The Sixth
Neurotherapy
Conference
November 7th - 9th, 2024 | Santa Barbara, CA
THE SCHOOL OF NEUROTHERAPY/THE LEADER IN NEUROTHERAPY EDUCATION
THE SCHOOL OF NEUROTHERAPY/THE LEADER IN NEUROTHERAPY EDUCATION
Our early bird special gives you $250 off of a full-price ticket. Get it now and save the date so you can join us to experience some of the top minds in neurotherapy— and to have some fun at the beach in one of the most spectacular locations in the world!
Welcome to the forefront for clinically-applied neuromodulation technology and computational neuroscience. If you are seeking to deepen your understanding of the brain, the mind, and the application of advanced neuromodulation modalities for your patients, clients, or experiments, you have arrived.
The sixth School of Neurotherapy conference builds on the success of preceding years. We welcome you each morning for breakfast and host two memorable parties (no jokes...truly memorable). A welcome reception overlooks the ocean, and the Saturday dinner party takes the cake, at a private estate among the oak trees.
All great minds are welcome.
The NeuroFam is comprised of neuroscientists, clinicians, neurofeedback professionals, medical professionals, doctors, scholars, and students who are keen to learn and advance their knowledge for the greater good. We thrive on collaboration, not competition. Join us this November 2024, in Santa Barbara.
Last year's showcased topics ranged from the consciousness to connectivity analysis, neurotransmitters to neuromarkers for medication and neuromodulation, and so much more! In 2024, we are thrilled to be welcoming some new and returning innovators, inventors, and researchers. We look forward to you joining us for three days of learning and collaboration.
Stay tuned for the full 2024 Line-up, including:
Jay Gunkelman, Yury Kropotov, Dirk DeRidder, Angelika & Mitch Sadar, Lynda Thompson, and Siegfried & Kurt Othmer, to name a few.
Presented by: Tiff Thompson
This presentation will focus on the king of brainwaves, alpha, that 8-12Hz sinusoidal rhythm that cheats its frequency parameters, unlike any other bandwidth. This rhythm is much more than meets the eye.
Presented by: Dirk DeRidder
Thalamocortical dysrhythmia is a unifying pathophysiological mechanism that defines multiple clinical disorders such as chronic pain, tinnitus, Parkinson's disease, depression and epilepsy, but also noted in ADHD, schizophrenia and OCD. It is characterized by a slowing of thalamocortical resting state alpha activity to theta frequencies.
Presented by: Ron Swatzyna
“Almost every human being who has experienced love and romance would agree that love is as much about joy as it is about anguish. Indeed, while romantic passion induces indescribable feelings of euphoria and tenderness when one’s love is returned, it can also trigger feelings of debilitating anxiety, despair and even rage when one’s love is not reciprocated.
Presented by: Laura Childers
This presentation will look at the mirror neuron network and extended neuron network as a way to improve empathy in couples and families who struggle with trauma and addiction. Evidenced based information will be presented to understand how trauma and addiction can disconnect pathways that allow for empathy.
Presented by: David Reynolds
The affective change in EEG, recorded before, after, and in real time, with Vectored Inertial Pelvic Mobilization (VIPM) will be presented in the context of Force and Frequency data profiles for the VIPM. The EEG data will be presented and discussed as a novel frontier for eliciting positive poly vagal modulation and regulation of sympathetic extensor muscle tone.
Presented by: Jay Gattis
Get the inside scoop on SPECT scans. Holding the benefits of a QEEG as a given, what does SPECT offer us? I'll explain in monotone how a SPECT is performed, what it is measuring, how the results are processed and presented, and what we know about how that relates to QEEG findings. I'll likely get passionate about the strengths and weaknesses of each neuroimaging methodology and their respective use cases.
Presented by: Jonathan Schooler
Subjective experience is typically conceptualized as a monologue, and yet it is commonplace to experience conflicting thoughts. In our model of consciousness, we assert that the mind is a dialogue, or debate, between different desires and unique interpretations of events.
Presented by: Yuri Kropotov
The lecture updates the attendees on the current state of the art in clinical applications of Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). Recent studies of the functional meaning of ERP components (MMN, P300, ERN, P3 NOGO) and their application for diagnosis and prognosis in clinical neuroscience are reviewed.
Presented by: Alan Macy
A story that starts with beauty and weaves its definition with emotional feeling, taste, the galvanic cell, electrophysiology, and the telephone. Lambert’s, Hume’s and Sulzer’s ideas about taste, pleasure and beauty have contributed to the origins of psychophysiological thought, and to the origins of electrophysiology. Methods developed by Galvani and Volta establish basis for the fields of electrophysiology and electrical telecommunications.
Presented by: Nick Dogris
Vagus nerve stimulation paired with tACS and tDCS cranial electrostimulation appears to impact heart rate variability and EEG positively in first responder populations (paramedics, nurses, EMTs, law enforcement, firefighters, and MDs).
