BCIA Continuing Education Posts

The basal ganglia do not work as a switch that is either on or off, so treatment does not flip a broken circuit back into place; it shifts the balance of a system in which both pathways stay active. That is also a fair description of what neurofeedback does across 20 or 40 sessions. Set client expectations accordingly, and describe gains as graded and dose-dependent rather than as a repair.

Standardizing the eating state, recording what a client consumed and when, and interrogating high beta before training will immediately improve the quality of your data.

Neuroscience now describes a body built from overlapping networks, local control systems, secretory tissues, glia, immune cells, microbes, and organs that report upstream and sideways.

A missed diagnosis carries real costs, because clinicians may prescribe medications that worsen the very problem they are trying to treat.

The practitioner must be able to judge signal quality, distinguish state from trait, and recognize artifacts and normal variants.

From diagnosing epilepsy to powering brain-computer interfaces, the EEG has shaped more than a century of neuroscience and clinical medicine. The central questions are what we are actually measuring and how we make sense of the signal.

Training programs teach, rightly, that the outer brain layer drives language, planning, and voluntary reports. That does not settle where felt experience begins.

For many children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the central struggle is not simply paying attention but regulating thought and behavior.

When the person sitting across from you looks different from that sample, the diagnostic accuracy you learned about in training starts to drift.

Elite athletic performance is often explained not only by physical skill but also by how efficiently the brain controls movement. In precision sports such as shooting, even tiny variations in attention, motor control, or neural processing can determine whether a shot hits the center of the target or misses entirely.

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

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.

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

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