Alan Bachers, Ph.D.

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Alan Bachers, Ph.D.

• Neurofeedback Foundation
• 34 South Main Street
• Chagrin Falls, OH 44022
• 440-893-0750
• abachers_at_apk.net

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NEUROFEEDBACK

• Brain wave activity
• Controlled by the individual
• To promote Class Four Space

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NEUROFEEDBACK

• A training system in which brain wave activity,
  obtained by sensors on the scalp, is presented to
  an individual as a video display.
• When brain activity moves toward patterns of
  improved self-regulation, the display (often a
  video game) advances, slowing or stopping as
  brain activity regresses.

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• Well described patterns of optimal brain function
  are cultivated over sessions, accompanied by
  automatic diminution or elimination of pathology
  as the brain orchestrates its own improvements.
• Results are at least long-lasting, often
  permanent, and continue to advance after training.

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Pathology or Disease

• Computationally Reducible abnormal firing
  patterns of brainwaves diagnose known disease
  states epilepsy, depression, ADHD, brain
  injury, etc.
• Attractor spaces of disease originate through
  genetics, environmental, or experiential causes,
  occupy 16 of our Gross Domestic Product, and can
  be seen as Class 1,2,3 states.

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Pathology (cont.)

• Class 1,2,3 states
• 1. Die out (or host dies)
• 2. Endlessly repeat
• 3. Form patterns within patterns.
• These stand still, can be manipulated, numbers
  for which are standard Old Kind of Science.

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Some Class 1,2,3 applications of neurofeedback

• Alcoholism/addiction
• Anxiety/panic
• Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Attachment disorder
• Autism

• Brain injury
• Depression
• Epilepsy
• Parkinsons disease
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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While the field struggles to establish its
scientific credibility in the disease model,
those Class 1,2 3 applications will become
trivial as far more compelling results emerge in
all areas of maximizing human capacities.
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Producing Class Four Space

• Central nervous system (CNS) in a loop with
  itself in NF training gets to observe the initial
  condition of pathologic variation, which, if
  sufficiently large, interrupts feedback.
• Shifting attention to restart feedback terminates
  capture by pathologic attractor, creates new
  iteration, free of that particular attractor.

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Class Four Space (Cont.)

• Each return to an initial, attractor free state,
  increases the likelihood and ease of repeating
  that fresh start the next time an attractor space
  threatens to topple me into my pathologic history
  of class 1,2,3 vortices.
• In each neurofeedback session, hundreds, or even
  thousands of these new iterations eventually make
  the creation of class four, pathologic attractor
  free space, the default state of every day life.

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Class 4 EEG Space, Defined

• Maintenance of mean-of-the-median within 16
  frequency spaces gt80 of the time.
• Continual tightening of criteria at comfort level
  increases flexibility and resilience of CNS,
• Flexibility and resilience of CNS increases,
  lessening wobble and capture by Class 1,2,3
  pathologic attractor spaces.

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Hey, this is like Im defragging my brain.
Client quote
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Consequences of Cultivating Class Four EEG State

• Pathology drops out
• Others comment on changes they observe
• Things that were difficult become easier
• Interest in what is good for me increases
• Interest in what is not good for me wanes
• Instances of peak performance become more common
• Present and future orientation replaces focus on
  the past.

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Profound Consequences of Class Four EEG States

• Recontextification of past trauma
• Transformations in intellectual, emotional,
  physical, spiritual life
• Psychotherapy through the rear view mirror
• Major life achievements accomplished
• Breakthroughs into highest order of functioning.

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Class Four EEG Space Exhibits Computational
Irreducibility

• CNS takes off when and where we cant look from
  perspectives of class 1,2,3 tools
• Changes manifest as unintended and unexpected
  far-ranging improvements
• Return from CFS brings dissolution or elimination
  of Class 1,2,3 pathologic attractor space

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Class Four EEG Space Exhibits Computational
Equivalence

• Across all subjects (universal), outcomes remain
  idiosyncratic, and, beyond Class 1,2,3
  predictions, undecidable in any individual.

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The well prepared brain

• Having had enough preparation such that peak
  performances are relatively common
• Having had enough trauma, abuse, pain,
  maltreatment and ready to change
• Merely curious, willing to explore.

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Many people who show up to do neurofeedback can
expect to see about a two standard deviation
improvement on just about anything they care to
measure.
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Resources

• www.wikipedia.org
  Search word neurofeedback
• www.isnr.org International Society of Neuronal
  Regulation
• www.eegspectrum.com
• www.brianothmerfoundation.org
• www.zengar.com - presenter article

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Alan Bachers, Ph.D.

• Neurofeedback Foundation
• 34 South Main Street
• Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022
• 440-893-0750
• abachers_at_apk.net