BCIA Continuing Education Posts

HRV is exquisitely sensitive to how, when, and under what conditions you measure it. Get the protocol wrong, and you will be chasing noise rather than signal.

Today, neuroscientists view single BAs as participating in multiple networks depending on the task at hand.

Your confidence in a conclusion should update as new evidence arrives, and the size of that update depends on how informative the evidence is.

The central discovery is that M1 is not simply a mosaic of body-part territories. Woven among those effector-specific zones (the patches that control the hand, the foot, the mouth) lies a second system called the somato-cognitive action network, or SCAN.

Scientists are now discovering that organs engage in a rich, multidirectional web of “crosstalk” that extends far beyond what nerves and hormones alone can account for.

György Buzsáki argued, with decades of evidence behind him, that brain rhythms are not passive reflections of "brain states" but functional organizing tools that help the brain coordinate large populations of neurons in time.

Neurofeedback training develops flexibility, resilience, and choice—skills that enhance any endeavor without altering personality or eliminating existing strengths.

Methamphetamine cues directly undermine response inhibition by activating brain networks that compete with self-control.

Neurofeedback outcomes improve when we stop treating feedback as “information” and start treating it as an engineered learning environment.

Connectivity effects were observed only when FB and ILF were delivered together.

Training individuals to self-regulate both autonomic activity and prefrontal blood oxygenation may enhance specific components of inhibitory control that rely on prefrontal circuitry.

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.