Repair Your Brain w. Neurofeedback featuring Dr. John Silva (Ep 14)

This episode is all about technologies that help rewire the brain for optimization and recovery.

I'm joined by Dr. John Silva, DC. to discuss how he uses technologies like Quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) and neurofeedback to map and rewire the brain.

With this amazing technology, he has helped patients with a number of mental conditions including anxiety, depression, PTSD, and ADHD.

Dr. John also sees a lot of success using these tools with high performers such as professional athletes and CEO's.

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📼 Topics Discussed 📼

💎 QEEG

💎 Neurofeedback

💎 The value of practicing Functional neurology

💎 Why it's important to pay attention to subtle signs of mental insufficiency as it could be a sign of a bigger disorder like Alzheimer's                                                                                           

💎 Using QEEG and why it helps diagnose mental health disorders.

💎 Many mental health disorders seen on the QEEG are seen as lack of symmetry between brain hemispheres.

💎 The importance of examining coherence between hemispheres of the brain

💎 High frontal theta wave activity is typically seen as ADHD

💎 Normal brains show more beta waves in left hemisphere, alpha waves in the right.

💎 People prone to panic attacks are the opposite of normal brains with more alpha waves in the left and beta waves in the right hemispheres.

💎 Typical QEEG for Anxiety presents as elevated Beta brain wave activity. .

💎 Depression is dysregulation of Alpha brain waves

💎 A lot of people experience both anxiety and depression together

💎 Much of the emotional issues come from emotional traumas even if we don’t remember it.  Can pick this up on the QEEG.

💎 “Insults” to the brain.  Physical and emotional that affect us as adults

💎 Neuroplasticity allows us to rewire the brain

💎 Neurofeedback can help rewire the brain and harness the power neuroplasticity

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