BCIA Continuing Education Posts

Efforts to bolster cognitive abilities during normal ageing may be protective against neurocognitive disorders in older adults.

Heart rate variability is not a mistake in the system. It is a living signature of how the nervous system is regulating the heart in real-time.

Neural similarity measured when people were still near-strangers predicted who ended up socially closer in a real friendship network months later.

The brain wasn't just switching between networks. It was circulating through them in a consistent order.

Slow-paced contraction (SPC) training to increase HRV can also benefit from multichannel systems.

The brain's wiring passes through a series of turning points that divide the lifespan into five distinct phases.

Neurophysiological assessment serves not as an independent diagnostic tool but as a physiologically grounded framework for understanding how clients process information, regulate emotions, respond to stressors, and organize their behavior.

This case involves a 28-year-old male who presented with progressive irritability and explosive anger episodes that emerged following sequential trials of two antidepressants and subsequently a psychostimulant.

Pacemaker neurons cycle between quiet and active phases on their own, creating brief bursts of action potentials that can set the tempo for larger populations.

Dr. Paul Lehrer offered a masterclass in humility, collaboration, and the relentless pursuit of understanding how the body heals itself.

Walking just 5,000 to 7,500 steps a day could delay Alzheimer's symptoms by six years.

John Anderson and John Davis discuss learning processes and mindfulness in neurofeedback.

Clients can perform SPC correctly with minimal instruction.

Neurofeedback combines precise signal measurement with human learning.

A null result does not always mean that the independent variable (the factor manipulated by the researcher) does not affect on the dependent variable (the outcome being measured).

Slow-paced contraction (SPC) is an indispensable HRV training exercise because it provides a direct, rhythmic means of engaging the autonomic nervous system through gentle, coordinated muscle activity.

If you record enough EEGs, you eventually meet the benzodiazepine (BZD) signature. The patient looks calm, the tracing looks faster than usual, and the familiar posterior alpha rhythm feels washed out. That impression is not a mirage.

A comprehensive meta-analysis of 138 studies found that facial feedback does have a statistically significant effect on emotional experience, but the effect is small and highly variable.