in fact, all of human psychophysiology is best understood in terms of NLD systems theory and control procedures, even though it is comprised of discernible time-frequency events.. This means that neurofeedback training is also non-linear and dynamical, and recognizing that can help us understand some of the pervasive confusions and disagreements in the field as a whole. We all know, for instance, that subtle changes in many training regimes can hold profound impacts for the client; and we also know that diagnosis, initial presentation and assessment frequently do not adequately predict the response to specific training approaches. It is also clear that very different training approaches can provide similar outcomes in many situations. The reality of this diversity of response to various ways of providing neurofeedback training is actually predicted by NLD control theory; and this means that we can use some of the tools developed for understanding NLD systems as a set of effective means to monitor and modify neurofeedback as it is occurring. In this workshop you will learn how to use two such specific tools to understand:
EEG Foundations Course #92): ZenX Modes and Self-Referencing, Self-Correcting Neurofeedback: The Complex Becomes Truly Simple to Use Prior incarnations of NeuroCARE Pro have involved up to 16 concurrent real-time targets that needed to be adjusted continually by the trainer to optimize the training environment for each client. Although clearly useful and powerful, the complexity of modulating that targeting process to the changing dynamics of the client proved rather challenging for some users, so a more elegant interface has been developed which reduces that process down to adjusting a single Multiplier value. Now the “difficulty” of each target is adjusted automatically by the program in response to a single “difficulty” factor that is sent dynamically by the trainer. Each target is adjusted appropriately based on its own time-frequency gradient. This new targeting process also eases the demands of using neurofeedback for self training. In line with this more elegant interface is a further refinement of the underlying CARE® approach -- one that now more closely approximates a "cross aerobic" training for the CNS. This development is reflected in the ZenX Modes, which are a sequence of different styles of training that closely follows the idea of:
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