BCIA Continuing Education Posts

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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).

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 global drop in amplitude suggests either a disruption in metabolic support—such as mitochondrial failure—or widespread cortical inhibition.

The identification of the FOXP4 variant marked a turning point in the case formulation, shifting the clinical emphasis toward genomics, mitochondrial assessment, and integrative medicine.

We wish clinicians—particularly those interpreting pediatric EEGs—understood that alpha squeaks are normal, age-appropriate findings that reflect an active but immature visual-cortical network.