Presented by: James Croall
Many great thinkers have asserted that love is the greatest force in the universe, the power that "makes the world a universe and the disintegrated mass a community." But what is it? Can we find it in the brain?
Presented by: Arnaud DeLorme
Arnaud Delorme will rst present recent research on connectivity analysis in EEG and the ROIconnect plugin of EEGLAB, which allow computing connectivity between regions of interest or independent components. Connectivity measures will involve granger causality and its derivative.
Presented by: Selen Atasoy
Harmonic patterns are ubiquitous in nature emerging in acoustics, optics, and electromagnetism as well as in biological processes such as morphogenesis. My research demonstrated that brain activity in awake, resting state is also follows stable harmonic wave patterns emerging on the anatomical connectivity of the human brain.
Presented by: Makoto Miyakoshi
Since the publication of the seminal work by Canolty et al. (2006), cross-frequency coupling analyses have become a part of standard practice in EEG analysis. During this lecture, I will first review physiological mechanism of the cross-frequency coupling phenomena, and review various types of its manifestation.
Presented by: Mary Tracy and Ron Swatzyna
The sole reason that an individual would normally receive a referral to a hospital or a neurologist for epilepsy screening is if they have had a motor seizure. However, it is not uncommon for qEEG professionals to detect isolated (silent) epileptiform discharges during routine EEG assessments in the absence of a history of motor seizures.
Presented by: John Lemay
This session is intended for clinicians at all levels, and is focused on the interpretation of the ERP data output through the lens of attention cycle. The ERP will be linked to behavioral characteristics.
Presented by: Jay Gunkelman
Paroxysms and epileptiform activity are obviously seen in epilepsy, and can be treated effectively with neurofeedback. The incidence of unexpected discharges in clinical cases without epilepsy is really quite surprising to those not familiar with the literature, where 20% or ADHD and 40-60% of autistics have classical discharges.
We were fortunate to have this all-star line-up at last year’s conference, including: the founder of the country's largest bio-medical companies: BioPac; the “Grand Dame” of neurofeedback; a mad scientist or two; a master and inventor of light therapy; the inventor of NeuroField and rock n' roll bad boy; an international leader in the interpretation of EEG; a pediatric neurologist and master pianist; a professor who is head of UCSB’s META lab; other specialists, clinicians, doctors of all types, scientists, academics, and inventors.
2024 will present another all-star line-up of world-class speakers, including:
Jay Gunkelman, Yury Kropotov, Dirk DeRidder, Angelika & Mitch Sadar, Lynda Thompson, and Siegfried Othmer, to name a few.
Ronald J. Swatzyna, PhD received his MSSW and PhD in Social Work from The University of Texas, Arlington. Currently, he is the Director/Chief Scientist of Houston Neuroscience Brain Center and Founder of Clinical NeuroAnalytics.
Dr. Arnaud Delorme is a faculty at Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, and at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Delorme is the main software architect of the free EEGLAB academic software package for advanced analysis of EEG signals (now the most popular software for EEG analysis).
Yuri Kropotov is a well-known researcher in the field of EEG (electroencephalography) biofeedback. He is the founder of the Institute of Medical Psychology in Moscow, which focuses on the development of new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders based on EEG and neurofeedback principles.
Makoto Miyakoshi is a computational neuroscientist and the founder of GYREE, a San Diego-based company that provides services focused on electroencephalogram (EEG) analyses, software development in Matlab, and consultation for related topics. He has a PhD in experimental psychology from the University of California San Diego, where he has been working since 2011.
Jay Gunkelman is recognized as one of the top leaders in the field of EEG and QEEG, and has processed over 500,000 EEGs since 1972. He has conducted, published or participated in hundreds of research papers, articles, books and meetings internationally.
Selen Atasoy earned her Ph.D. in medical imaging from both the Technical University of Munich and Imperial College London. Afterward, she held a postdoctoral research position at the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, where she began delving into experimental and computational neuroscience to investigate the neural correlates of consciousness.
In neurostimulation, we are retraining the pathological brainwave patterns (like amplitude and connectivity) by using a customized blend of pulsed Electromagnetic Field stimulation and various modalities of transcranial current stimulation (tACS, tDCS, tRNS) in order to influence the brain in the direction appropriate for the condition at hand.
Neurotherapy is the combination of neurofeedback and neurostimulation (like pulsed Electromagnetic Field (pEMF), Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS), transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), and transcranial Random Noise Stimulation (tRNS)).
An EEG and Quantitative EEG assessment process involves a series of applications where a clinician images and studies the brain, from the inside out, looking at connections, power, and functionality, to fully understand the nature of a patient's concern or interest. This conference will cover not only EEG and QEEG assessments, but also advanced quantitative techniques and platforms, such as ICA, MATLAB, and EEG Info.